Dr. Norman Borlaug is one of only three Americans to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal (America's highest civilian honor) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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For an American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize can only be good for the U.S. The Republican right needs to understand that and not repeat its performance of last week.

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There is a strong draft-Gore movement going on right now and the former vice president could parlay his Nobel Peace Prize win into a bid for the White House.

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It described her as a game designer whose goal was for a game designer to win a Nobel Peace Prize by the year 2023.

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Those fighting to free Puracal include the director of the California Innocence Project, the human-rights attorney who helped win freedom for Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and an ex-FBI agent who was one of the early champions of Amanda Knox's innocence.

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