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New thinking on consumers gets Nobel speculation

AP News 45 days ago

Last '09 Nobel, economics prize may honor time-tested research or new thinking on consumers As the globe grapples with the problem of greenhouse gases and tries to restore the battered economy to health, research into the economics of climate change or the ...

Gasps as Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize

AP News 46 days ago

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize in vote seen as encouraging his promise of diplomacy, disarmament The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges ...

'Humbled' Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

AFP Global Edition 47 days ago

US President Barack Obama sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, just nine months into his term, with the jury hailing his "extraordinary" efforts in international diplomacy and to hasten nuclear disarmament. Obama said he was "humbled" by the distinction but ...

'Extraordinary' Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

AFP American Edition 47 days ago

US President Barack Obama sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday less than a year after he took office with the jury hailing his "extraordinary" diplomatic efforts on the international stage. "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent ...

Nobel winners cited for ongoing or recent work

AP News 47 days ago

List of Nobel winners cited for peace work carried out right before the announcement _ 1978: egyptian president anwar al-sadat and israeli prime minister menachem begin for middle east peace efforts, specifically the camp david peace accords signed on sept. Nobel Prize ...

Mueller wins Nobel for depictions of life under communism

AFP Global Edition 48 days ago

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania. The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who "with the concentration of poetry and the ...

Mueller wins Nobel Prize for depictions of life under communism

AFP Global Edition 48 days ago

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania. The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who "with the concentration of poetry and the ...

Herta Mueller wins Nobel Literature Prize

AFP Global Edition 48 days ago

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania. The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who "with the concentration of poetry and the ...

Efficient market theory guru Fama tipped for Nobel

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 48 days ago

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - American economist Eugene Fama, considered the father of the efficient market theory, is the favorite to win this year's Nobel economics prize, due to be announced on Monday. In the simplest terms, the theory holds that markets are the ...

Nobel Peace prize seeks return to activist roots

Reuters US Online Report World News 49 days ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Wanted - a peace maker or rights activist engaged in a current conflict whose influence would benefit greatly from winning the Nobel Peace Prize. That is who Norway's Nobel Committee will choose for 2009 Peace Prize laureate if, as ...

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