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...recognition of his work on miRNA, Ruvkun won this year’s Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research—a prize he shares with his fellow researchers, Victor R. Ambros, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and David Baulcombe, who teaches at the University of Cambridge...
Japanese scientist Akira Endo received the clinical medical research prize and microbiologist Stanley Falkow of Stanford claimed the special achievement award...
...three Lasker Awards—known informally as the “American Nobel Prizes,” because 75 laureates have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—will be presented at a ceremony featuring New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as the keynote speaker on Sept. 26. The prize in each category...
...over. This weekend the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival concluded its 10-day grande bouffe of celebrity sightings, endless queues and 312 features. The People's Choice prize, voted by the TIFF audiences, went to Danny Boyle's Bollywood saga Slumdog Millionaire, which will hit real theaters in November. But there are plenty of movies still to consider - some awaiting theatrical release, some hoping for a distributor. Here are five, of varying quality, that you'll be hearing about...
...celebrated author, his series of novels—including his most renowned, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”—meticulously documented the monstrous crimes of Stalin’s regime and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century’s literary saints—a valiant crusader against thuggish, inhuman totalitarianism. But Solzhenitsyn?...