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Fiction
1."The Bridges of Madison County" ... Robert James Waller
2."The Client" ... John Grisham
3."Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend" ... Robert James Waller
4."Without Remorse" ... Tom Clancey
5."Nightmares and Dreamscapes" ... Stephen King
6."Vanished" ... Danielle Steel
7."Lasher" ... Anne Rice
8."Pleading Guilty" ... Scott Turow
9."Like Water for Chocolate" ... Laura Esquivel
10."The Scorpio Illusion" ... Robert Ludlum
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Nonfiction
1."See I Told You" ... Rush Limbaugh
2."Private Parts" ... Howard Stern
3."Seinlanguage" ... Jerry Seinfeld
4."Embraced by the Light" ... Betty J. Eddie with Curtis Taylor
5."Ageless Body, Timeless Mind" ... Deepak Chopra
6."Stop the Insanity" ... Susan Powter
7."Women Who Run With the Wolves" ... Clarissa Pinkola
8."Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" ... John Gray
9."The Hidden Life of Dogs" ... Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
10."And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend" ... Harvey Penick with
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Grammy Awards

Record of the Year: "I Will Always Love You" ... Whitney Houston
Song of the Year: "A Whole New World" (Theme from "Aladdin)
Best Album: "The Bodyguard" ... Original Soundtrack
Male Vocalist: Sting ... "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You"
Female Vocalist: Whitney Houston ... "I Will Always Love You"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was awarded "for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry" by one half to: MULLIS, KARY B., U.S.A., La Jolla, CA, b. 1944: "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method" and by the other half to: SMITH, MICHAEL, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, b. 1932 (in Blackpool, England): "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleiotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"

Literature
MORRISON, TONI, U.S.A., b. 1931: "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: MANDELA, NELSON, South Africa, b. 1918: Leader of the ANC. DE KLERK, FREDRIK WILLEM, South Africa, b. 1936: President of the Republic of South Africa.

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
The prize was awarded jointly to: ROBERTS, RICHARD J., Great Britain, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, U.S.A., b. 1943; and SHARP, PHILLIP A., U.S.A., Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, b. 1944: "for their discoveries of split genes"

Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: HULSE, RUSSELL A., U.S.A., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, b. 1950; and TAYLOR Jr., JOSEPH H., U.S.A., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, b. 1941: "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Tony Kushner ... "Angels in America: Millenium Approaches"
Fiction: Robert Olen Butler ... "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain"
History: Gordon S. Wood ... "The Radicalism of the American Revolution"
International Reporting: John F. Burns ... "New York Times" & Roy Gutman ... "New York Newsday"
National Reporting: David Maraniss ... "Washington Post"
Public Service: "Miami Herald"