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The Great Scandinavian Frolic of the Nobel Prize usually enlivens the fall season.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* The Great Scandinavian Frolic of the Nobel Prize usually enlivens the fall season. This year's Frolic is particularly rich in human comedy. Wangari Maathai, a lady from Kenya, wins the Peace Prize for starting a movement that is both green and feminist, getting women to plant 30 million trees in her country. Maathai and other women once stripped naked in downtown Nairobi as a protest. She also thinks that AIDS is a biological weapon developed in the West to kill black people. Oh, and she was best friends with Bella Abzug. "We have added a new dimension to the concept of peace," says the fellow handing out the swollen check. Yessir, ...

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