Word: prizes
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...Pulitzer Prize winner spoke about the importance of interactions between text and photography in the book...
...Trouble (Simon & Schuster; 875 pages; $32.50), by the late J. Anthony Lukas, strives to do more than just re-create the trial; it tries to hoist a whole world onto its shoulders--people, landscapes, buildings, ideas and all. Lukas, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Common Ground, his study of school desegregation in Boston, committed suicide last spring, reportedly in despair over the new book. He was a devastating critic of his own work, and Big Trouble shows the strains of this perfectionism. Branching off from the story of the trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores...
ECONOMICS: Robert Merton and Myron Scholes. The $1 million prize the two academics will share may seem like small change compared with the $148 billion stock-options market their work helped create. Merton, of Harvard, and Scholes, of Stanford, were honored last week for helping develop and refine in the 1970s the breakthrough formula commonly used today to price stock options and other so-called derivatives. Their financial acumen had earlier been rewarded (presumably quite amply) through their partnership in a successful Connecticut-based hedge fund...
CHEMISTRY: Paul Boyer, John Walker and Jens Skou. A split decision involving ATP, the molecule that stores energy in all living cells. Half the prize went to Boyer, of the U.S., and Walker, of England, for showing how ATP is made. The other half went to Skou of Denmark for discovering a key ATP-related enzyme...
...MICHENER, 90, prolific and peripatetic author who embarked on a lifelong literary tour of the globe; after taking himself off dialysis; in Austin, Texas. While a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the Pulitzer Prize and Rodgers and Hammerstein's attention. Location, location, location was Michener's mantra: Hawaii, Alaska, Poland and, yes, even Space are a few of his titles. Michener rarely wavered from the formula that sold 75 million copies of his 40-odd books: he traveled to a chosen place, researched...