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• French author Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Swedish Academy said Thursday that French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature. The academy called Le Clezio "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer ...
• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
... carcinogenesis and the development of prophylactic vaccines against HPV acquisition," the citation said. Alfred Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, established the prizes in his will in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature ...
• Millions of names sent to space
In part because it is the most recent to arrive [on Mars], in part because it includes a library of Martian related literature and art in addition to names. But, I'm awfully fond of the Mars Exploration Rovers and all the other many places our names ...
• T.I., Robin Thicke have new CDs
Rather than giving in to his situation, T.I. has embodied literature’s most popular archetype — the survivor — by transforming his woes into a reflective, enjoyable album. Robin Thicke, “Something Else” Don’t take the title of the follow ...
• Leonardo DiCaprio: Half a boy and half a man
He even brought a very modern spin to one of literature’s greatest sullen teens in Baz Luhrmann’s histrionic, amped-up “Romeo + Juliet.” And then, of course, there was “Titanic,” the movie that rocketed him from critical favorite to It Boy ...