The Nobel Peace Prize

[yendi]

The Nobel Peace Prize (the only one other than the Literature Prize that actually gets any real press) has been announced, and it's been awarded to Shirin Ebadi. By all indications, it was a damned good choice. (Although I get a kick out of Lech Walesa whining at the end of the article that the Pope didn't get the award, the day after the news broke that the Catholic Church has been telling folks in the third world countries not to use condoms because the condoms wouldn't protect them from AIDS. That doesn't get you the Peace Prize. That gets you a bronzed mitre shoved up your ass.)

Oh, and shadesong: The prize for Medicine this year went to the folks who developed the MRI. :-)

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[amokk]

Of course, there's some controversy over the MRI deal. The inventor and patent owner of it seems to feel slighted for not getting the award, since he's gotten almost every other scientific award over it.

Heard it on good ol' NPR.