Word: coups
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...YORK CITY: The bloody aftermath of the Taliban coup in Afghanistan, AIDS and the devastating damage done to world fishing supplies by ecological problems were among the topics that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning stories this year. The big winner in the 81st annual Pulitzer Prize competition is the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which won the public service award and the Pulitzer gold medal for its series on threats to the world's fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today...
...barnyard foul-up? Not at all. The chicks' identity crisis was a scientific coup, demonstrating convincingly how instinctive ("hardwired") behavior can be shuttled from one species to another. The feat, moreover, was accomplished not by crossbreeding or genetic engineering but through the artful replacement of selected brain cells in a chicken embryo with those from the embryo of a Japanese quail, a fowl of a completely different sort...
...takes on Broadway producers after she gets fired from their show. JOANNA PACITTI earned the title role in the revival of the '70s musical Annie by winning a splashy, highly publicized talent contest. But after more than 100 performances on the road, producers executed what a tabloid called a "coup d'tot" and replaced her with understudy Brittny Kissinger. "The actress and the part never came together the way we felt they needed to," said producer Timothy Childs. "My heart was cut in half," says Joanna, whose parents have threatened to sue for breach of promise if their daughter doesn...
...movie by a firm called International Film & Records. After the fight he could not reach IFR for postproduction funds. Later he learned that the company's sole shareholder was Stephen Talbot, Finance Minister of Liberia. Talbot had died in a plane crash; his associate was executed in a Liberian coup, as Gast learned when he saw a TIME photo of the man standing before a firing squad...
...exhibition focus on the developing Soviet economy, which looks so promising from the propaganda (and at the time seemed so fruitful from the input-intensive growth experienced by the Soviets early on), that we can understand how the revolution appealed to so many intellectuals who participated in Lenin's coup. The government's efforts to bring electricity to the whole of its parts certainly proved an inspiring theme for much of the Soviet propaganda. Other posters' promise of education--as well as the illustration of the illiterate as one blindly walking off of a cliff--show the importance of learning...