Protein Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry

nucal writes "The 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Rod MacKinnon and Peter Agree for their work on proteins that form ion and water channels in cell membranes. In particular, solving the structure of potassium channels was a major achievement, since this was the first multispan transmembrane protein structure to be solved by X-ray crystallography. There is also structural information on aquaporins (water channels) as well."

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Praise bob!

[Anonymous Coward]

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allow me to educate you on the glory of Bob

Has anyone else noticed...

[Anonymous Coward]

That Slashdot is totally screwed tonight?

Oh America

[Anonymous Coward]

God Bless America

God Bless America , with the worst crime levels in the first world
God Bless America , where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Presiden t
God Bless America , the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
God Bless America , where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
God Bless America , and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
God Bless America , with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
God Bless America , all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
God Bless America , because corporations should be allowed to run amok
God Bless America , wasting billions to attack foreign countries

God Bless America , and thank God I don't have to live there.

Re:Oh America

[Anonvmous Coward]

"God Bless America , with the worst crime levels in the first world"

God Bless America, with it's high and diverse population.

"God Bless America , where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Presiden t"

God Bless America, where democracy means a rich white male was voted in by the people.

"God Bless America , the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources"

God Bless America, with its huge population that needs natural resources.

"God Bless America , where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK"

God Bless America, where your voice isn't silenced, even if it goes against popular opinion.

"God Bless America , and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap"

God Bless America, where being broken and homeless doesn't mean you'll starve to death.

"God Bless America , with the highest obesity levels in the developed world"

God Bless America, where you'll never starve to death.

"God Bless America , all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony"

God Bless America, who produces shows besides sitcoms.

"God Bless America , because corporations should be allowed to run amok"

God Bless America, at least we don't have suicide bombers.

"God Bless America , wasting billions to attack foreign countries"

God Bless America, proactively dending our freedom.

"God Bless America , and thank God I don't have to live there."

God Bless America, we're full, go home.

Re:Oh America

[NanoGator]

" God Bless America , and thank God I don't have to live there."

God Bless America, we're full, go home."

Off-topic? Bummer, I found it amusing. Oh well, guess it was off-topic.

Re:Oh America

[moonbender]

You seem to be settling for mediocrity. Not having a tyrant is great, but a non-working democratic progress because more than half of the population entitled to voting doesn't care either way isn't exactly the optimum either. (Or maybe you would rather say, it might not be what your founding fathers had in mind.) Or maybe you don't think very low participation in elections is a problem - I do think it is, but I'd rather not continue discussing it here since I already have a bad conscience for posting twice in this thread, even as AC. :)

I'm not saying that America is a terrible country at all, and I'm not saying Europe (where I am from, like you didn't already guess) is better or worse. In fact, I would say Europe is mostly the same - maybe less extreme in all regards, good and bad, or maybe simply 5 to 25 years behind America in many developments, including the bad ones.

Note also that I'm not the original poster, who wrote up that list, if that wasn't clear. I don't usually start wildly off-topic flamebaits on Slashdot. ;)