Friday, December 10, 2010

"Nobel Prison Prize"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-10-nobel-award-ceremony_N.htmThe Nobel

Peace Prize ceremony took place Friday, but the winner, Chinese literary critic Liu Xiaobo, was not able to accept it in person, since he is in prison in China for speaking out against the government. Liu has asked the Nobel committee to send the medal to him, secretly requesting that they hide a file inside it.

The prize itself is a medal, but it also comes with a $1.4 million award. Liu says he is unconcerned with the money, but he hopes the medal can be shaped into a skeleton key.

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