Word: prize
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...Norwegians received the prize in biology for a report on the "Effect of Ale, Garlic and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches" published in the British Medical Journal...
...more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the ceremony...
More than 50 percent of sophomores with grade point averages above 14 were awarded the Detur Book Prize, the College's oldest prize, for academic performance during their first-year...
Undergraduate Council, Vice-Pres. & Treasurer; Levenson Teaching Prize Comm., Co-Chair; International Relations Council, Vice-Pres. & Sec.; Model United Nations, Secretariat; Harvard College Fund Student Phonathon Program, Supervisor...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...