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...Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis, hasn't promised to stay away from his former career when he's on-air. "I will be a tough critic. I will praise and I will criticize. But the atmosphere of the show will be relaxed--the way it is when you go fishing...
...oddity is that for all the Administration's display of pique, the result of the German election is probably as good as Washington could have hoped for. The Greens party, Schroder's coalition partner, was the big winner at the polls. Its leader, Fischer, can now be expected to have even more of a free hand in foreign policy--and of all the leading German politicians, he has the greatest feel and affection for the U.S. "I know the United States very well," he told TIME. "Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx." Moreover, Schroder...
...Every winner has done something that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think,” said Annals of Improbable Research editor and master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams...
...fence is the winner of a cash-prize competition last spring. Ten teams composed of GSD students and alumni submitted designs meant to ensure the safety of workers and the public, provide a sound barrier from construction for residents and students and exploit the vast artistic potential of a construction fence. A jury composed of GSD faculty members, construction representatives and a neighborhood representative chose Susie Sanchez, Kiernan Mathews, Michael Goorevich, G. Russell Fason and Jason Casero’s fence proposal. Designed in one week and built over the summer, the fence manipulates light and color to give...
Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his 1979 book On Human Nature and his 1991 book The Ants, and is frequently referred to as the “father of biodiversity...