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FRESNO, California (Reuters) - Republican John McCain said on Monday if elected president he would challenge American experts to develop a futuristic battery to power cars and win a $300 million prize. McCain, a week after taking heat from Democrats for reversing his stance on offshore oil drilling after long opposing it, sought to portray himself as a forward-looking leader on solving America's energy crisis. With Americans reeling from record-high $4-a-gallon gasoline during the prime summer driving season, both McCain and his Democratic opponent in the November election, Barack Obama, are pressing their proposals for tackling energy problems that are...

A Muslim asylum seeker lost out on an award for volunteer work after indicating that he would not shake hands with the woman who was to present him with the prize. Alinoor Ahmed Sheikh, a Somali based in an asylum hostel in Tralee, was to have been honoured for his work raising funds for Amnesty International at a ceremony last Thursday organised by the Africa Centre in Dublin. The event was designed to highlight the positive work done by refugees and asylum seekers in Irish communities. Five minutes before Benedicta Attoh, a member of the National Consultative Committee on Racism...

New startups hoping to make their mark on the space industry still face high entry barriers just to cover their initial costs, investors said Wednesday. (snip) "I am passionately committed to prizes," Gingrich said. "The great power of prizes is simple; they allow anybody anywhere who's competent to try and solve a problem."

OSLO (SATIRENEWSERVICE) -- Responding to overwhelming pressure from every civilized person on earth with any semblance of intelligence, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee today announced that it had voted to terminate its charter. Just prior to the unanimous vote, the Committee voted to rescind numerous past prizes - including the 2007 prize to itinerant comedian and performance artist Albert Gore of the United States - and award those prizes and all future prizes to the United States military. "This about face by the Nobel Peace Committee," stated former Committee Chairman and former leader of the Norwegian Labor Party, Trygve Andreesen,...

'Mr White Man's Time' wins punctuality prize By Mike Pflanz, West Africa Correspondent Last Updated: 2:30am BST 09/10/2007 Narcisse Aka won a £30,000 villa A competition to reward punctuality in a region notorious for lateness has been won by a legal adviser known as "Mr White Man's Time". Narcisse Aka, 40, was picked as the most consistently punctual person in Ivory Coast, a country with the chronic "sociological problem" of missed appointments and delays. Appointment times are regarded as purely advisory in many of the humid coastal regions of West Africa. This is damaging productivity, said the organisers of the...

The Lunar Robotics Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be staying put, at least for another six years at $20 million a year. The office was originally slated for closure by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin as part of a cost-cutting move. Unfortunately, Griffin did not reckon on the wrath of Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama's senior senator. Shelby balked at the closure and, working with other senators and representatives of both parties, successfully prevented it. The office is currently managing the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, which is scheduled to...

LONDON (AFP) - Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan was named as the chairman of the six-person committee that will judge the world's biggest prize on Sunday, awarded to departing African statesmen for promoting good governance. Annan will be joined on the committee for the annual Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership by the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari, former UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson, and the Special Adviser to the Director-General of UNESCO, Aicha Bah Diallo. Also on the committee are Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance and foreign minister of Nigeria, and...

The U.S. and other modern capitalist economies rely on a handful of approaches to stimulate innovation. Big corporate research-and-development shops invest shareholders' money in the search for future profit. Small entrepreneurial start-ups do the same with venture capital. Academics toil in big universities, sometimes for profit, sometimes for glory. Open-source software wizards mend and tend shared software that no one owns, the high-tech equivalent of a barn-raising. Government steps in where private money fears to tread. Now, a proliferation of prizes is attracting bright minds to stubborn problems. InnoCentive, a company spun off six years ago by drug maker Eli...

The Space Exploration Alliance, the Space Frontier Foundation, and the X Prize Foundation have come together to call on Congress to support and expand Centennial Challenges, NASA's space prize program. Created with an appropriation of just under $10 million in FY2005, Centennial Challenges is currently returning highly leveraged and efficient research, development, and engineering benefits to NASA at extremely low costs – and stands ready to accomplish even loftier goals if given additional funding. Unfortunately, although the House of Representatives voted to support the program in 2007, such funding was zeroed out in the 2007 Senate appropriations bill for NASA....

The 2006 Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to Professor Edmund Phelps of Columbia University for his work in the late 1960s overturning the conventional wisdom on the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it had awarded the economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel to Prof Phelps “for his analysis of the intertemporal trade-offs in macroeconomic policy”. It is the second time the academy has awarded the prize to a fierce critic of post-war Keynesian macroeconomic policy. Milton Friedman, the grandfather of monetarism, won the prize in 1976. After the second world...

"The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to the American Roger Kornberg, a professor at Stanford University in California. The prize was given to Prof Kornberg for his work on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription in cells. Transcription is an important step in the process by which cells build proteins from DNA." "Roger Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of transcription at the molecular level, in eukaryotes, the category of organisms which includes animals, plants, fungi and simple microscopic organisms called protists. His studies on transcription described how information is taken from genes and converted...

Maths genius declines top prize Photos of the reclusive genius are rare Grigory Perelman, the Russian who seems to have solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics, has declined one of the discipline's top awards. Dr Perelman was to have been presented with the prestigious Fields Medal by King Juan Carlos of Spain, at a ceremony in Madrid on Tuesday. In 2002, the mathematician claimed to have solved a century-old problem called the Poincare Conjecture. So far, experts working to verify his proof have found no significant flaws. There had been considerable speculation that Grigory "Grisha" Perelman would...

Grigory Perelman a no-show for his Fields Medal.Four mathematicians were today due to collect gold medals and glory in Madrid, Spain, having been declared winners of the 2006 Fields Medals — referred to as the 'Nobel prizes' of mathematics. But only three turned up. Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician who was widely expected to be one of this year's winners (see 'Maths 'Nobel' rumoured for Russian recluse'), was indeed honoured at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians. But after a round of applause, president of the International Mathematical Union John Ball said "I regret that Dr...

World's top maths genius jobless and living with mother By Nadejda Lobastova in St Petersburg and Michael Hirst (Filed: 20/08/2006) A maths genius who won fame last week for apparently spurning a million-dollar prize is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her �’30-a-month pension, because he has been unemployed since December.   Grigory 'Grisha' Perelman The Sunday Telegraph tracked down the eccentric recluse who stunned the maths world when he solved a century-old puzzle known as the Poincare Conjecture. Grigory "Grisha" Perelman's predicament stems from an acrimonious split with a leading Russian mathematical...

Here Are Pulitzer Prize Winners, Announced Monday By Joe Strupp Published: April 17, 2006 3:05 PM ET NEW YORK The New York Times and The Washington Post were the top winners as this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced at Columbia University shortly after 3 p.m. ET on Monday afternoon. In an unusual event, there were two winners in two categories, including the coveted Public Service slot -- shared by the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. The Post won four prizes and the Times won three. The Times-Picayune had not been named one...

(snip) Until recently, the chances that a college senior like Mr. Jones would contribute to the NASA space program were remote. Contracts belonged mostly to the Boeings of the world. Tinkerers and students were kept at the far edge of the periphery. But with budgets tightening and the obstacles to human space exploration looking more daunting, NASA is enlisting the expertise of outsiders. For example, the agency is offering 13 contests, which it calls Centennial Challenges, that anyone can enter. The prizes range from $200,000 to more than $5 million, for building gear as diverse as solar sails, lunar excavators...

BERKELEY – Owen Chamberlain, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics as co-discoverer of the antiproton, has died at age 85. Chamberlain, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, died Tuesday at his Berkeley home from complications of Parkinson's disease, campus officials said Wednesday. Chamberlain and Berkeley physicist Emilio Segre shared the Nobel Prize in 1959 for discovering the antiproton, which is the opposite counterpart to the positively charged proton. “The discovery opened up a whole new field of physics and expanded our understanding of particle physics,” Chamberlain's colleague and former student Herbert Steiner, a professor...

For the fifth year in a row, a Bay Area philosophy professor has nominated condemned inmate Stanley Tookie Williams for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the Crips founder's postconviction writings and other efforts to keep youths from joining gangs. "He's a peacemaker because his message has connected with thousands upon thousands of people," said Philip Gasper, who chairs the philosophy and religion department at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. "Mr. Williams' voice has a resonance and a credibility with children." If his conversion to anti-gang advocacy "is a ruse, it's a ruse that has had a wonderful effect,"...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - British playwright Harold Pinter, a master of sparse dialogue and menacing silences who has been an outspoken critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, was the surprise winner of the Nobel literature prize on Thursday. The 75-year-old Londoner, son of a Jewish dressmaker, is one of Britain's best-known dramatists for plays like "The Birthday Party" and "The Caretaker," whose mundane dialogue with sinister undercurrents gave rise to the adjective "Pinteresque." An intimidating presence with bushy eyebrows and a rich voice, he was described by Swedish Academy head Horace Engdahl, who announced the prize, as "the towering figure"...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling have won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The pair won the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday. Through their work, Aumann, 75, and Schelling, 84, have helped to "explain economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources," the academy said in its citation. "The repeated-games approach clarifies the raison d'etre of...

Stanley, the Volkswagen Touareg that won a $2 million desert road race all on its own — in a sense — bears a logo that plays off its manufacturer’s slogan. “Drivers not required.” The robotic SUV finished first in a 132-mile trek across the rugged and twisting Nevada desert, in what may be an early step toward getting vehicles to do their own driving for everything from war-zone supply missions to morning commutes.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior hardline Iranian cleric said on Friday Iran was strong enough to withstand possible sanctions over its nuclear ambitions, as thousands rallied in support of the country's right to a peaceful atomic programme. Officials declined to comment on the award on Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its head Mohamed ElBaradei. But a source close to the government said awarding the prize to the body that had been investigating Iran's nuclear programme for three years was a "political move directed at Iran." The head of the powerful Guardian...

OSLO, Norway - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their drive to curb the spread of atomic weapons by using diplomacy to resolve standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs. The Nobel Committee's decision lent support to negotiations and inspections, not military action, as the best way to handle volatile nations. It also was seen as a message to the Bush administration, which invaded Iraq after claiming U.N. efforts to eradicate Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions had failed and which opposed ElBaradei's appointment to another term. The...

LOS ANGELES, CA, United States (UPI) -- An embarrassed CBS apologized for re-broadcasting an episode of 'The Price is Right' that offered a New Orleans vacation as a prize. The contestant did not win the 'showcase' vacation on the show that originally aired in December and mortified CBS executives yanked the rerun before it aired on the West Coast Thursday, the New York Daily News reported Friday. The network released a statement saying: 'Trips to New Orleans are frequently offered as travel prizes on `The Price Is Right.` Out of consideration for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, we made every...

July 31 marks the 93rd birthday of the world's foremost living economist, Milton Friedman. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Medal of Science, Friedman advances the principles of individual choice by popularizing ideas that include school vouchers and private retirement accounts. Through essays, speeches, and books such as Capitalism and Freedom, and Free to Choose, Friedman champions the ideas of liberty. "Milton Friedman has done more than defend freedom as an abstract ideal," President George W. Bush recently said, "He has creatively applied the power of freedom to the...

One winner of a recent American Airlines contest says he would have been better off losing. The contest, launched as part of the airline's We Know Why You Fly marketing campaign, awarded free tickets to travelers submitting the best videos, essays or photographs about their flying experiences. The grand prize winners were offered 12 round-trip restricted coach tickets for two from the U.S. to anywhere in the world American flies. In exchange, American has the right to use the winning materials for promotional purposes. The contest's fine print explains that winners must pay federal and state income taxes, where applicable,...

JUNE 23--A Kentucky woman who thought she won $100,000 in a radio station giveaway is suing for breach of contract after learning that her prize was actually a Nestle's 100 Grand candy bar. According to the below June 22 Circuit Court complaint, Norreasha Gill, 28, claims that she was listening to Lexington's WLTO-FM on the evening of May 25 when host DJ Slick announced that he would award "100 Grand" to the tenth caller. When Gill, the pregnant mother of three children, was that tenth caller, the radio host told her she could pick up her prize the following day...

Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Fred. Brevity is not only the soul of wit and the essence of lingerie, it is, in moments like this, when you stand between an audience and strong drink, mandatory. But let me just say this. If I were empowered to design the perfect day, this would just about be it. It began in Mesa, Arizona today at HoHoKam Park with five beautiful words: “Cubs pitchers and catchers report.” And it concludes with the privilege of sharing the stage with Ward Connerly, Robert George and Heather Mac Donald. Ward mentioned his family in his remarks....

It was about two years ago when I was talking to my friend Tony Blankley of the Washington Times and Fox News, and commented that someday George Bush’s greatness as a president would be compared to Ronald Reagan’s. Tony’s response floored me: “You know, Jack, someday it might be the other way around.” The trifecta of the last two weeks – the Second Inaugural Address, the elections in Iraq, the State of the Union – provide an undeniable demonstration of Tony’s prescience. Yet next December 10 in Oslo, Norway, there will be another undeniable demonstration – this one of undiluted...

Mike Gold is corporate counsel of Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow Aerospace is a privately-held company Las Vegas, Nevada company that is investing up to $500 million in the development of inflatable habitats and $50 million in the America The Space Review: What is Bigelow Aerospace’s (BA’s) dream for space? Mike Gold: Our dream and goal is to create a vibrant, dynamic, thriving marketplace in space. TSR: What is your role at BA? Gold: I wear many hats at BA, which is a good thing since my hairline recedes a bit more each day. As Corporate Counsel I of course handle many...

There is much talk of post-election reorganization and rethinking among demoralized liberals, especially in matters of foreign policy. They could start by accepting that the demise of many of their cherished beliefs and institutions was not the fault of others. More often, the problems are fundamental flaws in their own thinking — such as the ends of good intentions justifying the means of expediency and untruth, and forced equality being a higher moral good than individual liberty and freedom. Whether we call such notions “political correctness” or “progressivism,” the practice of privileging race, class, and gender over basic ethical considerations...

Enter for a chance to win the grand prize of a suborbital space flight -- a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel 62 miles above the surface and look down at the brilliant curvature of the Earth. Participate in the birth of the commercial space travel industry and inspire future generations of explorers. Simply fill out the online registration form, then launch a tutorial and answer a quiz to complete your sweepstakes entry. See the Official Rules and the Prize Details for more information, including restrictions and additional prizes.

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New X Prize Sets Sights on Science, Technology and Social Solutions By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 07 October 2004 04:52 pm ET The X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network announced today the formation of a joint venture to launch a series of technology incentive prizes to help spur innovation and breakthroughs in a range of scientific arenas. The creation of new X Prize awards follows the success of the twin SpaceShipOne flights that snagged the $10 million Ansari X Prize purse. However, these are focused on other arenas, such as medicine, environment, energy, nanotechnology, and...

Nobel Committee meets to pick Peace Prize winner -- ElBaradei favorite Sep 21, 2004 OSLO (AFP) - The Nobel Committee kept mum on its choice for the 2004 Peace Prize after a final meeting to pick a winner, although the International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei have been tipped as the most likely winners. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee reached its decision today and that decision will be announced on October 8," at 0900 GMT at the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, secretary of the five-member committee, told AFP. Observers have said they expect the committee this year to...

Eddie Adams: Photojournalist won Pulitzer for Vietnam execution picture 08:34 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004 - Associated Press NEW YORK – Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame – a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War – died Sunday. He was 71. [Adam's] ...fame resulted from a single photo taken Feb. 1, 1968, the second day of the communists' Tet Offensive, in the embattled streets of Cholon, Saigon's Chinese quarter. Drawn by gunfire, Mr. Adams and an...

ESPOO, Finland - The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest of its kind, and was awarded for the first time. It was established in 2002 and backed by the Finnish government. Berners-Lee is recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web while working for the CERN (news - web sites) Laboratory in the early 1990s, the European center for nuclear research near Geneva, Switzerland. His graphical point-and-click browser, "WorldWideWeb," was the first...

Overview and Goals for Centennial Challenges . What Is Centennial Challenges? - Program of contests in which NASA will establish prize purses to stimulate innovation and competition in technical areas of interest to space exploration and ongoing NASA priorities. . Program Goals for Centennial Challenges - Stimulate innovation in ways that standard federal procurements cannot - Enrich NASA research by reaching new communities - Help address technology pitfalls - Achieve returns that outweigh program investment - Educate, inspire and motivate the public "Prehistory" of Centennial Challenges . Long History of Prizes for Technological Innovation - 18th Century: British Longitude Prize...

Teams of scientists, engineers and students from across the United States are gearing up for what may be the most unique land race in the country; a contest run by robots vying to be the first vehicle to reach Las Vegas and win $1 million for its builders. The race, known as the Grand Challenge, is the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and aimed at boosting the development of autonomous vehicles that could find uses in the American military. Out of an original 86 applicants, 25 were selected by DARPA officials to run the race, with...

Testimony of Courtney Stadd given at a field hearing on "President's New Space Vision" Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation Given at a Science, Technology, and Space Field Hearing - President's New Space Vision Wednesday, February 18 2004 - 9:30 AM - The Testimony of Mr. Courtney Stadd President, Capitol Solutions Mr. Chairman, and members of the Committee, I greatly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this hearing regarding the President's newly announced space policy and especially to discuss the prospects for private sector interest in space-related activities, including launch vehicle development and the International Space Station. I would...

US firms close to £5m space race prize Two US firms are closing in on a £5.5 million prize to achieve the first privately-funded manned spaceflight. The companies are already so near to making the breakthrough that they have applied for licences from the US government. The teams are among 27 from around the world, including three from Britain, taking part in a X Prize competition. To win, a spacecraft capable of holding three people must reach an altitude of 62 miles above Earth. Commercial jets fly at less that seven miles high. If the same spacecraft makes a second...

<p>It reflects the new policy that the president announced a couple weeks ago, and Keith Cowing, of NASA Watch, has spared us from having to plow through the turgid document ourselves, and interpreted it in that context.</p> <p>As Keith points out, the budget increases for the first few years are modest, but they are real, and NASA, having been now told that the shuttle will no longer be available a decade from now, can truly focus on new things with the funding available. The agency budget will slowly grow to almost $20 billion dollars by the end of a second Bush term (should that occur), but given the dramatic growth of the federal budget in this administration, it will remain less than its historical one percent of the total, which this year will exceed two trillion dollars.</p>

A heads-up play by a clerk with a finely tuned memory turned Charles Ledesma's moment of Super Bowl glory into a major upset. On Friday morning, Ledesma won a big-screen TV, two reclining chairs and take-out steak dinners for 20. That was the grand prize in a local radio station's "Ultimate Super Bowl Party" contest. Within an hour of Ledesma's triumph, Ingham County Friend of the Court officials, tipped off by a clerk in that office, confiscated the nonperishable portion of Ledesma's windfall to help pay more than $21,000 in back child support. "He was mad; he was hot," said...

Howard praises Bush, Blair 02feb04 US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who've been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, have helped make the world safer, Prime Minister John Howard said today. "I believe both of them made a strong contribution to producing in the longer run a safer world," Mr Howard told journalists in Perth. "I am absolutely unconditional in my continued support for what they did, I have a great respect for both of them." Bush and Blair were nominated for the prize yesterday by independent right wing Norwegian MP Jan Simonsen. However being...

Taking bets - Gaddafi wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. Makes a speech in which he credits Al Gore for his change of heart.

"A NOBLE WOMAN CARRIES TORCH FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN" By AMIR TAHERI, WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE October 13, 2003 Khaleh Shirin bord! (Auntie Shirin has won!). Iranian university students were spreading this message by telephone, the Internet and in slogans on the walls of Tehran after Persian-language broadcasts from London and Washington on Friday announced that Shirin Ebadi got the Nobel Peace Prize. Iran's pro-democracy movement, now going through a rough patch, couldn't have hoped for better news. Mrs. Ebadi, a 56-year old lawyer and human-rights campaigner, is one of their own. She immediately used the platform given her by...

Pope mooted for Nobel Peace Prize October 9, 2003 - 12:05PM Speculation is growing in Italy that this year's Nobel Peace Prize will go to Pope John Paul II in recognition of his steadfast opposition to the US-led war on Iraq. The committee has rarely awarded the prize to a religious figure although Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984 and the 1989 winner, the Dalai Lama, are notable exceptions in the 102-year history of the award. Italy's premier daily Corriere della Sera devoted half a page to an article outlining several reasons why the ailing...

Republicans far from 'grand prize' By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 09 October 2003 America's four most populous states - California, Texas, New York and Florida - all now have Republican governors. But that does not mean that California, the biggest presidential prize of all with 55 electoral college votes, is about to swing behind George W Bush. For one thing, the party of a governor is no guide to presidential voting in his state. New York, Maryland and Massachusetts all have Republican governors but are three of the most reliable Democratic strongholds. Conversely Virginia, Republican in every presidential election since...

The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades. Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I >>SNIPPED>> "I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s....

The Trustees of the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust announce the establishment of The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Accomplishments in Commercial Space Activities The Heinlein Prize is a cash award of $500,000 to an individual or individuals for practical accomplishments in the field of commercial space activities. The establishment of the Heinlein Prize and details of its application process will be announced at the 54th International Astronautics Federation Congress in Bremen, Germany on Monday, September 29, 2003. A press release will be available at that time and will be posted on this website. The Trustees invite...