Word: prize
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...major earthquakes shook the ground in the Boston area yesterday, but Baird Professor of Science Adam M. Dziewonski must have felt a few tremors when awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Crafoord prize for his work in developing the field of "seismic tomography...
...Crafoord prize, named after the inventor of the artificial kidney, is awarded by the same academy that awards the Nobel prizes...
Since there is no Nobel category for work in geophysics, the Crafoord prize is one of the most prestigious in the field...
...simple and universally significant as an Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...
...ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which the lead character named Philip Roth encounters his double, also calling himself Philip Roth, in the streets of Jerusalem. While the one Roth is enjoying the country as a tourist/researcher, the other is plotting a Jewish exodus from Israel...