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Nobel Prize: Watching Obama's lecture
The Swampby Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by......Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Government, National Government, Washington (U.S. state)
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Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize days after announcing troop surge
Comments BlogPresident Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, acknowledging in his speech the hotly debated irony of receiving it as a wartime president. According to a Times article today, Obama’s speech to the Nobel Committee defended his...... -
Obama accepts Nobel, seeks 'just peace'
The SwampRead a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the fold, the toast that......Tags: History, International Relations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nuclear Weapons, Murder
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Obama toasts the inventor of dynamite -- Text
Top of the TicketAmerican Democrat president salutes Alfred Nobel at Obama's prize banquet.... -
Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is 'a call to action'
President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace today for what the Nobel committee called "his extraordinary efforts...Tags: Government, International Relations, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nelson Mandela
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Two Americans With California Ties Win The Nobel In Economics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTwo Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences today for their research in the way economic decisions and transactions are made outside of the market. Elinor Ostrom, a Los Angeles native who teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind....Tags: Indiana University, Research, Los Angeles, Bloomington (Monroe, Indiana), Science and Technology
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President Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Web ReporterPresident Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts...Tags: Diplomacy, International Relations, Death, United Nations, Conservation
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How Obama spent his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize
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'Déjà Vu'
Times Staff WriterJerry BRUCKHEIMER, the producer-king of mass audience mayhem, is not in the habit of giving his films French titles, but "Déjà Vu" is in the business of confounding expectations. Rather than the routine Denzel Washington-starring potboiler the...Tags: Death, Thriller (genre), Defense, Science and Technology, Val Kilmer
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Wrights saw airplanes as tools of peace
Sun StaffWe think of war and we think of airplanes. But when Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the airplane a century ago, they did not envision massive aerial bombardments of "shock and awe." In fact, the Ohio brothers once thought their invention would become...Tags: Kitty Hawk, Disasters and Accidents, History, Wilbur Wright, Death
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American, Norwegian share Nobel Prize
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAn American and a Norwegian will share this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work in macroeconomics. The pair, Edward C. Prescott, 63, and Finn E. Kydland, 60, will share the $1.3 million prize for their work on monetary and fiscal...Tags: Norway, Death, Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Science
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American, Norwegian Share Nobel
Times Staff WriterAn American and a Norwegian with ties to UC Santa Barbara will share this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work in macroeconomics. The pair, Edward C. Prescott, 63, and Finn E. Kydland, 60, will share the $1.3 million prize for their...Tags: Norway, Death, Science and Technology, Science, Drugs and Medicines
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