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Amidst a constant barrage of paper airplanes and beach balls, the editor of a science-humor magazine presented this year's Ig Nobel awards last night for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced...
...ninth in a series of "First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies," last night's ceremony featured prizes awarded in categories ranging from Chemistry to Managed Health Care...
Inventor Hyuk-ho Kwon traveled from Seoul, Korea to accept his award, bringing custom-made suits for the four genuine Nobel laureates at the ceremony...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
...West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism. It?s one of the great books of the ?50s and ?60s in any language." One group that won?t be impressed by the Nobel Committee?s choice: Oklahomans for Children and Families. The morality watchdog group last year managed to convince Oklahoma City authorities to ban the movie version of "The Tin Drum" ?- winner of the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film ?- on the basis of its sex scenes...