The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1994. Journalism awards Public Service: Akron Beacon Journal, for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community. Spot News Reporting: Staff of The New York Times, for its comprehensive coverage of the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Investigative Reporting: Staff of The Providence Journal-Bulletin, for thorough reporting that disclosed pervasive corruption within the Rhode Island court system. Explanatory Journalism: Ronald Kotulak of the Chicago Tribune, for his lucid coverage of current developments in neurological science. Beat Reporting: Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of The Detroit News, for dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency. National Reporting: Eileen Welsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, for stories that related the experiences of Americans who had been used unknowingly in government radiation experiments nearly 50 years ago. International Reporting: Dallas Morning News Team of The Dallas Morning News, for its series examining the epidemic of violence against women in many nations. Feature Writing: Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times, for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side and for two stories reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993. Commentary: William Raspberry of The Washington Post, for his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics. Criticism: Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix, a weekly, for his skillful and resonant classical music criticism. Editorial Writing: R. Bruce Dold of the Chicago Tribune, for his series of editorials deploring the murder of a 3-year-old boy by his abusive mother and decrying the Illinois child welfare system. Editorial Cartooning: Michael P. Ramirez of The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues. Spot News Photography: Paul Watson of the Toronto Star, for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis. Feature Photography: Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby. Letters awards Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) History: no award Biography or Autobiography: W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt) Poetry: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa