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Suspense mounts ahead of Nobel Prize announcements
Breitbart ^ | 10/07/12 | AFP

Posted on 10/07/2012 5:49:03 PM PDT by DFG

This year's Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the peace prize could go to Egypt's Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo's poor, Afghan burka opponent Sima Samar or US scholar Gene Sharp.

The first Nobel to be announced this year will be the medicine prize on Monday, when the jury in Stockholm reveals the winner or winners around 11:30 am (0930 GMT.)

Like every year, most of the speculation in the run-up to the announcements focuses on who will take home the prestigious peace and literature prizes.

Betting sites have become a popular feature of the guessing game in recent years, with gamers sometimes curiously accurate amid suspicions of leaks from within the award committees.

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KEYWORDS: gobran; nobel; samar; sharp
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To: crazydad

it was for his ‘relief efforts’ after haiitii- but I guess htere was no mention of Bush Sr’s name who worked tirelessly right aqlongside clinton in those relief efforts?


41 posted on 10/08/2012 12:01:25 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: DFG

Suspence? @$#%$#$#@##$$$%$%% lets see, who can we find in the world who has done nothing with his or her life but has promise?


42 posted on 10/08/2012 4:36:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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