Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guam (pop. 100,000), a 209-sq.-mi. island 1,500 miles north of New Guinea, taken as a prize of the Spanish-American War. It has a nonvoting representative in Congress...
Berman said he hopes CUE's planned establishment of a prize for teaching for non-tenured faculty would "provide incentives for junior professors to devote more attention and time to teaching as a worthwhile end in itself...
Still, they tried. Writes Crick, who with James Watson won his Nobel Prize for elucidating the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life: "We understand how an organism can build molecules, although the largest of them is far too minute for us to see, even with a high-powered microscope; yet we do not understand how it builds a flower or a hand or an eye, all of which are plainly visible to us." Even less is known, Crick notes, about how an animal's nervous system is formed, how the growth of the nerves is directed...
...about culture and psychology. Among other things, he is studying the language of German prostitutes and Peruvian criminals, American college slang, Mojave insult gestures and the terminology of Chinese eunuchs. In an Olympics of world cursing, he believes that Yiddish would rank high, and Hungarian would win the blasphemy prize hands down. Also notable are Turkish rhymed insults, deadly serious Eskimo singing duels and a sneaky insult in Hindi that translates literally as "brother-in-law" but actually means "I slept with your sister." In general, says Aman, Anglo-Saxon cultures prefer insults dealing with excrement and body parts, Catholic...
AFTER a friend is beaten up and sent to the hospital, Tony and his group retaliate by attacking a Puerto Rican gang, only to find out the friend isn't sure it was the Puerto Ricans who mugged him. When Tony and Stephanie win first prize in the 2001 dance contest, a goal they have aimed at for a long time, Tony decides he cannot accept it because a Puerto Rican couple really deserved...