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The eight-month-old State of Israel last week reached a new plane of political maturity. Yesterday Israel was officially recognized by four Western Union nations -- Britain and the three Benelux countries. Earlier in the week France, Australia and Switzerland took similar action.
FSA plans for collecting proposed old-age ins tax
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 29 -- Miss Marjorie Lindsay of Decatur, Ill., stroked her way into the final round of the seventeenth annual Helen Lee Doherty women's amateur golf tournament today and will meet Miss Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta for the title.
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1949Peter Agre, American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Peter Agre is a Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.