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...April 12, 1955: The creation of a vaccine for polio is announced. Two Harvard professors, Thomas H. Weller and John F. Enders, aid in the development of the vaccine. The two would later receive the Nobel Prize for developing a method of cultivating polio viruses on non-nervous tissue...
...none," says Corduff, 53, drinking tea in his kitchen as he muses on the strange course of events that made him, first a jailbird, then a national hero and, earlier this month, took him to San Francisco to collect $125,000 as winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...
...national identity that had been growing since the war and to lead rapidly to a Palestinian state. But for Jews and Arabs alike, Oslo and its aftermath proved to be new disappointments. Israel sped ahead with yet more settlements in the West Bank, and Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretly signed off on terrorism directed against the Israelis...
...Besides Van Sant's, there were four other U.S. films in the Competition - Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, David Fincher's Zodiac and James Gray's We Own the Night - and none of them received a prize. Readers in the States may be wondering if all four films were less laudable than the nine that won something...
...Sant, who's made good films (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For) and bad ones (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Finding Forrester), got a prize for another miss: Paranoid Park, the muddled, nearly incoherent tale of a teen skateboarder haunted by a thoughtless killing. He received the 60th Anniversary Prize, Frears announced, "for his career, and because he made a lovely film...