Word: medals
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David Mahoney, chair of the foundation's board of directors, awarded Bok with a medal, a citation and the donation...
...medal, presented by President Bush, is considered the most prestigious science award in the country...
Mary Ellen Avery, Rotch professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, was awarded a National Medal of Science in September for her work with pulmonary surfactant, the chemical substance lining the air spaces in the lungs and preventing their collapse...
...prize, which includes a gold medal and about $1 million, will be presented in Oslo in December, but Aung San Suu Kyi is not likely to be there. The junta has told her she can leave the country only if she agrees never to return, a condition she flatly refuses. Like other foes of injustice, whose efforts take place far off the world's stage, she cannot know what the outcome of her struggle will...
...corps (the SEALs), Kerrey got his leg blown off in one exchange but still managed to call for support and command his troops. (Nyhan really loves this story. So does everyone else. You'll hear it about a thousand times over the next 13 months.) He got a Congressional Medal of Honor for it, but he initially turned it down. No kidding. He accepted it later on behalf of his platoon...