China faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:50
in Earth & Climate
By CHI-CHI ZHANG 2010-10-06T15:19:09Z BEIJING (AP) -- It's Nobel season, and China is engaged in an annual bout of hand-wringing: Why can't the country that invented the compass and gunpowder - and that recently rocketed from poverty to global power - win one of the venerated prizes?...