In a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, published in 2009, Joan Chiao and Katherine Blizinsky of Northwestern University, in Illinois, found a positive correlation between higher levels of the short version of the gene and mood disorders (China and Japan have lots of both) and with collectivist political systems.

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Victor Shih of Northwestern University, in Illinois, thinks they could already be as high as 11.4 trillion yuan (with another 12.7 trillion in untapped lines of bank credit).

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Pandell, the special projects editor of The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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In a paper just published in the journal Economic Theory, Donald Saari, a mathematician at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, claims to have got to the root of the problem.

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The chemistry prize went to Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and John Pople of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois.

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The technology behind the project, a collaborative effort by researchers at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and Tufts University, is described in a paper published this week in the journal Science.

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