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Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was sure his creation would help bring about the end of war. "When two armies of equal strength can annihilate each other in an instant," he once wrote, "then all civilized nations will retreat and disband their troops." Things didn't quite go according to plan. What has worked out, however, is the annual set of awards, established in 1901, that bear his name. They remain the most prestigious intellectual awards in the world. On Dec. 11, 2009, President Obama will travel to Oslo to accept the 90th Nobel Peace Prize, an honor that...
...time these factions reunited as the HFPA in 1955, the Golden Globes looked very much as they do today. Honoring both movies and TV shows, dividing each category between a dramatic and a comedy/musical competition, the most recent alterations to the Golden Globes lineup occurred in 2007, with the creation of the "Best Animated Feature Film" category...
...land on long leases rather than as part of a commune. "Township and village enterprises" - small firms, many of which grew rapidly in size - sprang up. Prices were freed. As the success of reform became evident in the countryside, it was gradually extended to the cities. Deng endorsed the creation of Special Economic Zones, islands of capitalism in a communist society. (The most famous SEZ, Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, knows whom to thank for its prosperity; Deng's statue graces a square in the city.) So China started that long run of supercharged economic growth that has made...
...English program allows for much greater flexibility of study and can incorporate a wider variety of interests.English is no longer a field whose scope can be limited to Great Britain and North America. Literature written in English is truly a transnational corpus, as migration and colonization have spurred the creation of English works from literally every corner of the map. The new common-ground modules emphasize the flexibility and adaptability of the English language and its study, and allow students who are interested in English literature’s diverse origins and vast diffusions the ability to pursue that course...
...Jack C. Haverty, the president of the Cambridge Teachers Association who taught at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School for three decades, said that he didn’t really see a need for the creation of an independent middle school...