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Poet Burnside wins prize overshadowed by funding row (Reuters)

  • Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:37 pm

LONDON (Reuters) ? Scottish writer John Burnside on Monday won the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, overshadowed this year by the withdrawal of two nominees over a sponsorship deal with an investment company.

Burnside picked up the coveted honor for “Black Cat Bone,” which the judges described as “a haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory, human longing and loneliness.”

He also won the Whitbread poetry award in 2000 for “The Asylum Dance” and this year beat seven other nominees including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy for her latest collection “The Bees.”

Duffy spoke out in support of the Poetry Book Society, which runs the annual T.S. Eliot award but has come under fire for agreeing a three-year sponsorship deal with private investment management firm Aurum.

The agreement was necessary after the government cut funding for the society as part of a wide-ranging spending review to bring down the budget deficit.

“In my case I spent a lot of time last year trying to get support for the Poetry Book Society, which suffered 100 per cent cuts,” Duffy told Channel 4 News.

“I can only congratulate them in managing to carry on with the administration of this prize. My conscience told me to support the Poetry Book Society.

“It wouldn’t have been a great thing if all the poets had lined up thinking it was their duty (to withdraw). It’s very much an individual decision.”

Australian John Kinsella, who was shortlisted for “Armour,” said he had withdrawn on ethical grounds as “an anti-capitalist in full-on form.”

He said he did not have any specific objection against Aurum Funds, but added that hedge funds were “at the very pointy end of capitalism, if I can put it that way.”

Kinsella joined Alice Oswald, who pulled out for similar reasons. She had been shortlisted for “Memorial.”

Burnside picked up a check for 15,000 pounds ($23,000), and each of the nominated authors received 1,000 pounds.

The award is also supported by the T.S. Eliot Estate, guardians of the 20th century American-British poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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The Patient Scientist (preview)

  • Posted on December 22, 2011 at 11:38 am

Feature Articles | Health Cover Image: January 2012 Scientific American MagazineSee Inside

When Ralph M. Steinman developed pancreatic cancer, he put his own theories about cancer and the immune system to the test. They kept him alive longer than expected?but three days short of learning he had won the Nobel Prize

By Katherine Harmon ?| December 20, 2011


Image: Illustration by Roberto Parada

In Brief

  • Ralph M. Steinman was the first person to describe dendritic cells, which play a key role in initiating immune responses. He named them for their treelike limbs.

  • Dendritic cells, which ?teach? other immune cells what to attack, now make up the core of many experimental vaccines against cancer and HIV.

  • When Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007, he and a network of colleagues turned to these new vaccines to treat his disease.

  • His colleagues believe the vaccines helped to extend his life well beyond the norm. He died just three days before winning the Nobel Prize.

Peering through a microscope at a plate of cells one day, Ralph M. Steinman spied something no one had ever seen before. It was the early 1970s, and he was a researcher at the Rockefeller University on Manhattan?s Upper East Side. At the time, scientists were still piecing together the basic building blocks of the immune system. They had figured out that there are B cells, white blood cells that help to identify foreign invaders, and T cells, another type of white blood cell that attacks those invaders. What puzzled them, however, was what triggered those T cells and B cells to go to work in the first place. Steinman glimpsed what he thought might be the missing piece: strange, spindly-armed cells unlike any he had ever noticed.



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