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Al Gore, Nobel laureate, former vice president of the United States and author of the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will deliver the opening address at a conference on "Renewable Energy and Beyond," scheduled to be held at Tel Aviv University May 20-21, the university said Sunday. Gore will be arriving on a special visit to Israel as guest of the Dan David Prize. The 2008 Dan David Prize will be awarded to Gore on May 19 for social commitment to environmental protection and the prevention of a global ecological disaster, a statement from the university read. Tel Aviv...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Pakistani national who falsely told U.S. immigration authorities that he was a Nobel Prize nominee has been deported from the Bay Area, federal immigration officials said today. Shehrezad Faruk Czar, 38, pleaded guilty in September to providing false information on his visa application, according to court records. As part of his plea, he agreed to be deported to Pakistan and waived his right to a hearing before an immigration judge, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Czar arrived in Pakistan on a commercial flight Saturday, immigration officials said. Czar, who had been in...

SAN FRANCISCO - A condemned US inmate who turned from a gang leader to an anti-gang advocate behind bars has been nominated for the 2006 Nobel peace prize, the college professor behind the nomination said. Professor Philip Gasper of Notre Dame de Namur University in California has nominated convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams for the prize five years in a row, according to Alice Kim of the Campaign to Stop the Death Penalty. A Swiss parliamentarian was the first to recommend Williams for the prize, Kim said. "I respect him for his willingness to be public with his stand against...

Wednesday 05 October 2005, 11:41 Makka Time, 8:41 GMTThe awards are presented by genuine Nobel winners​ ​​​​It is difficult to judge exactly where the scientific world would be without Professor Bernard Vonnegut's seminal 1975 study on Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed. What is clear is that Vonnegut's groundbreaking research may have languished in undeserved obscurity but for Marc Abrahams, founder of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes for scientific achievement that "cannot or should not be reproduced". A prestigious gathering of genuine Nobel laureates will help present the awards at the 15th Ig Nobel ceremony to be...

Just watching the broadcast.

Researchers who found a link between country music and suicide, and a man who patented his combover hairstyle have won IgNobel Awards for true but funny experiments. Other prizes went to a soft drink maker that bottled Thames River water in London and sold it as a designer drink, and to a woman who investigated the "five-second rule", according to which if food falls to the floor for fewer than five seconds, it is safe to eat. The annual awards, presented at Harvard University in Massachusetts by the publishers of the Annals of Improbable Research, are a spoof of the...

Researchers who found a link between country music and suicide, and a man who patented his comb-over hairstyle have won IgNobel Awards for true but funny experiments. Other prizes went to a soft drink maker that bottled Thames River water in London and sold it as a designer drink, and to a woman who investigated the "5-second rule", according to which if food falls to the floor for fewer than 5 seconds, it is safe to eat. The annual awards, presented at Harvard University in Massachusetts by the publishers of the Annals of Improbable Research on Thursday, are a spoof...