Prestigious Lasker awards announced
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Two researchers who opened up the field of heart-valve replacement and a scientist who discovered a type of cell that plays a key role in the immune system have won prestigious medical prizes.
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LONDON  - Cate Blanchett has two more honours to add to her Oscar nomination.
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These actively-managed Vanguard funds earn top marks.
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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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"I am honoured to join an Order which includes such distinguished practitioners in the arts. It is particularly pleasing that 'equality' is included in my citation"  Ian McKellen is already a knight, but his highest British honor is right around the corner. via My58.com
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Poet Adrienne Rich and two founders of The New York Review of Books have been named recipients of honorary National Book Awards medals, the National Book Foundation announced Wednesday.
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L'Accademia di Londra assegna premio all'azienda italiana
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards this week has entered full swing.    The first announcement of 2004 winners comes Monday with the physiology or medicine prize, followed by a week of announcements of winners for physics, chemistry, economics, peace and possibly literature...
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LONDON, December 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan presented twelve awards at its prestigious 2006 Excellence in Chemicals Awards Banquet held in the city yesterday evening.
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NEW YORK -- Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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A life-saving device called the  Tongue Sucker, a low-cost prosthetic foot and a high-speed  Tesla Roadster electric sports car were among the winners of  the prestigious INDEX awards, a 100,000-euro prize for design  ideas.
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A new list of the top machines is  about to be released and SGI, IBM and others are jostling for bragging rights.
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London (IANS) Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya of the University of Warwick has been selected for one of the highest British civilian honours, the Knights Bachelor, in the Queen s New Year honours list.
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Film director Roman Polanski is awarded a lifetime achievement prize by the European Film Academy.
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LONDON  - A rock 'n' roll belter, an astronaut and the inventor of the automatic teller machine were all honoured by the Queen on Friday in the New Year's honours list.
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Best in consumer electronics displayed at CES Innovation Awards.
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Jim Carrey is honoured by the American Film Institute. Plus more entertainment news in brief.