To get a better idea of how toxic rat poisons are for different birds of prey, a team of scientists led by Philippe Thomas from Environment Canada decided to analyze published data on rat poisoning in birds.
Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison born 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, is perhaps the most celebrated contemporary American novelist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies of displacement and slavery that have been bequeathed to the African-American community.
Jean-Paul Sartre. French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the only people to ever refuse to accept a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1964, but he refused to accept the award for personal reasons.