SYRACUSE (New York) - W.D. SNODGRASS, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, died at his upstate New York home after a four-month battle with inoperable lung cancer. He was 83.
His family said he died on Tuesday at his home in Madison County, just east of Syracuse.
SOUTH POLE - MONACO'S Prince Albert II has reached the South Pole after a two-day-long cross-country ski trip across Antarctica, fraught by wind and fog.
The prince, whose team included a doctor and his friend, South African adventurer Mike Horn, reached the Pole at 1947 GMT (3.47am Singapore time) on Tuesday. Temperatures during the journey reached minus 40 deg C.
LOS ANGELES - INDIANA Jones and 'The Mummy' slayer are teaming up on the big screen - to battle not ancient, otherworldly baddies, but a big medical dilemma.
Brendan Fraser will join Harrison Ford for a medical drama set to begin filming in April, CBS Films announced Wednesday. The untitled movie will be the first production for CBS Films, a feature film division established in 2007.
