Breakthrough Prizes in science, math earn winners $3 million each

November 10, 2014 0
Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner speaks while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on at the Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize announcement in San Francisco

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Academia doesn’t usually bring rich financial rewards. But that changed Sunday for recipients of a record 12 Breakthrough Prizes, the award created two years ago by Russian billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Milner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other tech industry luminaries. Each prize is worth $3 million, almost three times the cash a Nobel Prize winner receives. This year is the first to honor mathematicians. Five won for work ranging from algebraic geometry to analytic number theory. …

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Legal battle involving Rolling Stones reaches Utah

November 10, 2014 0

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Insurance underwriters involved in a legal battle with the Rolling Stones over a $12.7 million claim have won permission to seek evidence in Utah about the mental health of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend before she took her life in March.

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Chokers back in fashion

November 9, 2014 0

Los Angeles, Nov 9 (IANS) A statement accessory can add instant glamour. Try a choker to jazz up your overall look.

Oscar in hand, Harry Belafonte exhorts Hollywood on human rights

November 9, 2014 0
Honoree singer and social activist Harry Belafonte speaks after receiving the Oscar statuette for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Awards in Los Angeles

By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Octogenarian actor and singer Harry Belafonte, accepting a top Hollywood human rights award, asked fellow artists and the entertainment industry to use their powerful platform to show the better side of humanity. Before a star-studded audience and next to a long-time friend, actor Sidney Poitier, the 87-year-old Belafonte received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his lifelong fight for civil rights and humanitarian causes. …