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Saturday is also the 67th birthday of Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped negotiate a Central American peace agreement and wrote an essay on the Lessons of the 20th Century for Britannica. ...The Plenty 20 awards for 2008
Nineteen years later, the IPCC’s volunteer scientific experts—the group considers its contributors to number in the thousands—were finally recognized for their efforts when they were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore ... What Is a Social Entrepreneur?
Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, is a more recent example. He began offering microloans to impoverished people in Bangladesh in 1976, thereby empowering them to become economically self-sufficient and proving the ... National Geographic Live! Announces Fall Programs
"Taking Root" tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize laureate WANGARI MAATHAI, who led a movement in her native Kenya to safeguard the environment. Maathai became the first woman to both earn a Ph.D. and head a university department in ... General Knowledge For Forthcoming Examination
The Queen of England who married her brother-in-law was Catherine of Aragon ■ The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Johnson Bunche ■ The first British University to admit women for degree courses was London ... In Depth: The Plenty 20 awards for 2008 (By Anuj Desai, Dan Fost ...
With a groundbreaking documentary, an Oscar, and a Nobel Peace Prize under his belt, Al Gore took a new approach to raising environmental awareness in 2007: advertising. His nonprofit Alliance for Climate Protection’s $300 million “We” ... Poorest nations see little low-carbon investment money
One of them, Grameen Shakti — a subsidiary of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ microlending bank — extends credit to families to install solar home systems and improved cooking stoves. The organization has been financing ... Upcoming events - 09/07/08
This agency won the Nobel Prize for its successful efforts to prevent Iraq from developing new weapons of mass destruction (efforts whose success was proven when the United States failed to find any such weapons in Iraq after the ... August 31:: Historical Events
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920); 2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943); 2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908) ... This Day, September 5, In Jewish History
1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began the peace conference at Camp David, Maryland. These talks would produce the first peace treaty between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. The treaty has lasted. The peace may be "cold" but there ...
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