2008 Woodie Awards
Runners certainly do not have to run 26.2 miles in a single session to stay in shape, and the chance of victory against thousands of people is, while not impossible, much slimmer than against several people in a typical track-and-field event. Nonetheless, marathon runners have their own reasons for undertaking the intensive training regimen required for a marathon race, and eventually participating in some of the biggest marathon events such as the Boston and New York City Marathons.
We are living in a wireless world. We can instantly download any of 170,000 books using Amazon's wireless reading device, Kindle. The entire world is at our fingertips with mobile powerhouses like the iPhone. It is possible to watch movies and TV shows on-the-go on iPods.
"If you fight terror with terror, how do you know which is which?" Philip Gourevitch poses this question at the conclusion of his new book, Standard Operating Procedure, and on Sept. 25, he also posed it to an audience of over 120 Fordham students. His question concerns why American soldiers stationed at the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib in 2004 chose to strip down Iraq prisoners and coerce them into various inappropriate sexual positions and garments resembling those of the Ku Klux Klan.
Google has changed the way we look at the world so much that the infinitive "to google" is actually in the Merriam Webster Online dictionary. Google puts infinite amounts of information at our fingertips, providing link after link on any topic imaginable based on a PageRank system that orders Web sites based on their relevance to the search.