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- <title>
- Jan. 02, 1989: Nobel For A Noble Cause
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 02, 1989 Planet Of The Year:Endangered Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PLANET OF THE YEAR, Page 63
- Nobel for a Noble Cause
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- <p> Physicists and chemists can earn the ultimate recognition: a
- Nobel Prize. Why not accord the same honor to environmental
- scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by
- everyone from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a
- correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
- Peskov suggested that the first environmental Nobel be given
- posthumously to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring
- helped alert the world to the pollution threat.
- </p>
- <p> Alfred Nobel's will set up five awards: physics, chemistry,
- medicine or physiology, literature and peace. But that
- limitation was overcome in 1968, when Sweden's Central Bank
- financed a separate economics prize in memory of Nobel.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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