, The Common Wealth Awards of
Distinguished Service add five celebrated achievers to the roster of honorees
as the 2005 winners are announced today.
The 2005 winners continue the Common Wealth legacy of excellence and high
achievement. Berners-Lee envisioned a
global information space where documents stored on computers everywhere could
be interconnected and available to everyone. Thorne
has been at the vanguard of researchers studying gravitational waves,
hypothetical ripples in space produced by disturbances in the universe. Both strategies use visible-light telescopes and reveal the mass and
size of planets.

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Army for 35 years and rose to the rank of four-star general. Tan's popular stories are informed by her
Chinese-American heritage as they explore family ties and understanding ,
memory and inheritance, generational tensions and conflicting cultures.

Kip Thorne
For four decades, astrophysicist Kip Thorne, 64, has been opening new
windows on the universe for scientists and lay audiences alike. In the second, a planet's presence is
inferred when it passes in front of its star, causing the star to dim, or
blink. This pinpointed exactly how much
infrared light belonged to the planets.

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Now in their 26th year, the awards have conferred more than $3. The awards also provide an incentive for people to
make future contributions to the world community.

Classical mechanics generalized (extended) to realm of high velocities (special relativity), and strong gravitational fields (general relativity).

In particular, the theory that time and space form a single 'spacetime' which is curved in the presence of energy and mass.

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Her essay,
"Mother Tongue," which is included in The Opposite of Fate, was chosen for
Best American Essays in 1991 and has been widely anthologized. David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass ., lead author of a separate study on
a different planet.

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The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service were first presented in
1979 by the Common Wealth Trust, created under the will of the late Ralph
Hayes, an influential business executive and philanthropist.

General Colin L. Mamet 's
critically acclaimed plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen
Ross, American Buffalo, Speed the Plow and Oleanna. He is now spearheading work on the "Semantic Web," a universal
medium that will make information understandable by machines as well as
humans. He was
one of three renowned scientists who conceived and founded LIGO--the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational -Wave Observatory.edu/Media

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet , visit:

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Powell was a professional soldier in the
U .

NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science

WASHINGTON, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
captured the light, for the first time, from two known planets orbiting stars
other than our sun. Deming is lead author of a new study on one of the planets. Upcoming Spitzer observations , using a range of infrared wavelengths, are
expected to provide more information about the planets ' winds and atmospheric
compositions.

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The final selection of the honorees is the decision of the Executory of
the Common Wealth Trust. Among the past winners are 11 Nobel laureates, including human
rights leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former statesman Henry Kissinger and
author Toni Morrison. He served
as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military's top post, and
distinguished himself during the successful Desert Shield and Desert Storm
operations. He receives
the 2005 Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention .
All confirmed extrasolar planets, including the two recently observed by
Spitzer, have been indirectly discovered. Of the
seven known transiting planets, only the two mentioned here meet those
criteria.

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http://www.)
Leader, diplomat , statesman and soldier, General Colin L. A signature element of
Mamet's writing is his sparse, staccato dialogue, which one reviewer described
as "poetic impression of streetwise jargon. A Broadway revival of
Glengarry Glen Ross begins in April 2005. She wins the 2005
Common Wealth Award for Literature . "We've been hunting for this light for almost 10 years,
ever since extrasolar planets were first discovered. Then, when the planets dipped behind
the stars as part of their regular orbit, the astronomers measured the
infrared light coming from just the stars.

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Hayes conceived
the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide.
The Common Wealth Award roster of honorees reads like a "Who's Who" of
modern history.S.

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Hayes served on the board of directors of PNC Bank Delaware's predecessor
banks from 1943 to 1965. Other winners include actor and advocate for the
disabled, the late Christopher Reeve; dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov;
primatologist Jane Goodall; former First Lady Betty Ford; ocean explorer
Robert Ballard; actress Meryl Streep; television journalist Walter Cronkite;
and DuPont scientist, Stephanie Kwolek, the Delaware resident who helped
invent Kevlar. He went on
to serve as National Security Advisor, becoming the first African-American to
hold the position, as he has been in every office he has held since. Bush appointed Powell 65th Secretary
of State. Powell proved himself an influential statesman as he worked to build
coalitions , forge alliances and spread the universal values of democracy and
freedom across the globe. Powell served a four-year term as Secretary of
State, and stepped down from office on January 26, 2005.

Berners-Lee is director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he guides the Web's on-going
development.

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newscom. Colin L. The awards are funded by
the Common Wealth Trust.

David Mamet
David Mamet, 57, winner of the 2005 Common Wealth Award for Dramatic Arts,
is renowned as a playwright, screenwriter, movie director and author . Mamet's plays are noted
for their gritty reality as they examine the struggles of working-class
characters in a morally bereft and predatory society. Berners-Lee dubbed
his new creation the World Wide Web. First, they used Spitzer to collect the total infrared
light from both the stars and planets. "In infrared, the star-
planet contrast is more favorable because the planet emits its own light.

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" His newest play, Romance, made
its world premiere in February 2005 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater
Company, a repertory company he co-founded in 1985. Using LIGO's instruments,
physicists hope to detect and measure gravitational waves and use them to
probe the nature of gravity and the dark side of the universe.
"In visible light, the glare of the star completely overwhelms the glimmer
of light reflected by the planet," Charbonneau said. These findings confirm hot Jupiters are indeed
hot.

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newscom.newscom.5 million in
prize money to 153 honorees of international renown . The findings mark the beginning of a new age in planetary
science, in which extrasolar planets can be directly measured and compared. From their toasty orbits, they soak up ample starlight and shine
brightly in infrared wavelengths. As more are discovered, Spitzer will be able to collect their light ,
a bonus for the observatory, considering it was not originally designed to see
extrasolar planets .

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Powell's personal integrity and
pragmatic leadership have earned him the esteem of the American people and a
place in history as an American icon. Over the
past 30 years, he has achieved international stature as one of the most
influential and original voices in the history of American drama.

Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, 49, revolutionized modern
communication with his landmark invention of the World Wide Web."
In the new studies, Spitzer directly observed the warm infrared glows of
two previously detected "hot Jupiter" planets, designated HD 209458b and TrES-
1.
The Deming paper appears today in Nature's online publication; the
Charbonneau paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical
Journal.

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), 67, has dedicated his life to the service of his country. In 1991, he posted the Web software on
the Internet -- creating the first Web site -- and made it freely available to
the world. Her short stories and essays
have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker and others.spitzer.gov

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"The 2005 Common Wealth Award honorees are global voices whose
achievements resonate in the arts, science and the political arena," said
Connie Bond Stuart, chairman, president and chief executive officer of PNC
Bank, Delaware. He wins the
2005 Common Wealth Award for Government. Hot Jupiters are extrasolar gas giants that zip closely around their parent
stars.
TrES-1 was found via the transit method in 2004 as part of the NASA-funded
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, a ground-based telescope program established
in part by Charbonneau.
Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena,
Calif.nasa.

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Powell, USA (Ret. Powell, USA (Ret.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer
Space Telescope mission for NASA 's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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These prestigious awards are
presented annually to individuals who have enriched and improved the world
through their exceptional lifetime achievements.newscom . Her subsequent novels, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred
Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter further distinguished Tan as one
of America's most gifted fiction writers. Tan has also published her memoirs,
titled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Thorne is the Feynman
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology,
where he has taught since 1966.

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In 2001, President George W. He is acclaimed worldwide for his mentoring of
young scientists and his groundbreaking work in applying general relativity to
astrophysics.
Spitzer is ideally suited for studying extrasolar planets, known to
transit stars the size of our sun, out to distances of 500 light-years. NASA's future Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph, set
to launch in 2016, will directly image extrasolar planets as small as Earth.caltech.

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Five world-renowned achievers honored for their outstanding contributions

WILMINGTON, Del.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050318/CLF004-b
http://www. He wins the
2005 Common Wealth Award for Mass Communications.

Amy Tan
Best-selling novelist, Amy Tan, 53, is a critically acclaimed and
significant voice in modern Asian-American literature. Her
first book, The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, tells the poignant tales of
four Chinese women and their American-born daughters."
The Spitzer data told the astronomers both planets are at least a steaming
1,000 Kelvin (1340 Fahrenheit).

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Winners of the 2005 Common Wealth Awards are:
- Gen. PNC Bank, Delaware is a
member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. They were discovered mainly by the
"wobble" technique and more recently, the "transit" technique. Drake Deming of NASA 's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC),
Greenbelt, Md.

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Powell Mamet Berners-Lee Tan and Thorne Win 2005 Common Wealth Awards

The honorees will receive a shared prize of $250,000 at the Common Wealth
Awards celebration April 23 at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington. (NYSE: PNC). In these gifted achievers, we see the richness of talent and the
passion for excellence that inspired Ralph Hayes to create the Common Wealth
Awards," said Stuart. In creating the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to
recognize outstanding achievement in seven disciplines: dramatic arts,
literature, science and invention, mass communications, public service,
government, and sociology. Other successful
screenplays include The Untouchables, House of Games, which marked his
directorial debut, The Spanish Prisoner and Spartan. Thorne co-
authored the classic textbook, Gravitation, and he authored the bestseller for
lay readers, Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy.
"It's fantastic ," said Dr. For artist's concepts and additional information about the Spitzer
Space Telescope on the Internet, visit:

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), former Secretary of State and
respected leader, diplomat and soldier, for Government;
- David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Hollywood screenwriter
and pre-eminent dramatist, for Dramatic Arts;
- Tim Berners-Lee, visionary inventor of the World Wide Web and director
of the World Wide Web consortium, for Mass Communications;
- Amy Tan, best-selling novelist whose stories explore family ties,
heritage and the Asian-American experience, for Literature;
- Kip Thorne , foremost American researcher of black holes and
gravitational waves, for Science and Invention . Powell, USA
(Ret. His innovative research has elucidated gravitational waves,
black holes, neutron stars and the nature of space, time and gravity.
"Spitzer has provided us with a powerful new tool for learning about the
temperatures, atmospheres and orbits of planets hundreds of light-years from
Earth," said Dr.
To distinguish this planet glow from the fiery hot stars, the astronomers
used a simple trick.

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(Photo: http://www. PNC Bank, Delaware has been trustee and administrator
for the Common Wealth Awards since their inception. As a screenwriter, he
earned Oscar nominations for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. He developed a global hypertext
system to retrieve and access information using the power of the Internet. He has never sold or patented the Web for his personal profit. In the first
method, a planet is detected by the gravitational tug it exerts on its parent
star, which makes the star wobble.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050318/CLF004-a
http://www. "They have educated , entertained and enlightened people the
world over. He
wrote the underlying technical codes - - URLs, HTTP and HTML -- created the
first Web server software and the original browser program. The book became an
immediate literary sensation, spending nine months on the New York Times
bestseller list.

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