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JONAS BROTHERS win T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist prize at American Music Awards. Josh Groban considered for Velveeta Lifetime Achievement Award...
eBay may be the ultimate collector's resource, but it kills some of the fun. Sitting in your pj's doing keyword searches for Pez dispensers is not the same as pulling off the road to explore a junk store and finding a prize. Collecting involves more than just buying a full set of something. It is the quest for a family reunion: the posters for all 15 Houdini movies from 1919, all 177 pieces of a Minton dinner set. There's the possibility of failure and the hope for immortality. That helps explain why we have 17,500 museums...
...existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of a tadpole's embryonic cell and transferred it to a donor cell, cloning 27 tadpoles in the experiment. This groundbreaking achievement landed the scientists the internationally lauded Charles Leopold Mayer Prize of the Académie des Sciences, making them the first Americans in history to receive the award. (Read TIME's first story about Dolly...
...noted that the pair, whose residence is heavily decorated in the motif of the House’s polar bear mascot, has always been willing to contribute their “special gifts” to the Pforzheimer community. “I mean, Jim is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but he’s always so humble to talk to students on any issue,” she said. “And Sue is an amazing woman who has stories to tell and who is hilarious. She’s crafty, actually crafty—she knits...
...presidential also-rans and a relatively junior member of an institution where power and advancement require seniority. Shortly after the election, she lobbied Health Committee chairman Edward Kennedy and majority leader Harry Reid to create a health-reform subcommittee for her to chair and was turned down. Her consolation prize - to head one of three ad hoc task forces that Kennedy has created - would not allow her to put much of a stamp of her own on any final legislation that emerges. And if there's anything a First Lady who became a Senator would understand, it's that opportunities...