Word: prize
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...used his position as publisher of dozensof newspapers to further awareness of socialproblems. In one eight-part series of editorialsin the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, Harrison called fora minimum housing code in order to get urbanrenewal funds for low-cost minority housing. Theseries won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 andresulted in the construction of more than 8,000new housing units in the city after the code waspassed...
Harvard is full of experts, in fact--including the world's leading authority on ants, Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson. Wilson recently received his second Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, a gigantic volume that served as a basis for the computer game SimAnt. His popular Core course, "Evolutionary Biology," contains a large unit on ant social behavior...
...four weeks it has been operating, Scott's service has attracted thousands of cutups who have dispatched 18,000 bogus messages to unsuspecting users all over the world. On the same day Hong won her phony prize, other Internet users received celebrity E-mail from the chairman of Microsoft (a handsome job offer), the President of the U.S. (an admonishment to stop reading alt.sex and start studying), supermodel Cindy Crawford (a proposition), the Supreme Being (an invitation to the Second Coming) and Satan (an invitation to eternal damnation...
Harrison won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for aseries of editorials calling for improvements inminority housing in Gainesville, Florida...
While Quittner was helping award prizes, another Time journalist was winning one. Correspondent Michael Duffy-who has covered both the Bush and Clinton administrations for us-received the coveted Gerald R. Ford Prize last week for outstanding reporting on the White House...