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Rumors of a Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...Writing about work like theirs is usually an uphill battle. Nobel-worthy research can be impenetrable to a lay audience, and the men and women doing it tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew...
Drilling was one of the animators working earlier this year as the shooting of Were-Rabbit raced to its close in the Aardman sound stage, a huge warren of 30 curtained sets, some that could fit on an office desk, some about the size of the model-train layout in your loner uncle's basement. Following each of the 24,000 hand-sketched storyboards that illustrate the scenes, the animator dresses the set, puts in props (tomatoes made of wax, teddy-bear fur painted green for grass), gives each character the subtlest facial makeover and takes the picture. Animators must...
DIED. M. SCOTT PECK, 69, ex-military psychiatrist credited with pioneering publishing's self-help genre with his best-selling 1978 life manual, The Road Less Traveled; of pancreatic and liver cancer; in Warren, Conn. Although he freely admitted he was not always able to heed his own advice--he acknowledged having such bad habits as drinking and womanizing--Peck differed from his successors by emphasizing the arduous task of self-examination, insisting that "life is difficult...