'Alternative Nobels' Awarded in Sweden
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The winners of this year's Right Livelihood Awards - dubbed the "alternative Nobels" - received their prizes Thursday from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony at parliament.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward  Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize on  Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more  independent central banks and explained business cycles.
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The 2004 Nobel winners for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday.
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Former Swedish Prime Minister Gran Persson has been awarded the tenth annual Sofie prize for his environmental efforts.Comment
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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Two economists known for their work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year&#39;s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said yesterday.
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Recipients of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor the best in oddball research, run the gamut from a nudist library to a psychology experiment featuring a man in a gorilla suit to a recent finding that herrings communicate by farting. By Mark Baard.
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STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 7: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, regarded as controversial and abrasive for her attacks on the Austrian establishment was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward  Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize  Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more  independent central banks and explained business cycles.
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Royalty, scientists, business leaders and diplomats began gathering in the capitals of Sweden and Norway on Friday for the traditional twin ceremonies honoring the year's Nobel Prize winners from Kenya, ...
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Some Swedes may need a lip retread. Sweden's state-owned pharmacy Apoteket is looking for volunteers to pucker their way into the record books.
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Oct. 7, 2004 - Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for &quot;the weak&quot; whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Stockholm takes center-stage on Dec. 10, when the Nobel committee awards its prestigious prizes for chemistry, medicine, physics, economics and literature.
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The King of Sweden was not there and the circumstances were a bit short of pompous, but 15 intrepid scientists attained a modicum of fame last week as this year&#39;s winners of coveted Ig Nobel Prizes.
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While Nobel Prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...