From cancer to quantum, teens’ scientific feats celebrated

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Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:00 pm | Updated: 12:12 pm, Tue May 15, 2012.

Gay literature’s new wrinkle

This week sees the publication of "The Hunger Angel," by the Romanian-born German author Herta Müller. It’s her first novel to appear in English since she won the Nobel Prize three years ago, and the book, set in a Soviet labor camp in the years after World War II, arrives in America trailing behind it a passel of rave reviews in the European press: a masterpiece, they say, to be put next to ...