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A not-so-noble Nobel laureate (The Age)
Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist who was the co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases, has died in a hotel room in Tromso, Norway.
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Budget cruises: The best new year deals (Daily Telegraph)
Cruising can represent excellent value in hard times. Tim Jepson looks at what's new this year and highlights some of the great deals available.
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Town makes most of winter (Canoe Travel)
The weather outside was frightful, the fire inside delightful.
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D. Carleton Gajdusek dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner identified exotic disease, was unrepentant pedophile (Los Angeles Times)
Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, the brilliant yet deeply flawed pediatrician, virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his identification and description of kuru, the exotic disease of a remote tribe in New Guinea that was caused by a family of mysterious agents called prions, died Dec. 12 at the hotel where he lived in Tromso, Norway. He was 85.
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Earth Hour Participation Could Reach One Billion in WWF's Call to Action on Climate Change (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Launched today against the backdrop of United Nations climate negotiations in Poland, Earth Hour 2009 aims for one-sixth of the world's population to participate in its global lights-out event next March.
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