A Price on the Priceless

Our hearts got out to Roy Glauber, a Nobel Laureate physicist who was recently victimized by an extremely dumb burglar. (Note to aspiring master criminals: Don't leave your food-stamp cards at the scene.) Though the local cops have nabbed the crook, they've so far been unable to locate Glauber's Nobel gold medal, which he received five years ago for his work on the quantum theory of optical coherence. That makes us wonder if the burglar actually managed to fence one of the most sought-after p...