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Staying home all those Saturday nights may finally be paying off for dedicated students with eyes fixed on the prize-Marshall and Rhodes scholarships...
When he received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1993, Morton noted how his practice--and his life--had changed since he arrived in Lancaster County. "At first I shared information with this community that I thought would help them. Now I am indebted to them for what they have shared with me. As outsiders, we tend to view Amish traditions as archaic and feel they don't have much to teach us. But we should look at how the Amish keep families together and serve the needs of the disadvantaged, the ill and the aged. They have...
...result of this work, Cox and a chief who helped him shared one of the six prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes for 1997. Each received $37,500. Since then Cox has expanded his preservation efforts by establishing the Seacology Foundation, based at Brigham Young. Some of the foundation's funding comes through Cox's ethnobotanical success with medicinally, or in this case cosmetically, valuable plants. When Nu Skin International, a Utah-based personal-care company, wanted to hire Cox as a consultant, he charged a $40,000 fee that he plowed into the foundation. He also asked Nu Skin and Nature...
Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is tantalizing budding student entrepreneurs with a new, $5,000 prize for the business proposal that is judged to have the greatest potential for commercial success...
...Arnold Palmer, 68, is bringing the Senior PGA Tour to TV for a total of 221 hours this year, mostly on the sports network ESPN. The tour has grown from 35 tournaments with a total purse of $8.7 million a decade ago to 43 events with $41.65 million in prize money today. The future of senior tennis looks just as bright, with crowd pleasers such as Jimmy Connors, 45, and Bjorn Borg, 41, attracting fans to the Nuveen Tour for players 35 or over, and globe-trotting grand masters like Rod Laver, 59, and Ken Rosewall, 62, continuing to dazzle...