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Published: 12/10/10

Nobel Yields Protests and a Single Empty Chair

By  Lauren Frayer - AOL News
Nobel Yields Protests and a Single Empty Chair

(Dec. 10) -- Pro-democracy rallies from Hong Kong to Scandinavia, Chinese media censors clamping down on news of the country's most famous prisoner, and a single empty chair in Oslo -- all iconic images from today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway. It's the first time since 1935 that the award hasn't been handed to the recipient or a colleague. A single empty chair is Liu Xiaobo's representative at today's pageant at Oslo's city hall, which is being boycotted by China and 17 other countries. At the last minute, Serbia decided to send a delegate. At today's ceremony, Nobel chief ...

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Published: 11/18/10

Liu Xiaobo Isn't the First Nobel Laureate Barred From Accepting His Prize

By  Paul Wachter - AOL News
Liu Xiaobo Isn't the First Nobel Laureate Barred From Accepting His Prize

(Nov. 18) -- The Nobel Peace Prize committee announced today that it would likely not be able to present its award to Liu Xiaobo at next month's ceremony, because neither the Chinese dissident nor any of his family members will likely be able to attend. Liu, a dissident writer and activist, is in jail in China and his wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest. Liu "is one of three people to have received the prize while incarcerated by their own governments. The others are the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, and the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935," The New York ...

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Published: 10/13/10

Much of Asia Silent on Nobel Peace Prize Winner

By  Jonathan Adams - AOL News
Much of Asia Silent on Nobel Peace Prize Winner

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Oct. 13) -- In the wake of Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize win, congratulations -- and some criticisms -- have poured in from governments the world over. But in Asia, the silence has been deafening. With the exception of Taiwan, and a low-key statement from Japan, Asian governments have kept quiet on the Nobel controversy -- neither supporting Liu nor taking the side of Beijing, which has furiously denounced the Nobel committee for the "blasphemy" of honoring a "convicted criminal." Kyodo / AP Liu Xiabo, shown in 2008, has been sentenced to 11 ...

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Published: 10/11/10

Dissident Dedicates Nobel Prize to Tiananmen Victims

By  Lisa Flam - AOL News
Dissident Dedicates Nobel Prize to Tiananmen Victims

(Oct. 11) -- The imprisoned Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize has dedicated the award to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, and China today canceled a meeting with a Norwegian official after warning that the prize would harm relations between the two countries. Liu Xia, the wife of prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was allowed an hour-long visit with him on Sunday in the prison in northeast China. He told her, "This is for the lost souls of June 4," and began crying, The New York Times reported, citing a statement from the group Human Rights in China. EFE / ...

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Published: 10/8/10

Chinese Dissident Liu Wins Nobel Peace Prize

By  not in system - AOL News
Chinese Dissident Liu Wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (Oct. 8) -- Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" - a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honor him. Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, said Liu Xiaobo (LEE-o SHAo-boh) was a symbol for the fight for human rights in China and the government should expect that its policies face scrutiny. "China has become a big power in economic terms as well as political terms, and it is normal that big ...

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Published: 10/7/10

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize

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Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 7) -- Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a man of letters who also braved the violence and political divisions of his homeland to run for president, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." In 1995, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author for mapping the ...

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Published: 10/6/10

American, 2 Japanese Share Nobel Prize for Chemistry

By  not in system - AOL News
American, 2 Japanese Share Nobel Prize for Chemistry

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 6) -- American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to make medicines and better electronics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the award honors their development of "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic systems." The academy said it's a "precise and efficient" tool that is used by researchers worldwide, "as well as in the commercial production of for example pharmaceuticals and molecules used in the electronics ...

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Published: 10/5/10

Two Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Atom-Thin Material

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Two Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Atom-Thin Material

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 5) -- Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments" with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Geim and Novoselov, who are both linked to universities in Britain, for experiments with graphene, a flake of carbon that is only one atom thick. Handout, AFP / Getty Images Andre Geim, left, and Konstantin Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize for their pioneering work on graphene, a form of carbon which conducts ...

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Published: 06/9/10

Empire State Building Says No to Mother Teresa

By  not in system - AOL News
Empire State Building Says No to Mother Teresa

NEW YORK (June 9) -- When the Empire State Building lights up, reaching 102 stories into the Manhattan sky, people lift their eyes and guess what that night's colors might mean - a holiday, a charitable cause, maybe a Yankees win or a birthday. But sometimes, color turns to controversy. Tens of thousands of people are now in an uproar about the building owner's refusal to light New York City's tallest skyscraper in blue and white to honor Mother Teresa in August on what would be her 100th birthday. Raveendran, AFP / Getty Images The owner of the Empire State Building refused a request to ...

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Published: 01/3/10

Resolve to Be the Warmth of the World

By  Christine Wicker - Politics Daily
Resolve to Be the Warmth of the World

I grew up Southern Baptist, which means my childhood was spent believing in the Big Man with a plan. He had it all in control. Having believed heart and soul in the kind of God that science has been steadily destroying for more than 200 years makes me a kind of throwback in the academic, scientific world where I now live. I still grieve a loss of innocent faith that more modern people hardly feel at all. ...

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