OUR DOMINANCE WOULD ONLY HAVE BEEN MORE COMPLETE...:

US lead in danger? Nobels tell a different story (MATT MOORE and LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press, 10/09/09)

After cleaning up in the Nobel science prizes, the United States on Friday scored another coup: the peace prize for a president less than nine months in office.

At a time when some had begun to question how long America's pre-eminence in science and diplomacy could last, nine of the 11 nominees who won or shared this year's five prizes handed out so far are American.

On Monday, the economics prize will be announced, and Americans are the favorites.

...if they'd doubled down and given the UR the Literature Prize.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 10, 2009 11:55 AM