Inuit, Polish Holocaust savior among Nobel nominees
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An Inuit activist and a 96-year-old Polish woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust are among the 181 nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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A Kenyan environmental activist whose children graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today.
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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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Wangari Maathai of Kenya won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions in Africa, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been given a new and important meaning for the 21st century. For the first time, the honor has gone to an African woman, and to an environmentalist.
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Speculation grows ahead of the announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Every year for more than 20 years, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded a Nobel Prize for physics. And every year, Frank Wilczek has looked forward to the announcement with a mixture of excitement and dread.
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South African AIDS campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards ends this week with the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize winners.    The first announcement comes Monday with the physiology or medicine prize, followed by a week of announcements of winners for physics, chemistry, economics, peace and possibly literature...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, who on Friday accepted the award in Oslo with a speech lauding a clean, sustainable environment as a key to peace, has spent much of her life defending Africa&#39;s forests.
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A Canadian AIDS group said yesterday it is unfortunate that the winner of the Nobel Peace Price, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, had depicted the deadly virus as a biological weapon invented by the West to wipe out Africans.
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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was honoured Friday for her efforts to help women, clean up the environment and battle corruption.
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Scientists and economists from the  United States, Israel and Norway received their Nobel prizes on  Friday at a ceremony marked by the conspicuous absence of  literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.
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OSLO, Dec 10 (IPS) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, is the first  African woman to take the Nobel, and never before has an  environmental cause been honoured by the Nobel committee since  the prize was first awarded in 1901.
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.