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    BBC: India

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  • The NYC-based e-commerce lingerie startup is taking a novel approach to selling its (under)wares by shipping customers multiple sizes of their chosen garment and allowing them to keep only the one that fits.

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  • The rat-turns-chef movie beat out "Persepolis, " based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, and "Surf's Up, " a computer-animated film about penguins.

    CNN: 'Old Men,' Europeans seize Oscars

  • Directed by Satoshi Kon, who mixes drawn and digital materials, and based on a novel by the science-fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutsui.

    NEWYORKER: Paprika

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  • In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.

    BBC: Ang Lee 'pulls out of FX TV project Tyrant to rest'

  • In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).

    CNN: 'Benjamin Button' hooks 13 Oscar nominations

  • As for the pretty younger woman, that's where writer-director Scott Cooper's otherwise bull-free first feature, based on a novel by Thomas Cobb, goes soft.

    CNN: Review: 'Crazy Heart' an indie charmer

  • Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.

    UNESCO: 2010 UK and Ireland Winners

  • This is difficult watching a movie based on an 1, 168-page novel that you can practically recite from memory.

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  • US-based shoppers who bought the new JK Rowling novel have been hit by a glitch that made it difficult to read.

    BBC: JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy ebook suffers glitches

  • This allegation, not included in the Starr referral, is even more curious than the previous one, because it's based on a novel legal theory, which is -- jeopardizes all lawyers in the building -- which is that a client has an enforceable obligation to correct his attorney's alleged misstatements, and if he doesn't make those corrections, he, the client, will be held liable to charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

    CNN

  • Rachel Trezise, from Rhondda, wins through for her collection of short stories, Fresh Apples, while Zimbabwean-based schoolteacher Ian Holding is shortlisted for his first novel, Unfeeling.

    BBC: The six writers shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

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  • Despite being based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling novel, there was little Hollywood interest in making the film and a number of leading actresses turned down the part before it was offered to Richardson.

    BBC: Obituary: Natasha Richardson

  • Based on Jennifer Weiner's best-selling novel, the film is excellent when portraying the lifelong disconnect between two loving sisters: Maggie (Cameron Diaz), a kleptomaniac with no fixed employment and a fondness for one-night stands, and Rose (Toni Collette), who has nothing in her life but her job in a law firm.

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  • The script, based on a novel by Warren Miller, is equally wide-ranging, with its depictions of relationships stripped raw by rough circumstances.

    NEWYORKER: The Cool World

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    NEWYORKER: Despair

  • In doing so, Susie follows the narrative path set for her in the striking 2002 novel by Alice Sebold on which this much-awaited adaptation by Peter Jackson is based.

    CNN: Review: 'The Lovely Bones'

  • Perhaps the most novel non-gaming function of the tablet-esque controller is its IR-based universal remote control ability -- the GamePad can be used to control your HDTV (well, "most" HDTVs) in some basic, but very important, ways.

    ENGADGET: Nintendo Wii U review HD

  • The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.

    NPR: 'On the Road' at 50

  • Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns--so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns-so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

    FORBES: Where the Outback Meets the Sea

  • Co-author Kit Macleod, senior research scientist at the James Hutton Institute based in Aberdeen, said a long-term project had been developing novel forage grasses but their environmental benefits had not really been tested.

    BBC: Hybrid grass 'could reduce flooding impact'

  • The screenplay, by Seth Bass and Jonathan Tolins, based on a novel by David Gerrold, offers heartwarming, tearjerking, stand-up-and-cheer moments that only a golem could resist, but Meyjes never conjures a world, inner or outer, so the result is just a string of effective scenes, an illustrated script rather than an experience.

    NEWYORKER: Martian Child

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