U.S. Supercomputing Needs More Money

STOCKHOLM--The Nobel Foundation plans to sell stock in a new firm being formed to preserve the value of the annual prizes it awards.. . . This year's prizes.. . will each be worth $340,000... . Shrewd investments in the past decade. . . have reversed years of declining value for the prizes, and have raised the foundation's assets to near the real value of the original estate in 1900. --From THE SCIENTIST October 5, 1987, p.4. Lend an ear to hear the story of my galloping success. I was onc

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--From THE SCIENTIST October 5, 1987, p.4.

Lend an ear to hear the story of my galloping success.
I was once a Wall Street broker(inside, trader, more or less)
But my future brightened quickly
Fast enough to lead to shock
When the staid Nobel Foundation
Said that it would issue stock

I began to buy it slowly
Craftily, with guile and care
Till it soon became apparent
I controlled the lion's share

Owning fifty-one percent
Makes one the boss-as we all know

So I called a public meeting
And named myself the CEO.

The CEO is there to manage
Any problems that arise
And the main one I adressed was-
Who should get the Nobel Prize
One who gets it must be brilliant
Blessed with competence and
In a flash it came upon me
If that is what it takes-I fit!

First I took the one in Physics But my ...

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