Nobel Peace Prize winner itching for a fight
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When Muhammad Yunus travels to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, he will come prepared to fight for management control over a company he believes is sucking profits from the poor of Bangladesh.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai - this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner - has been called many things during her decades of activism.
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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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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
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OSLO - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist last week added a new green dimension to the prize, but critics accused the Nobel committee of betraying a century-old focus on resolving armed conflicts.
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Speculation on who will win the Nobel Peace Prize has been hotly focused on the battle against one of the great threats to world peace: weapons of mass destruction.
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Wagari Maathai, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, has long fought&#151;and sometimes suffered&#151;to protect the environment and human rights in Africa. A journalist recalls an encounter with the Kenyan 13 years ago.
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Calling humanity a threat to the planet,  Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform  and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African  woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai. The African native is an environmentalist and human rights campaigner.
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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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Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - Following his role as a hired killer in &quot;Collateral,&quot; Tom Cruise will host this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize concert.
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Among those tipped to win the 2004 Nobel  Peace Prize on Friday are the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its  leader Mohamed ElBaradei, a Kenyan environmentalist and a  Russian anti-nuclear activist.
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and vowed to use the money