ABS-CBN News.com: Two teachers from the Philippines, both of whom hold doctorates in physics, were among the seven recipients of the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Christopher Bernido and Maria Victoria Carpio-Bernido were recognized for their revolutionary science teaching method and “their purposeful commitment to both science and nation, ensuring innovative, low-cost, and effective basic education even under Philippine conditions of great scarcity and daunting poverty.”