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...originally set to be focused on an intense, closed-door meeting on the Afghan war in the basement Situation Room Friday afternoon, OCt. 9 - was hijacked by the 5:03 a.m. news bulletin from Oslo. The award capped off a week that found that the U.S. is now the world's most admired nation, up from seventh place last year, charting the highest jump among the 50 countries measured. (See the top 10 Obama-backlash moments...
...much light on why the Oslo-based committee had bestowed the prestigious honor on a President who has been in office for less than a year. As Charlotte Lepri, a researcher with the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in Paris, described her friends' and colleagues' reaction to the news, "People said, 'Why? What did he do? The perception was the Nobel traditionally goes to people who have made accomplishments or considerable sacrifices for peace. So far, Obama is more a promise for what might happen...
...announced in a press release on Sept. 10. Why isn't the suggestion made to non-Japanese-speaking travelers? "We didn't think [telling people to use the restroom] was a very important point of the program," says Tezuka. "We didn't think there would be such big news about it." Among ANA's other green programs include recycling plastic bottles and paper cups, using lighter items in the cabin (such as plastic bottles for wine instead of glass ones) and providing chopsticks made from the wood from thinned domestic forests...
...want an instant take on anything from who should win American Idol to why on earth NASA aims to crash a probe into the moon, then the verdict is in. Within minutes of President Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, the Twitterverse had greeted the news with a resounding raspberry. "What are the reasons for Obama to get Nobel Peace Prize?????" asked @ludmila_kh incredulously, if not grammatically. (See pictures of Obama overseas...
...Hardly surprising, then, that Arab opinionmakers deemed the Nobel award premature. "This is too early. He is still living off slogans," says Dawoud Ibrahim, the producer of Al Hadath, a political news show on the Lebanese Broadcasting Channel. "People spend years working for peace," says Layal Abou Rahal, an editor at the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida. "What did he do? Let's imagine he will in fact help in the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. What will they give him as a reward then...