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...learned they are a great contributor to global warming. I became enlightened but at the same time frightened by the damage done to my immediate environment and the greater world. As an African, my interest in the environment was further aroused when Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contributions to the environment. Thank you, TIME, for celebrating these heroes who are working so hard to protect our planet. Timi Songi, Yenagoa, Nigeria...
...vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades that followed, he hit his powerful stride with a new kind of metaphysical journalism and The Armies of the Night, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning "nonfiction novel" about the October 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle and even ran a boisterous, quixotic and very entertaining campaign for mayor of New York City. A second Pulitzer...
...intelligence behind the wheel. But instead of hiring a bunch of fancy nerds and sticking them in an undisclosed location until they came up with a robo-car, DARPA held an open-invitation unmanned-car rally. Come on down, bring the kids, and may the fastest bot win. Grand prize: $2 million...
Kathleen Spivack has been recognized as one of the foremost poets of her generation. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and her work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and Harper’s. “Moments of Happiness,” her first poetry collection since 1986’s “The Beds We Lie In,” was released on Nov. 10, exclusively through Cambridge’s Grolier Poetry Book Shop. The Harvard Crimson: This is your first book since 1986—that?...
Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he admits to a few regrets. One is that he was so busy throughout the 1980s and '90s that he "did not have the time to follow developments in technology closely." But he is catching...