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The impact of the coming Digital TV transition and the impact of HDTV is making TV buying decisions for consumers more complex. However, will current TVs still work when digital...

Life in the United States is like genetically engineered fruit, heart surgeon Dr. Karam Doss tells Nagi Abd al-Samad, a student in histology at the University of Illinois Medical School. It's "shiny and appetizing on the outside, but tasteless."

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Web Exclusive: 'Millionaire' continues awards sweep -- 'Slumdog Millionaire' continued its awards sweep Friday night at the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards after walking away with the org's top prize.In a show of appreciation for the event's unique nature of recognizing both screenwriter and author of an adapted work, 'Slumdog' scribe Simon Beaufoy said, 'We don't really have anything like this in Great Britain.'A first-ever for the award, the night's winner was announced during the gala.'It's an extraordinary honor to be here tonight,' Beaufoy said, 'partly because I've been in love with Jamie Lee Curtis for many, many years.'Curtis, emcee for the gala held at USC's Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, entertained the crowd with her own share of one-liners.'There's nothing I love more than the written word, especially for someone who's grown up in the show business, or the show-off business as I like to call it.'Scribe Steven Zaillian presented Michael Chabon with th

Your novel. Four hundred pages of excitement, passion and sly social comment, currently languishing in your sock drawer. You poured into it everything you had; your immediate family loved it; your friends couldn't put it down. So why won't anyone publish it? Is it a) because the literary world is a members-only clique dedicated to keeping out new talent; b) because publishers and agents are chronically lazy and simply couldn't be bothered to read to the amazing ending, which is the entire point of the story; or c) because it's a load of pony from start to finish. You know the answer as well as I do, but you won't be told. You have read manuals about how to write novels, you may even have attended a writer's group. Still, like Belshazzar at the feast, you understood not the writing on the wall. Well, here it is again, in bigger letters. To find out exactly how your work has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, read How Not to Write a Novel, in which Sandra Newman and Howard Mi