NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The NHL Wednesday named Ottawa's Jason Spezza, Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk and San Jose goalie Evgeny Nabokov as its three top stars for December.

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Despite societal changes over the half-century since its original publication, Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" is no less disturbing.

NEW YORK, May 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. literary scholar has speculated the infamous classic "Lolita" may have been derived from a 1916 short story of the same name and subject.

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FRANKFURT, Germany, March 19 (UPI) -- A short story written 40 years before Vladimir Nabokov's famous "Lolita" with the same title and many of the same characteristics has been found.