Word: medals
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Five Harvard scientists--including a mathematician, a physicist and a professor of pediatrics--will be among 20 recipients of this year's National Medal of Science awards, one of the nation's top science honors...
...organization called Third Congressional District Republicans for Kerrey. Why? Says Mercer: "I never met a person like Bob Kerrey." Members of the Navy Sea/Air/Land (SEAL) team who followed Kerrey into battle in Vietnam voice similar sentiments. The fact that he lost a leg and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" is part of Kerrey's political appeal. It also shields him from some of the voter wrath that would rain down on other politicians if they dared to be equally outspoken...
After a long convalescence, briefly interrupted in 1970, when the entire family traveled to Washington to see President Nixon award him the Congressional Medal of Honor, Kerrey abandoned plans to open his own pharmacy because the Lincoln area was "overstocked." Instead, he and sister Jessie's husband Dean Rasmussen launched a restaurant they called Grandma's because Kerrey wanted it to feature "grandmother's kind of food." Recalls Jessie: "Dean and Bob were everything at first -- busboys, waiters, cooks and managers." For months, "they worked almost around the clock," says Jessie. Today the brothers-in-law own six restaurants...
Even Nobel Prizes for Literature have produced political storms. When Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was named in 1958, the official press labeled the decision "a hostile political act." The vilification became so intense that Pasternak declined the prize. He died in 1960, and his son claimed the medal on his behalf only last year...
...might also mention that the USET, the ASPCA Maclay and the AHSA are not "metal" classes, rather they are "medal" classes...