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| Nobel peace laureate Ebadi wins German prize (EARTHtimes.org) |
| Munich - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has been awarded this year's Tolerance Prize by the Protestant Academy in Tutzing for her human rights activities. The academy praised the Tehran lawyer for defending government opponents and disside... |
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| Nobel Prize nominee speaks (Mankato Free Press) |
| Archbishop Elias Chacour gave students, faculty and community members who visited with him at Gustavus Adolphus College Monday a lot to think about. And much of his message was about getting along with others, existing as pacifists and trusting in God. |
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| Polish woman championed by Kansas students dies (The Wichita Eagle) |
| The Polish woman whose heroics during the Holocaust were brought to light by four Kansas high school girls has died. Irena Sendler, nominated for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was 98. A social worker in the mid-1940s, Sendler risked her life saving young children in the Warsaw ghetto and put their names in a jar. She buried each jar so she could later dig them up and reunite children with ... |
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| UNH professor's work receives Nobel Peace Prize (The New Hampshire) |
| The University of New Hampshire is already well known for its winning hockey team, but now the university is garnering worldwide acclaim for Professor Berrien Moore III's participation on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Moore, the director of UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, was a member of a panel of scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, ... |
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