Chicago :: IL :: USA
| about 9 hours ago
Harvey Milk is not the only figure getting the big-screen treatment in the coming weeks. As good as Sean Penn is playing the lead, there are other performers who will be vying for kudos during this award season...Others promise to breathe real-life drama...
Tags: nobel prize
London :: United Kingdom
| 3 days ago
Nobel Peace Prize winners called on governments on Thursday to act to ensure that millions of children in war zones can go to school. In an open letter to world leaders and combatants in war zones, 31 Nobel laureates said that more than 70 million children...
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London :: United Kingdom
| 3 days ago
The Australian-pioneered cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has been awarded the drug industry equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Gardasil beat major blockbuster cancer drugs and an anti-smoking medication to win the pharmaceutical industry's top gong, the...
Tags: nobel prize, cervical cancer, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, cancer vaccination
Lyman :: WY :: USA
| 11 days ago
EDT Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times, won the Nobel Prize for economics. Krugman, who also teaches at Princeton University, won for his analysis of international trade patterns, the newspaper reported Monday.
Tags: Paul Krugman, Mr. Krugman, nobel prize
New Delhi :: India
| 14 days ago
Nobel-winning author Nadine Gordimer, who touched down in the city en route to Kolkata, speaks of her characters and the inspirations behind them Some story-tellers have the ability to stun you into silence. ThatÂ’s exactly what 85-year-old Nobel laureate...
Tags: nobel prize, Dr Nadine Gordimer, laureate nadine, nobel laureate
London :: United Kingdom
| 16 days ago
But the BBC World Service director, Nigel Chapman, has responded forcefully to the group, which also includes the historian Antony Beevor and the director of English Pen, Jonathan Heawood,. Chapman said the overall loss to the schedule was 19 hours, many...
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Nairobi :: Kenya
| 17 days ago
And the world is joining in This moment of pure greatness will prove an inspiration not just for Africa's young people, but for our leaders too This morning I am going to Uhuru Park in Nairobi to plant a tree. A plaque on it will read: "This was planted...
Tags: president, nobel prize, Wangari Maathai
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 20 days ago
38 Foreign currency reserves totaled $35.2 billion at the end of October, $957 less than at the end of September, the Bank of Israel reported today. Foreign currency purchases by the Bank of Israel, under its program to increase foreign currency reserves...
Tags: israel, nobel prize, Bank of Israel, usa, Israeli, foreign currency, currency reserves, financial crisis
West Palm Beach :: FL :: USA
| 23 days ago
Al Gore returned to West Palm Beach, Fla., ground zero of the controversial 2000 presidential campaign, to stump for Democratic candidate Barack Obama . "Don't let anyone take your vote away from you or talk you into throwing it away," said Gore, former...
Tags: president, obama, vote, mccain, presidential race, campaign, popular vote, 2000, votes, Al Gore, nobel prize, bush, race
Stockholm :: Sweden
| 28 days ago
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, the 2008 year Nobel Prize winner in literature, has accepted another Swedish prize for his work. Swedish news agency TT says Le Clezio on Saturday accepted the Stig Dagerman Prize, worth $8,000 Cdn, at a ceremony in Alvkarleby,...
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