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Last year, Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, took home a National Book Award for nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Today he was recognized with another prestigious literary prize.Greenblatt s book, which describes how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.In its citation, the Pulitzer board described The Swerve as a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipati stanley cup ng the science and sensibilities of today. The book tells the story of Lucretius On the Nature of Things, which 2,000 years ago posited a number of revolutionary ideas 鈥?that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal m stanley cup otion, colliding an stanley cup d swerving in new dire Ubms Almost two million veterans lack health coverage
The head of the United Nations Children s Fund U Stanley becher NICEF has met with victims of recent storms in the Philippines, witnessing the damage wrought by the typhoon and subsequent floods and hearing first-hand accounts of the devastation.Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF, yesterday toured communities in Pasig City, part of the Manila metropolitan area and o stanley cup ne of the hardest-hit districts in the wake of Tropical Storm Ondoy also known as Ketsana late last month.About 300 Filipinos died and hundreds of thousands of others were displaced from their homes by the storm, which brought the equivalent of a year s worth of rain in just 12 hours to some areas of Manila. Many families have had to seek temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings. My heart goes out to the stanley flask families I met today, who now have no home but the corner of a school classroom, Ms. Veneman said, noting that she was encouraged by news that many children are starting to return to school classes.One of the p |