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Posts tagged with: nobel

Global Warming Consensus Alert: Gore Snubbed by Nobel Committee!

posted by Marc Vander Maas on Friday, October 12, 2007

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A stony-faced Al Gore reflects on his failure to win a Nobel Prize for Science.

In a stunning turn of events, the Nobel Committee failed to award a Nobel Prize for Science to Al Gore, instead opting to present him with the Peace Prize despite the scant evidence that his recent climate change-related activities have contributed anything to the advancement of global peace.

Micro-Finance: A Way Out of Poverty

posted by Jonathan Spalink on Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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In awarding the Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, the Nobel Committee has focused the world’s attention on the power of “bottom up” economic development. Jennifer Roback Morse reminds us that “the micro-credit movement has helped many of the poor become less poor, and to lift themselves, their families, and their neighbors out of abject poverty.”

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