News Source: Sify News
| 21 days ago
Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins of Britain were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. On this date: In 1009 (by some accounts on Oct. 18), the Church
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
The late-summer cold front seems to have propelled some sober-minded books onto the hardcover nonfiction list...Reid travels the world in search of cures for our national health care mess...Tracy Kidder recounts a medical student’s escape from the
News Source: National Public Radio
| 3 months ago
Lynn Harris, a pioneer of gay black fiction and a literary entrepreneur who rose from self-publishing to best-selling status, has died, his publicist said Friday...Publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the