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...late British psychologist Cyril Burt was eminent in his profession: he held the psychology chair at London's University College, was knighted by King George VI and won the Thorndike award from the American Psychological Association. As a government adviser, he helped restructure the British educational system in the 1940s. Now, five years after his death, Burt is the object of a growing scandal. He has been accused of doctoring data and signing the names of others to reports that he wrote. If the charges are proved true, said Science magazine last week, "the forgery may rank with that...
...Monsanto award is now the school's largest private grant, she added...
Andy Puopolo is best known in the Harvard community as an outstanding football player, a starting cornerback, a standout in tackles and interceptions, and just three weeks ago, a winner of the player of the week award. To many he is also a close and devoted friend, a friend worthy of admiration, not only for his accomplishments in athletics and academics, but also for a remarkable ability to persevere in the face of adversity...
Even the Nobel Peace Prize is not a high enough award for Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Belfast...
Prestigious Prize. Last week the public health officers who waged that heroic global effort received one of medicine's highest accolades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awarded a special prize to the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases...