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...literature and peace prizes regularly inspire controversy. Jean-Paul Sartre rejected his 1964 prize in literature, though his family tried to claim the award money after his death. Pablo Neruda wanted a Nobel Prize so much that he reportedly wined and dined Swedish writers and academics at his seaside villa; he finally won one in 1971. Bob Dylan has been nominated six times, Jerry Lewis once. In 2004, the literature prize went to Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek, a move so controversial that one assembly member resigned in protest. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared a 1973 Peace Prize...
...dogs' reactions to the unfair distribution of rewards is called "inequity aversion" - when an animal acts to stop perceived inequalities within its social group - and it's a defining characteristic of social, or cooperative, species. "They wanted the same reward for the same work," says Paul Morris, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in animal behavior. Morris is quick to explain that the study's results aren't anthropomorphic: "I'm not saying that dog jealousy is precisely like human jealousy." Instead, he says, the dogs likely experienced a primitive form of envy...
...Staff writer Paul T. Hedrick can be reached at phedrick@fas.harvard.edu...
...notion that it would take several hundred thousand American troops just seems outlandish."- Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, on Shinsaki's estimate...
...This is a big name and it shows that he [Obama] is not going to treat the Veterans Affairs Secretary as a low priority."- Paul Reickhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, on how the appointment will boost veteran's morale...