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Tuesday Dec 15 | The Boston Globe

Michael Crichtona s final work, a Pirate Latitudesa

Know this, if you dive into "Pirate Latitudes,'' Michael Crichton's 17th-century high seas adventure: The Englishmen who plunder Spanish treasure ships here are not pirates.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

Washington Times

BOOKS: 'Pirate Latitudes'

PIRATE LATITUDES By Michael Crichton Harper, $27.99, 312 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.

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Sat Dec 12, 2009

Taipei Times

Hardcover: US: One final adventure

Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton s posthumously published story, follows the uncomplicated form of the author s early work By Michael Berry NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, Dec 13, 2009, Page 14 When Michael Crichton died of cancer last year, he left in his files a complete manuscript, now published as Pirate Latitudes.

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Austin American Statesman

'Pirate Latitudes': Thriller king's lost booty

Hoist the Jolly Roger above the best-seller list, ye mateys, 'cause Michael Crichton has just published a swashbuckling pirate thriller.

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Fri Dec 04, 2009

Mother Jones

How ExxonMobil Funds the Anti Global Warming Forces

Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Exxon Mobil, Oil & Gas, Energy, Vocal, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, James Inhofe

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Cleveland.com

Michael Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' has plenty of attitude and...

When Michael Crichton died a year ago, he left completed on his desk the manuscript for this, his 16th novel, a characteristically riveting and marvelously improbable tale of English pirates on the trail of a Spanish treasure ship.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

USA Today

Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' has the loot: Gore, sex, action

Three months later, the manuscript of P irate Latitudes was found in one of his computers.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

DVD Verdict

Pursuit

The ultimate weapon is about to be unleashed! Michael Crichton's first turn in the director's chair revolves around a frantic hunt for an extremist political fringe group looking to kill the President and send the country into a tailspin.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Pursuit, Vocal, E.G. Marshall, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Ben Gazzara

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Edmonton Journal

Stranger than truth

Michael Crichton -- the world's top selling science-fiction writer, by far -- has taken a lot of flak in recent years for bending the truth in his novels.

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Related Topix: Vocal, US Politics, US News, Oceanography, Science, Opinion

Mon Sep 14, 2009

Daily Evergreen

The tyranny of the academy

In his 2004 novel 'State of Fear,' the late author Michael Crichton observed that our institutions of higher learning, where young people were once safe to explore a variety of sometimes unconventional and even radical ideas, have in recent decades quietly come to fulfill a very different role.

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Related Topix: Vocal, University of Idaho, Non-Profit, Rutgers University, University of Washington

Sat Sep 05, 2009

Art Daily

A Conversation with Award-Winning Writer Mary Dickson at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Award-winning writer Mary Dickson will participate in a post-film discussion of The Andromeda Strain on Wednesday, September 9 at 6 pm at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts .

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Related Topix: Fine Arts, Arts, Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, Mystery Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Vocal, Theater

Wed Sep 02, 2009

The Times of India

Spielberg unveils his 'dreams' for India

MUMBAI: As far as the Indian entertainment business goes, it doesn't get bigger than this one.

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Sat Aug 29, 2009

Ain't It Cool News

Senor Spilebergo Wants To Make A Pirate Movie Based On A Yet To Be...

Steven Spielberg is developing a feature film based on PIRATE LATITUDES, a posthumously published Michael Crichton novel that won't hit stores until late November.

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Fri Aug 28, 2009

UPI

Spielberg producing Crichton 'Pirate' film

Hollywood's DreamWorks Studios has acquired the rights to the late Michael Crichton 's last manuscript, a 17th century pirate yarn.

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Thu Aug 27, 2009

DVD Dungeon

Steven Spielberg Boards Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes

According to USA Today , Steven Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton.

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DVD Dungeon

Steven Spielberg Boards Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes

According to USA Today , Steven Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton.

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Tue Jul 28, 2009

411mania.com

A Star is Born 7.28.09: Michael Crichton

A Star is Born 7.28.09: Michael Crichton Posted by Dan Baltrusis on 07.28.2009 We all love his books, but how well were they translated into movies? I remember the first day I ever picked up a Michael Crichton book.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

South Bend Tribune

Here's the book list

The top selling books of 1969, according to Publisher's Weekly, are: 1. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

KQED

New Nanoparticles Shed Light on Cell Behavior

A cell imaged with an optical microscope. The same cell imaged by allowing the cell to absorb UCNPs and then irradiating it with infrared light.

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