Nobel winner has Vermont ties
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Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH&#39;-ree mah-DY&#39;) of Kenya serves on the board of trustees for World Learning, the parent organization of the School for International Training in Brattleboro.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, who launched a powerful grass-roots environmental movement nearly 30 years ago by planting trees in her backyard, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for work that also involved empowering women and fighting government corruption.
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Edward C. Prescott and Finn E. Kydland won this year&#39;s Nobel prize in economics for work that recognized the importance of productivity in business cycles and encouraged central banks to set long-term goals for fighting inflation.
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - A Norwegian and an American won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their work illustrating how the world&#39;s money supply affects international trade.
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OSLO, Norway The Nobel Peace Prize will, for the first time, be handed to an environmentalist. Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH&#39;-ree mah-DY) will formally receive the honor today in Oslo, Norway.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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One winner was lecturing in Norway when he found out. The other was sleeping in Arizona. Finn Kydland of Norway and American Edward Prescott -- colleagues since the 1970s -- learned Monday they had won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - American researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell - showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter...
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Columbia University researcher Richard Axel, 58, and Seattle scientist Linda Buck, 57, were named Monday as the winners of this yearâs Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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Two US-based professors have won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Economics. The award has gone to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott for their work in a field known as dynamic macro-economics.
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Three Americans shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in increasing science's understanding of the forces that bind together the smallest pieces of matter, known as quarks.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners Wednesday did their best to explain what they did and how they did it.
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American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.
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For apparently the first time in state history, an Arizona researcher has won a Nobel prize. But it was Arizona State University officials making the announcement, not the University of Arizona.
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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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NPR.org, October 8, 2004 Â· Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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NYERI (Kenya) - Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and vowed to use her award money to strengthen her campaign to save Africa&#39;s forests.