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Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, the Nobel Prize recipient and peace activist hailed by Time Magazine as one of America's best teachers, died of natural causes Saturday, April 12 at his home in Cambridge...
Surrounded by several dozen Cambridge schoolchildren, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) called for a reduction of arms sales around the world as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias looked...
...unconscionable that 35,000 people die every day of hunger while billions of dollars are thrown away on weapons," Kennedy said while standing in front of a larger-than life mural of King, another winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
Arias, who won the Peace Prize for his efforts to end armed conflict in Central America, continues to advocate conflict prevention through the United Nations. The former Costa Rican president said that in the post-Cold War era the primary concern of policymakers should be poverty and not military aggression...
...YORK CITY: The bloody aftermath of the Taliban coup in Afghanistan, AIDS and the devastating damage done to world fishing supplies by ecological problems were among the topics that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning stories this year. The big winner in the 81st annual Pulitzer Prize competition is the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which won the public service award and the Pulitzer gold medal for its series on threats to the world's fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today...