Nobel Prize Awards

Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2013-05-20 11:37:00

Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos while visiting Cartagena, where Bogota Mayor�Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with Nobel...

Global Voices: Palestinian quest for statehood a moving target

2013-05-16 04:00:00

In the 65 years since the creation of� Israel and the scattering of millions of Palestinians from their historic homeland, hope of resolving the core crisis of the Middle East has risen to joyous pinnacles like Camp David and crashed into despair with...

Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells

2013-05-15 17:43:00

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Blue Bloods' on CBS

2013-05-09 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss The new episode...

Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist

2013-05-07 16:52:00

For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...

In China, let a thousand blogs bloom

2013-04-30 00:00:00

China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...

Come to papa: Ernest Hemingway's papers return from Cuba

2013-05-07 09:06:00

Records from the estate in Cuba where Ernest Hemingway wrote many of his most famous books have been digitized and brought to the United States, the Associated Press reports. The materials will be held at Boston's John F. Kennedy Library, which holds a...

Seeing what there is to see, and hearing too much, at Angel Stadium

2013-05-07 00:00:00

It's another hymn of an evening down here in Anaheim, the French Riviera of freeways. Took a mere two hours to drive from L.A., which exceeds the capacity of many bladders. Fortunately, the kid in the back seat fell asleep in Azusa of all places, or the...

A journalist remembers Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez

2013-05-06 12:45:00

Architecture and journalism, like politics, sometimes make strange bedfellows. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, the great Mexican builder who died April 16 at age 94, was responsible for many of the monumental public works that defined the Modernist look and...

Charlotte Bronte poem: $47,000 an inch

2013-04-11 08:57:00

A tiny poem written by a teenage Charlotte Bronte has sold for more than $140,000, the Guardian reports. Called "I've Been Wandering in the Greenwoods," the poem, composed when Bronte was 13 years old, is handwritten on a piece of paper just three...

For sale, one Nobel Prize in literature: The Faulkner auction

2013-04-10 12:47:00

New Yorkers got a preview Wednesday of an auction rarity: A Nobel Prize for� literature. The 1950� medal� belonged to William Faulkner, one of America's best-known and respected novelists. It comes with a hand-edited draft of Faulkner's acceptance speech;...

Emily and Herman and Lillian and Dash and ...

2013-04-09 06:00:00

Is the surest way to literary success the pairing of two cultural masters? There's a pile of books on my desk that say, yes, it is. They total two novels, one history and one set of correspondence. The subjects are two literary figures who were a...

Imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in a graphic created by PEN.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner wrote novels believed to be too complex to translate into film. But Franco has tried: His adaptation of "As I Lay Dying" will play at Cannes this spring.

2013-04-29 15:06:15

Elie Wiesel, a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, is photographed at the Holocaust Memorial Library at Chapman University in Orange.

2013-04-17 00:00:00