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Fri, 10/12/2007

Former Vice President Al Gore wins the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize:

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today by the Nobel Prize committee. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Nobel committee.

Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a
recognized problem worldwide was covered in the 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which was also released in book form by Viking earlier this year.

In a statement, Gore said he was "deeply honored," adding that "the climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

The former vice president has stated that he will donate his half of the $1.5 million prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a U.S. organization he founded that seeks to persuade people to cut emissions and reduce global warming.

The award ceremony will be held on December 10th, in Oslo, Norway.

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Tue, 08/21/2007

Penguin Press Author and Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, to Speak in Washington DC:

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MCCLEAN, Va., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of its continuing mission to support its more than 500 venture capital professionals and to offer leading edge, topical programming to the region's business community, the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) is proud to partner with Politics and Prose to bring former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan to Washington DC to speak about his views on globalization and its effect on the American economy.

In a September 19th, event co-sponsored by MAVA and Politics and Prose, Greenspan will speak at The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium. The event will be moderated by Pulitzer Prize winner and nationally recognized authority on energy policy and international politics and economics Daniel Yergin. The conversation will center on Greenspan's upcoming book, The Age of Turbulence, Adventures in a New World, as well as on the current turmoil in the public and global markets and the workings of the global economy in each of the major regions of the world.

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