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		<title>Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Named as one of Ten &#8220;Best Books of the Year &#8230; So Far&#8221; by Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com calls The Immortal Life one of the &#8220;must-reads of the year,&#8221; naming it one of the top ten &#8220;Best Books of the Year&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Dish Doesn&#8217;t Live at ScienceBlogs Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious conflict of interest and transparency problem has arisen on ScienceBlogs. Like several other bloggers here, I'm now on a Pepsi-Induced Hiatus, however like like David Dobb's and Blake Stacy, my hiatus from ScienceBlogs will be permanent.
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		<title>Rebecca Skloot Talks About How Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe and Hurricane Carter Helped Her Find the Structure of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a video interview on the Read and Roll show: &#8220;Skloot explains how two unlikely influences helped her shape “a rare and powerful combination of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah and Alan Ball to Make Film of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very exciting news:  Oprah and Alan Ball have teamed up with HBO to create the film version of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.  Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Climbs to #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very exciting news:  Next week, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will be listed as #2 on the NYT Bestseller List.  
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		<title>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Debuts on The New York Times Bestseller List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after its publication, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has hit the New York Times Bestseller List at #5!
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		<title>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in Wired: Visual Map of HeLa’s Contributions</title>
		<link>http://rebeccaskloot.com/2010/01/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-in-wired-visual-map-of-hela%e2%80%99s-contributions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired magazine has just published a piece about my book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, with this wonderful visual map showing the myriad ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popular Science Magazine Names “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” as Its February Book of the Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular Science Magazine just named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as their book of the Month for February 2010, calling her story “remarkable,” and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barnes and Noble Anxiously Awaits The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Today the Barnes and Noble Review posted “20 Books We’re Waiting For” in 2010, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was on it, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today: Nobel Prize Awarded for Telomerase Discovery, and the 58th Anniversary of Henrietta Lacks&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fitting that today &#8212; the day after the 58th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks&#8217;s death &#8212; the Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to [...]]]></description>
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