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Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on Iran and the United States to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, warning that military action would harm ordinary people.Ebadi told a group of activists Thursday that she...
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Russian news agencies say author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning chronicler of the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure. He was...
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The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists said on Friday that only seven years were left for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at...
made popular Jul 5 2008
AP, Salt Lake City
University of Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi got a bonus after winning the Nobel Prize for medicine last fall: He learned he has a younger sister.Capecchi, 70, and...
made popular Jun 7 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar’s military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention by one year Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate...
made popular May 27 2008
AP, Patna
Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel...
made popular May 21 2008
AP, Tucson
Willis E. Lamb Jr., a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He...
made popular May 20 2008
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Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.At a...
made popular Apr 3 2008
AP, Wallingford
Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.At a...
made popular Apr 3 2008
AP, Washington
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA Director James Woolsey are among 25 religious, academic and legal figures calling on the U.S....
made popular Apr 2 2008
AP, Tokyo
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe won a major court battle Friday over a book he wrote more than 30 years ago detailing how Japanese soldiers persuaded and sometimes forced...
made popular Mar 28 2008
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Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and 25 other Nobel laureates on Thursday condemned the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on Tibetan protesters and called on...
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Nobel laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa was treated for a clogged coronary artery and will have a heart pacemaker implanted Friday, doctors said.Walesa...
made popular Feb 28 2008
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Nobel laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa had a stent placed in his heart to open a partially blocked artery.Doctors at the Methodist DeBakey Heart and...
made popular Feb 28 2008
AP, Oslo
Nearly 200 individuals and organizations have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the second-highest number ever, a Nobel official said Wednesday.The secretive...
made popular Feb 27 2008
AP, London
Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, who greeted news of her victory with the words, “I couldn’t care less,” received her prize Wednesday night at...
made popular Jan 30 2008
AP, Brussels
Akzo Nobel NV on Friday won EU approval for its $17.1 billion acquisition of Imperial Chemicals Industries PLC, but it must sell off Britain’s Crown Paints and an...
made popular Dec 14 2007
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Stars performing at a concert Tuesday honoring Nobel Peace laureates Al Gore and the United Nations climate panel said they hoped to draw attention to global...
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Excerpts from former Vice President Al Gore’s acceptance speech Monday for the Nobel Peace Prize he shared with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Monday he believes the next U.S. president will shift the country’s course on climate change and engage in global efforts to...
made popular Dec 10 2007
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Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress’ announcement that she had been named the new U.S....
made popular Jul 18 2008
AP, Amsterdam
Historians investigating the life of a Dutch Nobel chemistry laureate who worked in Germany during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime found the scientist complied with...
made popular Nov 27 2007
The Library of congress has named, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic as the new U.S. poet laureate. Simic was given the place of Donald Hall, another poet. The...
made popular Aug 5 2007
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