Word: award
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...carrot is an annual $360,000 cash award -- the largest environmental prize ever -- to be split among six "grassroots heroes," each from a different region of the world. Made possible by San Francisco's Goldman Environmental Foundation, the award will recognize "important efforts to preserve or enhance the environment," from protecting endangered species to combatting pollution. The idea is to give conservationists the kind of recognition and prestige afforded to Nobel laureates. Says Richard Goldman, president of the foundation and a longtime environmental crusader: "We're trying to find people who can inspire others, people who make a difference...
...owner of Columbia, Sony will control a rich library of 2,700 films, including such Best Picture Academy Award winners as On the Waterfront (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Gandhi (1983). The company hopes to use that collection to boost sales of its new 8-mm videocassette equipment...
During the mid-1980s, Rather showed gripping scenes of battling troops and suffering civilians, most photographed by freelance cameraman Mike Hoover, 45. The images won CBS an award for news coverage. But the New York Post, citing sources in the U.S., Europe and Asia, said some scenes were fabricated. CBS officials said they believed the film was authentic but were looking into the charges. Among the Post's allegations...
China called the award an insult and interference in its internal affairs...
Past prizes have been used to encourage human rights activists and support peace efforts. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa won in 1983; the 1987 prize went to President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica for his Central American peace plan; the United Nations' peacekeeping forces were given last year's award...