Stem cell team wins 2007 Nobel for medicine

8 Oct 2007, 1515 hrs IST,REUTERS

STOCKHOLM: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their work on stem cells, prize awarder the Karolinska institute said on Monday.

The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize recognised the international team's work on introducing genetic changes in mice using embryonic stem cells.

Capecchi was born in Italy and is a US citizen. Both Evans and Smithies are British-born. Evans is a Briton while Smithies is a U.S. citizen. Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobels awarded each year.

The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace bearing the name of Alfred Nobel were first awarded in 1901 according to the will of the Swedish dynamite millionaire

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Relative tax burdens of the individual states

This map shows the relative tax burdens of the individual states as measured by the return they get on every dollar they pay in federal tax. For instance, New Jersey gets $0.57 in federal money for every dollar in federal tax it pays. Similarly California, the worlds 5th largest economy, gets $0.78 in federal funding for every federal tax dollar it pays. Poverty-stricken red states then soak up the blue state surplus with states like Alaska, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama getting between $1.50 and $2.00 back for every dollar they pay. These states actually make money off of federal taxes! Why do they send tax cutters to congress?




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Federal Spending in Each State Per Dollar of Federal Taxes

Federal Spending in Each State Per Dollar of Federal Taxes
FY 2004
State	Federal Spending per Dollar of Federal Taxes	Rank
New Mexico	$2.00	1
Alaska	$1.87	2
West Virginia	$1.83	3
Mississippi	$1.77	4
North Dakota	$1.73	5
Alabama	$1.71	6
Virginia	$1.66	7
Hawaii	$1.60	8
Montana	$1.58	9
South Dakota	$1.49	10
Oklahoma	$1.48	11
Arkansas	$1.47	12
Louisiana	$1.45	13
Kentucky	$1.45	14
Maryland	$1.44	15
Maine	$1.40	16
South Carolina	$1.38	17
Tennessee	$1.30	18
Arizona	$1.30	19
Missouri	$1.29	20
Idaho	$1.28	21
Utah	$1.14	22
Kansas	$1.12	23
Vermont	$1.12	24
Iowa	$1.11	25
Wyoming	$1.11	26
North Carolina	$1.10	27
Nebraska	$1.07	28
Pennsylvania	$1.06	29
Florida	$1.02	30
Rhode Island	$1.02	31
Ohio	$1.01	32
Indiana	$0.97	33
Oregon	$0.97	34
Georgia	$0.96	35
Texas	$0.94	36
Washington	$0.88	37
Michigan	$0.85	38
Wisconsin	$0.82	39
Delaware	$0.79	40
Colorado	$0.79	41
New York	$0.79	42
California	$0.79	43
Massachusetts	$0.77	44
Nevada	$0.73	45
Illinois	$0.73	46
Minnesota	$0.69	47
New Hampshire	$0.67	48
Connecticut	$0.66	49
New Jersey	$0.55	50
District of Columbia	$6.64	na
Source: Tax Foundation, Census Bureau.