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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
2007 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics Eric Maskin, center, embraces a woman after a drawing for a "Win a Date with a Nobel Laureate" contest during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
CORRECTS TO REFLECT THAT KIRSHNER IS NOT A NOBEL LAUREATE, ADDS HIS CURRENT TITLE - Harvard University Clowes Professor of Science Robert Kirshner, left, along with Nobel laureates Dudley Herschbach, center, and Rich Roberts, fire paper airplanes back at the audience during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
Audience members throw paper airplanes during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
CORRECTS TO REMOVE REFERENCE TO KIRSHER WINNING 2011 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS, ADDS HIS CURRENT TITLE - Harvard University Clowes Professor of Science Robert Kirshner holds up a piece of pie while explaining a pie chart about the universe, shortly before eating it, during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara, left, and Koji Tsukada accept their award during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
Koji Tsukada, left, fires his invention the "SpeechJammer" at 1986 Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry Dudley Herschbach during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
Koji Tsukada yells into his invention the "SpeechJammer" during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
A 2012 Ig Nobel Prize trophy is held during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 10:18:30 PM EST
Nobel Prize laureates Eric Maskin, Rich Roberts and Dudley Herschbach lean over behind a mini Eiffel Tower during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Posted: 9/19/2012 8:28:15 PM EST
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, answers a question from the audience after delivering the 2009 Albert H. Gordon Lecture about the current financial crisis at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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Posted: 9/19/2012 11:18:30 AM EST
A nun and a Coptic priest share a word outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 9/19/2012 11:18:30 AM EST
A Coptic and a catholic priest, right, walk outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 9/19/2012 11:18:30 AM EST
Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, is interviewed outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. Her paper, and the front-page attention it received in some U.S. newspapers, was very much a topic of conversation during the coffee breaks at the conference Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 9/19/2012 11:18:30 AM EST
Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, is interviewed outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. Her paper, and the front-page attention it received in some U.S. newspapers, was very much a topic of conversation during the coffee breaks at the conference Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 9/18/2012 8:08:28 PM EST
In this Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University, divinity professor Karen L. King holds a fourth century fragment of papyrus that she says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. King, an expert in the history of Christianity, says the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identified as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Rose Lincoln)
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Posted: 9/18/2012 8:08:24 PM EST
This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. King, an expert in the history of Christianity, says the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identified as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century. (AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)
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Posted: 9/13/2012 10:49:08 PM EST
FILE - In this June 30, 2009 file photo, Harvard University President Drew Faust speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Mass. Faust said Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2012, during a telephone interview with The Associated Press. that athletes should not be singled out for blame in what is believed to be the largest cheating scandal in the school's history. They are not being treated any differently in the investigation, either, she added. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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Posted: 9/12/2012 7:48:33 PM EST
FILE - In Feb. 10, 2012, file photo, Harvard's Kyle Casey (30) celebrates after he scored against Penn in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Philadelphia. Casey plans to withdraw from school amid a cheating scandal that also may involve other athletes, according to several reports. Sports Illustrated and the Harvard Crimson reported Tuesday that Casey, a senior, would withdraw in an attempt to preserve a year of eligibility once the issue is resolved. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr, File)
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Posted: 9/12/2012 10:53:35 AM EST
FILE - This March 24, 2012 file photo shows music mogul Clive Davis attending Aretha Franklin's seventieth birthday party in New York. Davis will release an autobiography in February that will include “the excitements, the disappointments and the triumphs” of his career. The untitled book will be released through Simon & Schuster and will be written with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. A news release says it will include “never-before-heard tales” about Davis' work with acts like Whitney Houston, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. Davis has helped the careers of many top musicians from Aretha Franklin to Billy Joel to Alicia Keys. The Harvard Law School graduate founded both Arista and J Records. He's currently the COO of Sony Music and is working on Franklin's new album and Houston's forthcoming greatest hits set. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
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Posted: 9/12/2012 10:53:32 AM EST
FILE - This March 24, 2012 file photo shows music mogul Clive Davis attending Aretha Franklin's seventieth birthday party in New York. Davis will release an autobiography in February that will include “the excitements, the disappointments and the triumphs” of his career. The untitled book will be released through Simon & Schuster and will be written with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. A news release says it will include “never-before-heard tales” about Davis' work with acts like Whitney Houston, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. Davis has helped the careers of many top musicians from Aretha Franklin to Billy Joel to Alicia Keys. The Harvard Law School graduate founded both Arista and J Records. He's currently the COO of Sony Music and is working on Franklin's new album and Houston's forthcoming greatest hits set. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
