Awarded
American Edmund S. Phelps, 73, the Nobel for Economics for his thesis that nixed the Phillips Curve theory—that creating more jobs impacted inflation.
Murdered
Novaya Gazette columnist Anna Politkovskaya, 48, in Moscow. A strident Putin and Chechen war critic, she won the Olaf Palme award in ’04.
Acquired
Salman Rushdie’s personal archives by Emory University in Atlanta, US. Two unpublished novels, diaries of the fatwa years form its core. UK critics are angry.
Retired
Fabien Barthez, 35, France’s bald, mercurial goalie in its finest hours—the ’98 World Cup, 2000 Euro C’ship wins and the ’06 WC final. He also chain-smoked.
Dead?
String Theory, the grand attempt to unify irresolvable strands in physics. Some Nobelists call its key notion—that matter is threads of energy—"nonsense".
Proposed
Sex education, right from kindergarten through high school, beginning next year. The CBSE’s ARSH scheme also seeks to cover drug abuse and homosexuality.
