Word: prizes
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...ventures have produced more noble failures than the quest to power civilization with renewable energy from geophysical forces -- the winds, the tides and, most of all, the sun's rays. "To date the history of solar has been the story of Tantalus: year after year the prize has remained, maddeningly, just beyond reach," noted a FORTUNE magazine story. It ended on a hopeful note: "The period of solar frustration is drawing to a close." Date of the story: September 1979. In fact, the period of solar frustration was just beginning...
About 70 literature fans crowded into Adams House upper common room last night to hear Pulitzer prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell recite some of his favorite poetry...
...analysis, using a technique whose inventors won the 1993 Nobel Prize, is a sort of molecular copying process that zeros in on and amplifies a particular region of DNA. The differences at that site can then be distinguished through specialized probes that tiger a color change or through gel electrophoresis followed by a silver stain...
...Electronic Data Systems, the company Ross Perot founded and later sold to General Motors, last November bagged a glittering international prize: a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul and then manage the computer network of Inland Revenue, the British government's main tax-collecting agency. Again it was a case of American firms' specializing in a particular high-tech field. Other countries' firms may provide tough competition in making computer hardware and software, but nobody matches the Americans at the fine art of tying computers together into networks that do everything from running automated factories to sending out medical...
...Susan Lucci of the Nobel Peace Prize is passed over yet again...