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Joseph Story, at age 32, was the youngest justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is awarded to Harald zur Hausen (Germany) for "his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and to Fran�oise Barr�-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (both France) for "their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"

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