 "Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Nobel laureates' meet is soul-searching time for India.
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Byline: Prakash Chandra
Dec. 18--ALLAHABAD -- As 12 Nobel laureates from across the world, along with a galaxy of other renowned scientists, gathered at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) campus here on the second day of their week long conference, one question bothered many of the Indian delegates: why has India failed to produce a sufficiently large crop of Nobel prize winners? "Though our educational system is second to none, we still lack something," said V.P. Kumar who heads the International Science and Technology Cooperation division of ...
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Analysis: John Wesley Powell's vison for water use in the western United States
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; 00-00-0000 Analysis: John Wesley Powell's vison for water use in the...listened to explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell 125 years ago. That's what...beginning in the past with John Wesley Powell's vision. NPR's Howard...
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Interview: Edward Dolnick discusses the great 1869 journey through the Colorado River by John Wesley Powell and his group of men
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ...through the Colorado River by John Wesley Powell and his group of men Host...anniversary of the death of John Wesley Powell, the Civil War veteran who...book, Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery...
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A River Running West: The LIfe of John Wesley Powell
Magazine article from: Environmental History
; ...River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. By Donald Worster. New York...index. $35.00. Major John Wesley Powell played a fabulous formative...Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the...
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A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell.
Magazine article from: Oregon Historical Quarterly
; ...River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, by Donald Worster Oxford University...Donald Worster wondered at how John Wesley Powell, the great explorer of the...The resulting portrait of John Wesley Powell far exceeds previous biographies...
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Profile: Legacy of John Wesley Powell and his work in the American West
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ...00-0000 Profile: Legacy of John Wesley Powell and his work in the American...to set out to do it. Major John Wesley Powell wrote this on August 13th...learned this basic story about John Wesley Powell. Unidentified Student #2...
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Great geographers: John Wesley Powell.
Magazine article from: Focus on Geography
; John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a towering figure...staunchly religious, and he was named for John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. They soon...an amateur naturalist befriended young Powell and taught him much about the local natural...
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A river running west: reflections on John Wesley Powell.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Cultural Geography
; ...explorer, and conservationist John Wesley Powell (1834-1901) represents...natural environment. Keywords: John Wesley Powell; American West; aridity...explorer-conservationist John Wesley Powell set out to challenge (Figure...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.
Magazine article from: Reason
; John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Grand Canyon...this century, Wallace Stegner, uses Powell's exploits as the foil to showcase...half of Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West...
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Deborah Kogan Ray: Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Deborah Kogan Ray Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer; illus. by the author...374-31838-3 $17.00 (Intermediate) In 1869 John Wesley Powell led the first recorded expedition down the Green and...
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Linguistic Natural History: John Wesley Powell and the Classification of American Languages.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Southwest
; ...Families of America, North of Mexico" (1891), by John Wesley Powell, that Jefferson's instruction was fully realized. The purpose of this essay is to examine the place of John Wesley Powell in the history of Native American anthropological...
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