• Hubble Telescope Launched
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• Failed Kremlin Coup
• Rajiv Ghandi Killed
• Cambodia Civil War Ends
• Free Elections in Taiwan
• Eritrea Independent
• U.S. Announces Massive Nuclear Cutback
• U.S.S.R. Comes to a Formal End

Fiction
1."The Firm" ... John Grisham
2."Loves Music, Loves to Dance" ... Mary Higgins Clark
3."Possession: A Romance" ... A.S. Byatt
4."As the Crow Flies" ... Jeffery Archer
4."Star Wars: Heir to the Empire" ... Timothy Zahn
5."The Kitchen God's Wife" ... Amy Tan
5."The Sum of All Fears" ... Tom Clancey
6."Damage" ... H Josephine Hart
6."Heartbeat" ... Danielle Steel
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Nonfiction
1."Iron John: A Book About Men" ... Robert Bly
2."Wealth Without Risk" ... Charles J. Givens
3."Financial Self-Defense" ... Charles J. Givens
4."Homecoming" ... John Bradshaw
5."Parliament of Whores" ... P.J. O'Rouke
6."Chutzpah" ... Alan Dershowitz
7."Toujours Provence" ... Peter Mayle
8."Fire in the Belly...On Being a Man" ... Sam Keen
8."Final Exit" ... Derek Humphry
8."DO IT! Let's Get Off Our Buts" ... John Roger & Peter McWilliams
9."Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator" ...
Robert Fulghum
10."You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" ...
Deborah Tannen
10."The Civil War: An Illustrated History" ... Geoffery C. Ward with
Ric Burns & Ken Burns
10."A Life on the Road" ... Charles Kuralt
10."The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" ... Daniel
Yergin

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Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

ERNST, RICHARD R., Switzerland, Eidgensssische Technische Hochschule Zurich, b. 1933:

"for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high
resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
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Literature

GORDIMER, NADINE, South Africa, b. 1923:

"who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"
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Peace

KYI, DAW AUNG SAN SUU, Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.
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PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

The prize was awarded jointly to:

NEHER, ERWIN, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie,
Gsttingen, b. 1944; and

SAKMANN, BERT, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut fur Medizinische Forschung,
Heidelberg, b. 1942:

"for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in
cells"
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Physics

de GENNES, PIERRE-GILLES, France, College de France, Paris, b. 1932:

"for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in
simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in
particular to liquid crystals and polymers"

Academy Awards

Record of the Year: Song of the Year: Album of the Year: Male Vocalist: Female Vocalist:	"Unforgettable" ... Natalie Cole with Nat "King" Cole "Unforgetable" ... Irving Gordon "Unforgetable" ... Natalie Cole Michael Bolton ... "When a Man Loves a Woman" Bonnie Raitt ... "Something to Talk About"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "Lost in Yonkers" ... Neil Simon
Best Musical: "The Will Rogers Follies"
Best Actor in a play:Nigel Hawthorne ... "Shadowlands"
Best Actress in a play:Mercedes Ruehl ... "Lost in Yonkers"
Best Actor in a musical:Jonathan Pryce ... "Miss Saigon"
Best Actress in a musical:Lea Salonga ... "Miss Saigon"

Pulitzer Prize

Drama: Fiction: History: International Reporting: National Reporting: Public Service:

Neil Simon ... "Lost in Yonkers" John Updike ... "Rabbit at Rest" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ... "A Midwife's Tale" Caryle Murphy ... " Washington Post" Serge Schmemann ... "New York Times"Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele ...Marjie Lundstrom & Rochelle Sharpe ... "Gannett News Service" "Des Moines Register"