Preservation & Ecology
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Pianists Jeremy Denk and Vijay Iyer and Karen Russell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her 2011 novel, “Swamplandia,” are among the winners of the 2013 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur “genius” grants.
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The owners of Knut, the Berlin polar bear reared by zookeepers after his mother abandoned him, won a European Union court challenge over the EU-wide trademark rights to the animal’s name.
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A heart clinic in Sudan, a bazaar in Iran, and an Islamic cemetery in Austria were three of the five winners of the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, worth a total of $1 million and announced in Lisbon today.
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Where’s the judicial hush -- the cherry wood paneling and shiny brass that dignify the scrutiny of subparagraphs, the balancing of crime and punishment?
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