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An amazing woman has passed away...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:19 am

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:20 am

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May she rest in a well deserved peace. While the people that decided Gore to be more worthy of the price should be beaten in-side out, then stuffed back together again just for another beating... Did anyone smell a bribe? :shake:
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:02 am

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From what I read, that woman had more compassion and selflessness in her little finger than Al Gore will ever have in his lifetime. Shame the peace prize didn't go to her, but I'm sure she didn't need one to give her credit for her work. All the lives she saved provided enough for that.

Thanks for pointing it out Oz. Hope she serves as inspiration for generations to come.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:21 am

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Link it and post it in other forums - e-mail to everyone you know so they understand there are people that sacrifice and care.

The fact that I can turn on the news and hear for hours of how David Beckham's crotch has been airbrushed, Lindsey Lohan was drunk again, or Brittany has a new haircut - yet not hear a word of this woman (or those like her) infuriates me.

On another board, I, and others, have sent out the links of this woman's life (and death) to BBC, SKY, ITV, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc...

Spread it about.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:34 am

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I can't say anything that Strac has not already said. The world is down one great person, and it's a shame that she didn't get the recognition she deserved.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:33 am

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Do they award Nobel Prizes Posthumously? if anyone deserves it, it's her.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:09 pm

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Hey, thats a good question, can they award it after you have passed away?
Has anyone ever received it after the fact?


As far as who gets it and who doesn't seems to be the same old same old BS.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:57 pm

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Padishar wrote:Hey, thats a good question, can they award it after you have passed away?
Has anyone ever received it after the fact?
From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation have stipulated that a prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. This happened in 1996 when William Vickrey died only a few days after the announcement of the Prize in Economics.

Before 1974, the Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: to Dag Hammarskjld (Nobel Peace Prize 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931)


Padishar wrote:As far as who gets it and who doesn't seems to be the same old same old BS.
I'm with you on that one... Gandhi was never awarded the nobel. Stalin was nominated twice. Figure that one out...

BUT... When it comes down to it, I take comfort in the fact that the folks that are awarded these prizes are doing what they do out of altruism & not for recognition...

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