Rob Guth is Senior Asian Correspondent for the IDG News Service in Tokyo.

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Christian Guth, a retired French policeman, is spearheading a program to teach local law-enforcement officials about stopping the trafficking of children.

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Inflation has had its challengers since it was first proposed in the 1980s by Alan Guth of MIT and Andrei Linde of Stanford.

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The main reason it was dreamed up (by Alan Guth, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was to explain the extraordinary uniformity of the universe.

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Jim Guth teaches religion and politics at Furman University.

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Some of the winners, like Edward Witten, one of the most accomplished living theorists, and Alan Guth, the father of the theory of cosmic inflation, are well-known beyond the world of physics.

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Professor JIM GUTH (Religion and Political Science, Furman University): Evangelicals, traditionally - all the way through the late 1970s - had been much less active in political matters and in part, as a result of his efforts, that's changed.

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First introduced by Alan Guth of MIT in 1980 to explain (among other points) why the geometry of the universe appears to be flat and why matter is distributed so evenly throughout space, the theory also offered solid grounds for modeling how galaxies formed as the universe evolved.

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