Nobel Laureate Seeks to Explain AIDS Remarks
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Just a day before she is scheduled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai tried Thursday to defuse a controversy over reports that she
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Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai on Wednesday urged President Mwai Kibaki to open dialogue with opposition foe Raila Odinga to stem unrest that has claimed more than 300 lives.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter  Alicia Keys is calling on her peers in the music industry to  raise their voices to help millions suffering from AIDS in  Africa.
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A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he said was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, surrounded by rock stars, launched a book of photographs of a major anti-AIDS concert on Thursday with a call to ordinary people to take a lead in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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More than 80 international   scientists, including a Nobel laureate, have appealed to South   Africa's president to fire his controversial health minister   for what they say are "pseudo-scientific" policies on AIDS.
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No one was more surprised on Friday to hear from the Norwegian Nobel Committee than Wangari Maathai, Kenyaâs assistant minister for the environment.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites said Friday he was "mortified" at the comments, and suggested he was misquoted.
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Science & environment: Nobel winner David Baltimore says complexity of disease means scientists are no closer to finding vaccine
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Professor and environmental activist Wangari Maathai from Kenya will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2004 later on Friday. The Prize will be presented at the Oslo City Hall, by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee at 13:00 local time.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease  that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined  to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Actor Richard Gere speaks at the United Nations, explaining his work to fight Aids in India.
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Bill Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has donated nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, on Sunday called for countries to "dig deep" to halt the deadly virus that causes the disease.
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By Words: Guy Adams  Nobel calling   A formidable PR operation surrounds the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which takes place 24 hours after the coveted award is presented. Last night's gig was broad-cast to an estimated audience of 300 million, in a hundred different countries.
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The former South African president said he was disclosing the cause of his son's death to focus more attention on the still-taboo topic of AIDS.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai offers to help end clashes in an arid part of Kenya.