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• Americans share economics Nobel

  October 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences Monday for their research in the way economic decisions and transactions are made outside of the market. Elinor Ostrom, …

• GOP, even some liberals, dismiss Obama peace prize

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World Gee, you’d think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party’s activists and polite congrats from top Republicans. 1

• Analysis: Obama’s Nobel honors promise, not action

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on the nation’s capital. He won! For what?

• Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the …

• Romanian-born writer wins Nobel

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too “Eurocentric,” the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a …

• Cell breakthrough earns Nobel for U.S. scientists

  October 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 Three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal Monday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Elizabeth …