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NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Spike Lee and Sam Pollard have won a George Polk Award for their documentary on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" was directed by both Lee and Pollard and was selected for the documentary category of the annual George Polk Awards.
Other Polk honorees this year include: Lydia Polgreen of The New York Times for foreign reporting; NBC News' Lisa Myers and Adam Ciralsky for network television reporting; Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of the Hartford Courant for military reporting; Robert Little of the Baltimore Sun for medical reporting;
Kenneth Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling of The Los Angeles Times for environmental reporting; Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of The Wall Street Journal for business reporting; Jeff Kosseff, Bryan Denson and Les Zaitz of The Oregonian for national reporting; Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald for metropolitan reporting;
The staff of the Lakefront Outlook, in the Chicago area, for local reporting; Ray Ring of the High Country News in Wyoming for political reporting; and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, American Public Media and Living on Earth for radio reporting.
The journalism awards, named for the CBS correspondent murdered covering the Greek civil war in 1948, are given by Long Island University and selected by a committee of university faculty members and alumni. The awards are to formally be presented April 12 in New York.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Ships supplying the U.S. base in Antarctica are relying on Russian icebreakers to provide shipping channels, with few available U.S. cutters, officials said.
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A funeral is being planned for songstress Whitney Houston in her hometown of Newark, N.J., later this week, sources close to her family told NBC New York.
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SYDNEY, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Researchers in Australia are developing a solar roof system that uses wasted energy to warm air and water.
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NEWPORT, R.I., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Lottery officials said Monday the winning $336.4 million Powerball ticket was sold at a Rhode Island convenience store, but the winner had yet to come forward.
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