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The 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine Professor Shinya Yamanaka, left, of Japan receives his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on Monday night. The prizes for laureates in medicine, chemistry, physics and literature are awarded in the Swedish capital Stockholm, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on the same day in Oslo, Norway.
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some14some
Big NO under their feet (?) Nobel Prize management needs to regain nobility.
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semperfi
A truly deserved honor for Yamanaka. ....................His work will benefit this and future generations of individuals who until now had chronic diseases for which there were no cures..........................
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Novenachama
Embryonic stem cell research has always been controversial with those that debated whether it was ethically acceptable. Thus the discovery of developing the stem cells from adult skin cells without using and destroying human embryos is a great discovery. Now the Pro-life groups are happy campers. Congratulations to researcher Professor Shinya Yamanaka and developmental biologist Sir John Gurdon for being inspired to find an alternative way.
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Saiaku
Good for Yamanaka. The peace prize however, going to the EU is a joke. As a western, there is nothing good in EU. It's all corruption, debt, falling currency and conflicts. It should be called the nobel joke prize, because it would make more sense.
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ebisen
Saiaku - just a reminder - the EU is the place with the highest and most successful intake and integration of immigrants (just look at Germany's huge Turkish (Muslim) population, living in relative good and peaceful conditions. Europe was (by tradition) a war zone in the past 3000 years, until the last 20 years, the finals conflicts now burning slowly out. There are huge efforts put (and tremendous amounts of money spent) into social institutions, aiming to raise the general standard of living for everybody, regardless of the amount of tax paid. Remember, having access to medial treatment is seen as a fundamental human right in Europe, unlike for example the USA.
The prize was definitely given for these achievements. I could say that no individual region on Earth did more to preserve Peace than Europe and the EU.
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ebisen
Saiaku - read this:
http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/eu-says-nobel-will-spur-reforms-to-keep-europe-at-peace
for your general culture.
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Saiaku
I'm not saying EU is only bad. A lot of good has happened, although the opening of borders and taking in immigrants has increased numbers on crime in every country affected, like norway. they are talking about saving the euro, while germany and france are probably the only countries strong enough to keep using it. It's not world war anymore, but everything is far from fixed. countries are bankrupt, people are starving, while the rich leaders, always unaffected by these things, go on and make fancy speeches. the peace prize will keep people from remembering these things for a little time, then it's back to talking about saving greece, saving the euro and all of that again - nothing changed.
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theeastisred
Norway is not a member of the EU. Also, a bit of a facile argument. Crime is associated with poverty. Who is to say poverty and crime would not have been more widespread if the healthy young adults generally over-represented among immigrants had not been contributing to the economies of the countries they migrated to?
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