As for the Literature Prize, only 12 Americans have won it in more than 100 years.

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The idea was that the person who found it would have a fabulous prize.

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The Award Ceremony for the 2010 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize will be held on 3 May.

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An opinion piece she wrote for the Boston Globe won a 2009 National Association of Science Writers prize.

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The Prize serves to raising awareness of human rights, particularly among decision-makers and the general public.

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The Games remain a high-profile prize, and attaining the rights is a unique process of brinksmanship.

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The prize is simply too big to ignore, and somebody will eventually take it.

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But like Fastow, Kreinberg may be the little fish being used to catch a bigger prize.

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So Mike and I came up with a great prize: a custom twitter background.

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