Dec 11th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama is said to have chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to be Energy secretary. Chu was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 for work in cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.
Nov 24th, 2008 · British Finance Minister Alistair Darling has unveiled a $430 billion package of measures intended to stimulate the flagging U.K. economy, suspending rules that have kept government borrowing in check since the ruling Labour Party came to power in 1997.
Oct 13th, 2008 · Economists Robert Merton and Myron Scholes won the 1997 Nobel Prize in economics. Their formula for evaluating stock options laid the ground work for risk-management in modern financial markets. Naseem Taleb, a professor at New York University and hedge fund owner, wants their prize revoked. Taleb talks with Renee Montage about why.
Sep 20th, 2008 · Graduates of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College are gathering for a reunion at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisc. Murray Horwitz, a graduate of the Clown College, which operated from 1968 to 1997, talks with Scott Simon about what clowns do for fun.
Sep 15th, 2008 · The novelist and essayist was found dead in his home Sept. 12, reportedly a suicide. Fresh Air remembers him with an interview first aired in 1997, the year he won the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant.
Aug 10th, 2008 · In 1997, Obama told top adviser Dan Shomon that he had never been south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Shomon told Obama that they should take a road trip to southern Illinois — which they did. They then went to the rural southern reaches of the state, and by both accounts, the trip changed how Obama saw himself in relation to rural whites. This informed his 2004 race, and has clear implications for how he has constructed his presidential campaign. Ben Calhoun reports from Chicago Public Radio.
Apr 24th, 2008 · Bill Clinton Okumu, an 11-year-old living in a Nairobi slum, wants to lead Kenya when he grows up. His mother, who picked out the name for her third child in 1997, just wanted to associate herself with the American president, her husband says.
Apr 8th, 2008 · A British jury reached a decision in the 1997 death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi al-Fayed. The coroners jury spent six months hearing evidence from more than 250 witnesses and finally decided whom to blame for the deaths: the chauffeur and the paparazzi.