1.   The new national awards provide two types of qualification.

2.   Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills.

3.   Coming at such a point, the award may provide a psychological boost as much as a monetary one.

4.   The award has provided new vigor for passage of proposed tort reform laws that seemed all but dead in the waning days of the state legislative session.

5.   The award provided Dryer the opportunity to attend Yale University School of Drama for three years.

6.   The magazine awards provided a rare apples-to-apples victory over Time, which was also nominated in the general excellence category for large-circulation magazines.