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Inside, portraits of all 700-plus prizewinners hang from the ceil-
ing—shuffling around the room like shirts at the dry cleaner's (miss your fa-
vorite, and he or she will come around again in three hours). Two video rooms
run a continuous montage of quick programs (three-minute bios of various
winners in one program, five-minute films celebrating various intellectual en-
vironments—from Cambridge to Parisian cafés—in the other). The Viennese-
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famous Nobel ice cream. All Nobel laureates who visit the museum are asked
to sign the bottom of a chair in the café. Turn yours over and see who warmed
