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...native Kenya, Wangari Maathai has been arrested, beaten unconscious and called subversive. Last week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved...
...list of signatories includes two Nobel laureates—Harvard’s McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton and Stanford emeritus professor William F. Sharpe—as well as two Pulitzer prize winners...
...Nobel award for psychology went to Daniel Simons, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard’s own Christopher Chabris. Their study, “Gorillas in Our Midst”—performed at Harvard—showed that people who selectively focused on one thing often overlooked normally conspicuous surroundings, including men in gorilla suits...
Inoue, who knew nothing about the details of his honor until the ceremony itself, received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize because his invention offered “an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.” As he spent the afternoon in Sanders Theatre, being interviewed intermittently by Japanese television, he said the award came with more confusion than distinction...
...real Nobel prize gives you money and funding to come here, but this honor doesn’t give you anything,” Inoue said through a translator. He said his travel was being funded by some generous friends and associates...