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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93. Ginzburg won the 2003 Nobel physics prize for developing the theory behind superconductors, materials which allow electricity to pass without resistance at very low temperatures. He shared the prize with British-American Anthony Leggett and Russian-born U.S. scientist Alexei Abrikosov. But Ginzburg's career as a Soviet scientist almost ended when he took as his second wife a woman arrested in...

O'Connor: U.S. must rely on foreign law Justice says, 'The impressions we create in this world are important' Posted: October 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com American courts need to pay more attention to international legal decisions to help create a more favorable impression abroad, said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at an awards dinner in Atlanta. "The impressions we create in this world are important, and they can leave their mark," O'Connor said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The 73-year-old justice and some of her high court colleagues have made similar appeals to foreign law,...

Atty.-General Rubinstein has decided to charge Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg with incitement to racism. Ginzburg, the former head of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Shechem, wrote a book two years ago in which he allegedly made inflammatory claims regarding Jews and Arabs. A letter from the State Prosecutor's office invited the rabbi, to discuss the charges that may be leveled against him. Before the rabbi responded to the letter, the Ministry of Justice, under Minister Yosef Lapid (Shinui), leaked to the press that Rabbi Ginzburg was to be charged with incitement. Rabbi Ginzburg's attorney Wertzburger, questioned the timing of the...

PARIS, July 19 (AFP) - Renowned Soviet dissident Alexander Ginzburg died in his adopted city of Paris on Friday after years of ill health brought on by his time in forced labour camps. He was 65. One of the founders of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union, Ginzburg had close ties with other major dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He spent around nine years of his life in Soviet prisons and forced labour camps -- where, he once told a judge, he had truly been born. "He was a talented journalist, the drama of...