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The Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger Kornberg of Stanford University.

Kornberg has studied how genetic information stored in our genes is copied so the body can use it. Hint - it is not a flash drive. The memory is too small.

When the body stops copying the info it dies. Well, there are a lot of other things that when they stop functioning, we die, too. But I won't get a Nobel Prize for knowing that.

Kornberg, 59, from Missouri will receive 10,000,000 Swedish Krona = $1.36 million and a whole lot of prestige. Stanford, of course, benefits, too.

Seriously. Stanford is a first rate institution with quality all around and a beautiful campus to boot. It's no wonder students will start in kindergarten to try and enter the school.

Congratulations to Kornberg and my neighbor, Stanford U.