By Stephanie Ho Washington 20 November 2006 This year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Muhammad Yunus, says the award is shining the international spotlight on the fundamental link between alleviating poverty and maintaining peace. He spoke to reporte...
By Paul Francuch Chicago 16 November 2006 Professor Milton Friedman, hailed by some as perhaps the 20th century's greatest champion of capitalism and economic freedom, is dead at the age of 94. Dr. Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize winner for econom...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 08 November 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai Wednesday called on the world to plant one billion trees as part of a global effort to fight climate change. She launched the initiative at the United Nations' Clima...
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 October 2006 The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, have lifted millions of people out of poverty in Bangladesh. Yunus pioneered the concept of microfinance, giving small loans to ver...
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio version #2.] I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of t...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - 2005 Nobel Prizes: Medicine Honor Goes to Discovery That Many Dismissed By Caty Weaver, Lawan Davis, Demange Broadcast: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIEN...
For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - October 22, 2002: Nobel Science Prizes By George Grow VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, a VOA Special English program a...
By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 17, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Two professors, Robert Engle and Clive Granger, are the winners this year of the Nobel pr...
