Matthiessen Wins National Book Award for Fiction

Peter Matthiessen has been awarded the 2008 National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, his Everglades trilogy.

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OmniMedicalSearch.com: Medical Search Engine

OmniMedicalSearch.com was created to bring the best sources of medical information together on one comprehensive search platform to help make user research more thorough, practical and convenient," Founder Jason L Morrow said. "When it comes to health and medical information, the integrity of the search results is a priority."

Morrow explained that unlike the general search engines, the medical sources that OMS queries are carefully selected to provide users with reliable and definitive information from reputable sources. By keeping his medical search engine focused on authoritative sources, Morrow hopes to keep out the snake oil salesmen and scam artists.

OmniMedicalSearch.com has recently added a medical image search tool to it's site.

"Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton Dead

Michael Crichton, author of such novels as "Jurassic Park", "The Andromedea Strain" and "Rising Sun" has died of Cancer at age 66.