Air Swimmers, flying remote-control clownfish and sharks invented by Blake English, '09, MS '10, won the best overall Toy of the Year award. . . . Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante, a 1990-92 Stegner fellow, is the first work of fiction to win the £25,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize. . . . The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, '93, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. The book was also a finalist for the Wellcome Prize. . . . NBC has hired Chelsea Clinton, '01, as a special correspondent. . . . Assistant psychology professor Lera Boroditsky, MA '99, PhD '01, and economist and activist David Korten, '59, MBA '61, PhD '61, are among "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" selected by Utne Reader.
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