Bianca Wins &#39;Alternative Nobel&#39;
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Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger, along with two Indian religious scholars, an Argentinian scientist and a Russian human rights group, won the 2004 Right Livelihood Awards, known as the âalternative Nobels.
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Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes, opening a new avenue for disease treatment.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women&#39;s rights and greater democracy in her home country, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize accepted her award on Friday. She urged her audience &quot;to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.
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Scottish rockers FRANZ FERDINAND have been crowned this year&#39;s (04) winner of Britain&#39;s coveted MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE. The TAKE ME OUT stars&#39; eponymous debut album was the panel&#39;s number one choice at the London
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Scottish art pop triumphed over female soul as Franz Ferdinand won the Mercury music prize last night for their debut album. The Glaswegian four-piece, who guest-edited G2 earlier this year, were the clear
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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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Franz Ferdinand have won this year&#39;s Mercury Music Prize. The Glasgow four piece emerged victorious over the likes of The Streets, The Zutons, Amy Winehouse and Jamelia, to take the prestigious title, and
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Scottish alternative rock act Franz Ferdinand has won Britain&#39;s coveted Mercury Prize for its eponymous debut album. The annual music-industry award, recognizing the UK
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19.21: E&#39; andato agli americani Richard Axel e Linda B.Buck il premio Nobel per la medicina del 2004. I due scienziati vengono premiati per i loro studi sulla ricezione degli odori e sul sistema olfattivo. Un settore per lo piu&#39; trascurato dalla medicina.
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Nina Kraft, winner of last month&#39;s Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawai&#39;i, acknowledged yesterday that she had used the banned endurance-boosting drug EPO.
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A Mello e Fire il Nobel per la Medicina. Alla Kucharova la coroncina di Miss Mondo. E poi Michael e gli altri protagonisti di oggi
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American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for showing how genes are copied, a process essential to how cells develop and life itself.
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Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her &quot;musical flow of voices and counter
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday becoming only the 10th woman to win the prize.
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Two researchers who opened up the field of heart-valve replacement and a scientist who discovered a type of cell that plays a key role in the immune system have won prestigious medical prizes.
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The winners of this year's Right Livelihood Awards &#151; dubbed the "alternative Nobels" &#151; received their prizes Thursday from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony at parliament.