Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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Nobel Prize for economics announced
Oct 16, 2012
American scholar Alvin Roth has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, along with Lloyd Shapely. The prize is for their work on how best to match supply and demand. This has potential applications in organ donation, education and on the Internet.
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