Word: prizeã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foundation may award the prize as early as the end of 2007. Depending on the qualifications of candidates, an award may not be distributed every year. Institute of Politics (IOP) Fellow George E. Moose, a former U.S. diplomat in the European Office of the United Nations, questioned the prize??s effectiveness even as he supported Ibrahim’s intentions. Moose, who leads an IOP study group called “Africa in the Multilateral System,” questioned the merit of providing heads of states with a safety net to fall on after they retire...
Shing-Tung Yau—who is the Graustein professor of mathematics and a winner of the 1982 Fields Medal, often considered the math equivalent of a Nobel Prize??is demanding an apology and retraction from the magazine for its Aug. 28 article, “Manifold Destiny,” penned by Columbia University journalism professor Sylvia Nasar and Rutgers University graduate student David Gruber...
...said.Kremer spent the following summer in Israel where he worked with 12 research projects at eight different universities to raise $2 million in ALS funding. But now Kremer and Boaz have their eyes set on five times that amount. After Kremer and Boaz heard of the the Ansari X Prize??a $10 million competition to launch a piloted spacecraft into space twice within two weeks in 2004—Kremer said they decided to create a company based on the same business model.“One of the big problems with ALS is that there...
...This past April, he won his second Pulitzer Prize??the journalism world’s equivalent of Indiana Jones’ Holy Grail—in part for his Darfur coverage...
...said that Iran might be the only nation in the world that would use a nuclear bomb if it acquired one, and that the former chief Pakistani nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, who aided nuclear weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, and Libya, deserved a “Nobel War Prize?? and is the “most evil, dangerous person on the face of the Earth today...