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• Obama: Give Back Your Nobel Until the Iranians Give Back Shirin Ebadi’s

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Maybe I’m taking this too personally, but that’s what blogs are for, right? But the revolting action by the fascist Iranian thugocracy in breaking into Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s safe deposit box in Tehran and stealing her Nobel prize symbolizes all that is petty, ugly, sinister and repulsive about the ...
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• 2003 Nobel Winner Says Iran Took Her Medal

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  Whether it was done out of jealousy of Barack Obama or not, Iran has stepped into the realm of the ridiculous as an Iranian human rights lawyer reported that her Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to her in 2003, has been confiscated by Iranian authorities.  —JCL The BBC: Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi ...
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• Nobel Peace Prize Confiscated

  
  TruthHugger — Authority: 518
  Iranian leaders are so insecure that the peace efforts of one of its own are a threat to their masculinity.  Robbing Shirin Ebadi of her internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize, is really tacky.  This is not the first time Amadinejad, and the counsel that controls him, have acted out like the control freak ...
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• More details: Iran confiscates Nobel winners medal from hardline critic Shirin Ebadi

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  IRAN has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is one of the hardline regimes most outspoken critics. Her bank account has also been frozen on the pretext that she owes almost £250,000 in tax. The seizure of the award, unprecedented in its 108-year history, ...
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• Did IPCC contributors each win the Nobel prize?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 656
  If someone contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes work on climate change, for which the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, is this person a Nobel laureate? If not, what are they? I ask because I know a few professors who were IPCC members and/or contributors and they tend ...
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• Only one regime matches Iran’s for vindictiveness: Adolf Hitlers

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  Since 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 laureates but Iran holds the unique distinction of being the only regime to confiscate a winner’s medal. Aung San Sui Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, was unable to collect her prize in 1991 because she was under house arrest. The Soviet ...
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• Seizing Peace

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 429
  Alas, not in the way you might hope. Norway is reporting that the Iranian government has seized a Nobel Prize awarded to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadis medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran along with personal effects including ...
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• Herta Müller has a psychosis, claims Romanian agent who spied on her

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Former head of Securitate claims Nobel prize-winning author has no contact with external reality A former member of the Romanian secret police has launched a blistering attack on the Nobel prize winning writer Herta Müller. Radu Tinu, who has admitted to spying on Müller as head of the secret police (or ...
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• Pre Historic Puzzles: Rocking The Cradle of Civilization

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  Pre Historic Puzzles: Rocking the Cradle of Civilization   By Mr Ghaz, November 24, 2009 Image via Wikipedia Pre Historic Puzzles: Rocking the Cradle of Civilization For more than a century, archeologists were convincing that the cradle of civilization lay in Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The ...
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• Obama Will Go to Copenhagen, Pledge 17-Percent Emissions Cut

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend part of the international climate conference, The Washington Post reports. The decision follows months of speculation over whether the president would make the trip. Obama has said for the past few weeks that he would only attend if his presence could ...
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• Physics For Dummies, From The Smartest There Is

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 143
  By Atticus Brigham William Phillips dazzled approximately one hundred and twenty people, including President Dr. Stephen G. Emerson ‘74, with a talk on November 16 covering time and temperature. He won the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work in laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• National Debt Hysteria?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 675
  In a front piece story in today’s NYT, Edmund Andrews warns that the bill is about to come due on the massive borrowing the federal government has engaged in. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and ...
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• Crowdsourcing a cultural policy?

  
  marcus westbury — Authority: 457
  National Museum of Australia WHAT HAPPENS when the Federal Government puts a call out to the public to make suggestions about a cultural policy? After a few hours of reviewing some of the submissions, it would be fair to say that the quality and usefulness of the submissions so far have been decidedly mixed. ...
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• Do Dogs Laugh?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
        For many years psychologists and behavioral biologists agreed that laughter was a unique emotional expression found only in humans. However, as the study of animal emotions expanded this idea was called into question. The Nobel Prize winning ethnologist, Konrad Lorenz suggested that dogs are capable of ...
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• The Nobel Prize for Literature: A Slightly Irreverent FAQ

  
  The Greatest Literary Works — Authority: 116
  What is it? The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of 5 annual prizes awarded since 1901 according to the last will of industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), also known for inventing dynamite. (The others are chemistry, medicine, physics and peace; the Swedish National Bank invented an economics prize "in memory of ...
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• Diamo a Internet il prossimo Nobel per la Pace

  
  Livia Iacolare — Authority: 116
  Internet è innanzitutto una rete di persone e mai come quest’anno ha rivelato il suo enorme potenziale per la pace e per la comunicazione senza barriere tra i popoli. Partendo da questa idea di Internet come strumento di “costruzione di massa”, il direttore di Wired Italia , Riccardo Luna, ha lanciato ...
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• Probe Congress, RJD hand in Koda scam: NDA leaders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Ranchi, Nov 22 (IANS) National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders Sunday demanded an independent probe into the Madhu Koda scam and accused the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of having a role in the Rs.2,500 crore money laundering racket.“There should be an independent probe in the Madhu Koda scam. Koda ...
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• Winning a nobel prize

  
  The Bean Blog — Authority: 127
  Living with mild OCD I have a few “quirks.” For example, the volume on the television must always be on an even number. I like to close my eyes at night only when the time on the clock looks right (usually an even number). I refuse to touch the handle on a shopping cart. I carry surgical gloves in my glove box ...
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• Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, ...
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