--- title: Milestones description: ANNOUNCED By the Obama Administration, that Shell has permission to drill in the Arctic beginning this summer. The decision is conditional upon Shell's obtaining other... canonical: https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T09:51:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T19:54:43.664Z article:section: World og:title: Milestones og:description: ANNOUNCED By the Obama Administration, that Shell has permission to drill in the Arctic beginning this summer. The decision is conditional upon Shell's obtaining other... og:url: https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Milestones twitter:description: ANNOUNCED By the Obama Administration, that Shell has permission to drill in the Arctic beginning this summer. The decision is conditional upon Shell's obtaining other... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Milestones (14 May 2015) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 14, 2015 9:51 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 14, 2015 9:51 AM CUT ANNOUNCED By the Obama Administration, that Shell has permission to drill in the Arctic beginning this summer. The decision is conditional upon Shell’s obtaining other permits from government agencies. DIED Elizabeth Wilson, 94, who played the mother of Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate and the villain in 9 to 5\. She won a Tony Award in 1972 for Sticks and Bones. SET A new record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction, Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O). It went for $179.4 million at Christie’s in New York City. SENTENCED Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, to 3½ years in prison for revealing to a New York Times reporter a plan to curb Iran’s nuclear program by passing it phony blueprints. REACHED A treaty by the Vatican to formally recognize the Palestinian state. The two sides said it would be signed soon. DIED Peter Gay, 91, a historian who wrote landmark books on Freud, Voltaire and the Enlightenment. His volume The Rise of Modern Paganism won the National Book Award in 1967. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/"},"headline":"Milestones (14 May 2015)","datePublished":"2015-05-14T09:51:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:54:43.664Z","description":"ANNOUNCED By the Obama Administration, that Shell has permission to drill in the Arctic beginning this summer. The decision is conditional upon Shell's obtaining other...","url":"https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3858355/milestones-51/","name":"Milestones (14 May 2015)"}}]}] ```