NOVA wins top Alfred I. duPont Columbia Award
PBS science program NOVA earned the Gold Baton for broadcast journalism, lauded for elegant photography and thorough reporting. It collected five program awards including Everest Death Zone and China’s Mysterious Mummies, with PBS telecast planned today. Silver Batons honored 11 other journalistic pieces across networks.
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Yale Princeton scientists share Wolf Prize in mathematics
Two US scientists from Yale and Princeton, Laszlo Lovasz and Elias Stein, win the 1999 Wolf Prize for mathematics, while Israel’s Dan Shechtman earns the physics prize. Lovasz and Stein cited for combinatorics and Fourier analysis. prizes to be awarded in Jerusalem in May.
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Robert Guillaume Recovering From Stroke On Set
Actor Robert Guillaume is recuperating after a mild stroke in his dressing room on the set of Sports Night. The 71 year old, who starred in Soap and Benson, was discharged from a Los Angeles hospital and is expected to return to filming within a month.
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Malcolm X honored with stamp in New York ceremony
The U S Postal Service unveiled a 33 cent Malcolm X commemorative stamp at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Attendees included his daughters, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte and Mike Wallace as the stamp goes on sale as part of the Black Heritage series following his Harlem assassination in 1965.
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Mysterious stranger honors Poe with roses and cognac
A cloaked visitor left three roses and a bottle of cognac at Edgar Allan Poe's grave near Westminster Church in Baltimore to mark the 190th birthday. The ritual, begun in 1949, continues with anonymous followers after the original torchbearer retired in 1993.
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