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	Sid Altman - Scientist
		Sid Altman learned the value of work from his parents who, as new Canadians, both had to work to make ends meet.
		Altman wanted to go to McGill University after high school, however, after writing the American SAT test, he was accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of America's highest regarded universities.
		Sid Altman was presented with a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989 along with his associate, Thomas Cech, for work dealing with RNA as a biocatalyst which helps determine DNA heredity.
	www.canada-heros.com /altman_sid.html (240 words)

	KGMB9 - Hawaii's Severe Weather Station \| Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Altman was written off repeatedly by the Hollywood establishment, and his reputation for arrogance and hard drinking â” a habit he eventually gave up â” hindered his efforts to raise money for his idiosyncratic films.
		Altman generally worked on shoestring budgets, yet he continually landed marquee performers who signed on for a fraction of their normal salaries.
		Altman was a bomber pilot in World War II and studied engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia before taking a job making industrial films in Kansas City.
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	Robert Altman to finally get his Oscar - Boston.com
		Altman, 80, is tied with four other filmmakers for the record for Oscar futility, losing all five times they were nominated.
		Yet Altman is considered one of modern Hollywood's boldest innovators and iconoclasts, a caustic satirist who pioneered unconventional methods, including huge ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue and tracking shots lasting minutes at a time without cutting, with the camera on the move as it flits from one character to another.
		Academy board members were "taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," said Sid Ganis, academy president.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2006/01/23/robert_altman_to_finally_get_his_oscar (322 words)

	science.ca Profile : Sid Altman
		Altman is working on mutant cells with malfunctioning t-RNA (transfer RiboNucleic Acid)—a substance that is part of the machinery in a cell that decodes instructions in DNA.
		Altman had always thought he would stay in Canada and enrol at McGill for University in Montreal, but on a whim he wrote the SAT and he and his friend both applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston.
		Altman’s family had to scramble to get the money together to send him to this great school, and he wasn’t even sure he wanted to go.
	www.science.ca /scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=3 (842 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists
		Altman, a teacher at New York University's Stern School of Business, may be willing to give a quick tutorial on a formula he has spent almost 40 years refining.
		Altman says 80 percent to 90 percent of the public companies that went bankrupt over the past 35 years had scores of less than 1.8.
		Altman, in effect, does actuarial studies of companies with similar ratings and performance, much like those done by life insurance specialists to figure out how long people will live, given their age and health.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_levin&sid=ajDXABIp3XQA (950 words)

	atlanta.jewish.com - Family Friendly
		The scene, Leigh Altman said, was “pandemonium and chaos,” but there was also “real ruach” (spirit) as about 10 toddlers and their parents gathered for Shabbat services one Saturday morning at her home.
		Altman and her husband don’t belong to a synagogue but still wanted their 19-month-old son, Ely, to have Jewish experiences and to give themselves an opportunity to meet Jewish friends.
		Altman said she feels there are many young Jewish families in Decatur and she hopes the chavurah will bloom into something much larger.
	www.atljewishtimes.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1044 (530 words)

	Press Release: The 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
		This year´s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Sidney Altman, USA and Thomas Cech, USA for their discovery that RNA (ribonucleic acid) in living cells is not only a molecule of heredity but also can function as a biocatalyst.
		Altman and Cech have now independently discovered that RNA is not only a molecule of heredity but can also serve as a biocatalyst.
		When Altman and his co-workers chemically split RNAs P and separated the protein from the nucleic acid, the enzyme was no longer functional.
	www.nobel.se /chemistry/laureates/1989/press.html (1357 words)

	science.ca Profile : Sid Altman
		In recent years Dr. Altman and his research team at Yale University have applied their knowledge of RNA molecular biology to develop a method to inhibit the expression of any gene in any organism.
		Sid Altman has 1 activity for you to try in the Activities section.
		Altman feels that perhaps the biggest mystery to be solved by the next generation will be the understanding of the human brain.
	www.science.ca /scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=3&pg=1 (883 words)

	Omaha.com The Jay Page Section
		Altman mentioned that a week ago when he talked about rebuilding trust with all facets of the Creighton basketball community.
		At the top of Altman's list was mending relationships with his players that might have taken a hit with his decisions of a week ago.
		By the time Altman got a chance to meet with his players late that night, the emotions of the previous 24 hours had come to a head.
	www.omaha.com /index.php?u_page=3924&u_sid=2363910 (953 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Altman directed more than 35 feature films and was nominated five times for best-director Oscars, most recently in 2002 for ``Gosford Park.'' He was given a lifetime-achievement Oscar this year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		Altman directed eight or nine segments of ``The Millionaire'' before he was fired for improvising too often.
		Altman later joked that his son Michael, who contributed the theme lyrics (``Suicide is painless, It brings on many changes'') was enriched by royalties, unlike the director.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aTKgTdCuM9WI&refer=us (1803 words)

	Altman to get lifetime achievement Oscar
		Los Angeles (dpa) - Director-producer-writer Robert Altman is to be awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition of his life achievements, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday.
		Altman, 80, has directed 37 films, produced 27 and written 16 of them.
		That will change on March 5 when Altman will be given an honorary Oscar to mark "a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike," the Academy said in a statement.
	www.wtopnews.com /index.php?nid=114&sid=670236 (303 words)

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		SID HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING BY HANDING OUT FLYERS AT TRAIN STATIONS AND SCHOOLS CLOSE TO HIS HOME.
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	La Coctelera: RADIOGRAFÍAS - Inicio
		De gran presencia y mente brillante, Altman fue, además de director, productor y guionista de gran parte de su obra, lo que le valió el calificativo de autor.
		Altman, nacido en Kansas, nunca pudo recibir este premio por sus más de 80 películas como director, 39 como productor y 37 como guionista.
		Altman comenzó su carrera como documentalista y con películas industriales y anuncios, antes de su debut en el cine con The Delinquents, en 1957.
	www.lacoctelera.com /radiografias (2486 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Altman to receive honorary Oscar
		Altman is one of five film-makers who have been nominated on five occasions but never picked up an award.
		Board members were "taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," he added.
		Altman began his career directing documentaries and industrial and educational films, moving into feature films in 1957.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4604712.stm (360 words)

	Sidney Ganis - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hayek joined Sid Ganis, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, at the nominations announcement yesterday morning, and when she spotted her friend's name on the card, she begged to be able to read it out.
		Movie mogul Robert Altman is to be honored at the Oscars in March with an Honorary Award.
		Sid Ganis has been named president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the organization that presents the annual Oscar awards.
	imdb.com /name/nm0304398/news (626 words)

	Omaha.com Home Page
		Altman became the 90th Nebraska newsmaker to have a his caricature enshrined at the Omaha Press Club.
		Altman said he had more hair problems this year at his home, but not his own coif.
		Altman's caricature includes the coach in game attire, a white shirt with a tie that has little C's on it for Creighton.
	www.omaha.com /index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=38&u_sid=780007&PHPSESSID=0dda4480a9de2ced495cf0537ac2b031 (663 words)

	Heller School at Brandeis Programs in SID
		As an SID graduate student, you are also able to take courses at those neighboring colleges and universities that are part of the Boston-area University Consortium.
		Stuart H. Altman (email: altman@brandeis.edu), Dean of The Heller School and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy.
		Professor Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; a member of the Board of Overseers of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; and, Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Schneider Institute for Health Policy.
	www.heller.brandeis.edu /sid/people_faculty.htm (8930 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Honorary Oscar for Robert Altman
		American film director Robert Altman is to be presented with his first Oscar - an honorary award to celebrate a career which has spanned six decades.
		Altman, who is now 80, has received five Best Director Oscar nominations, as well as two nominations for producing, but he has never won an Academy Award.
		Altman has directed 86 films, produced another 39 and written 37 films including Oscar-nominated classics such as 1970 anti-war drama 'MASH'; 'The Player' (1992); 'Nashville', a 1975 film about the country music business; 'Short Cuts' (1993), based on short stories by Raymond Carver; and 'Gosford Park' (2001).
	www.rte.ie /arts/2006/0113/altmanr.html (315 words)

	Director Robert Altman Dead at 81
		Altman received best-director Oscar nominations for "M-A-S-H," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park." No director ever got more nominations without winning a competitive Oscar, though four other men _ Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Clarence Brown and King Vidor _ tied with Altman at five.
		Despite his longevity and the many big-name stars who've appeared in his films, Altman famously bucked the studio system and was often critical of its executives.
		It was Altman's love of actors that came through over and over again as Hollywood reacted to his death.
	www.620ktar.com /?nid=50&sid=265900 (926 words)

	Heller School at Brandeis Programs in SID
		Stuart H. Altman (email: altman@brandeis.edu), Dean of The Heller School and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy.
		Professor Altman was Dean of The Heller School from 1977 until July 1993 and interim President of Brandeis University from 1990-1991.
		Professor Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; a member of the Board of Overseers of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; and, Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Schneider Institute for Health Policy.
	heller.brandeis.edu /sid/people_faculty.htm (8930 words)

	Altman found Swiftly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Altman IQ Series lighting units are a small, very efficient means of illuminating and highlighting areas and...
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		On February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, Robert Altman was born to B.C...
	www.nsalg.co.uk /gardening/altman.html (306 words)

	Filmmaker gets his Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Filmmaker Robert Altman will be presented with an Honorary Oscar at the 78th Annual Academy Awards.
		Altman, who has worked as a director, writer and producer, has been nominated five times for the best directing Oscar - for "MASH," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park" - but has never won.
		"The board was taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," Academy president Sid Ganis said.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0113altman0113.html (340 words)

	Print - Long After "MASH," Altman Scores Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)*
		If Robert Altman were to direct an Academy Award acceptance speech, there probably would be five people trying to say thank you at the same time.
		Altman, the maestro of overlapping dialogue, finally will get his shot at a podium production after being voted an honorary Oscar, to be presented Mar. 5 at the 78th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood.
		Altman, 80, was informed of their decision Wednesday.
	www.eonline.com /print/index.jsp?uuid=04ce5197-19e5-40d4-a6bf-35047e928b13&contentType=newsStory (358 words)

	Robert Altman to Receive Honorary Academy Award®
		Altman has received five Academy Award nominations for directing — for "MAS*H," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park" — as well as two additional nominations as a producer of Best Picture nominees "Nashville" and "Gosford Park — but has never taken home the Oscar.
		"The board was taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," said Academy President Sid Ganis.
		Altman's Honorary Oscar will be presented, along with other Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005, on Sunday, March 5, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2006/06.01.11.html (346 words)

	Robert Altman to Receive Honorary Academy Award®
		Altman has received five Academy Award nominations for directing — for "MAS*H," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park" — as well as two additional nominations as a producer of Best Picture nominees "Nashville" and "Gosford Park — but has never taken home the Oscar.
		"The board was taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," said Academy President Sid Ganis.
		Altman's Honorary Oscar will be presented, along with other Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005, on Sunday, March 5, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®.
	oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2006/06.01.11.html (346 words)

	Canadian Nobel Prize in Science Laureates
		This book showed Altman the power science had in making predictions, and from that point on he was a confirmed scientist.
		Altman specializes in chemical processes involved in copying information from DNA and using it to make proteins, the building blocks of cells.
		After searching for nearly a decade Altman discovered that the enzyme he was looking for wasn’t the usual protein enzyme but a pair consisting of a protein and a strand of RNA.
	educ.queensu.ca /~science/main/profdev/pdjsi1.htm (2848 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Academy has honorary Oscar for Altman
		Altman's work "has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday in announcing the award.
		Altman, 80, is considered one of movie-making's boldest innovators, with an unconventional style that separates him from other Hollywood filmmakers.
		"Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," all made him a candidate for an Oscar, said Sid Ganis, academy president.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/01/11/altman-oscar.html (1246 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		Altman, who never stopped producing and directing films, died of complications due to cancer Monday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said a spokesman for Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions Company in New York City Tuesday.
		Asked what made Altman a great director, Gould laughed and told Los Angeles Times: "He was a riverboat gambler; he dared to show life taking its course.
		Altman had said he viewed the honorary Oscar "as a nod to all of my films.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?pp_cat=18&art_id=32446&sid=11011757&con_type=1 (454 words)

	Robert Altman Tapped For Honorary Oscar - Oscars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Altman, 80, has directed 37 films, produced 27 and written 16 of them.
		"The board was taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his invention of new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones," said Academy President Sid Ganis in a statement.
		Altman will be presented his honorary Oscar at the 78th annual Academy Awards ceremony March 5 in Hollywood, Calif.
	www.nbc10.com /oscars/6024110/detail.html (243 words)

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