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Bloomington, Illinois
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www.pantagraph.com The Pantagraph Sunday, December 11, 2011 A9 3 women accept Nobel Peace Prize VLjC. w. ByBjoern H.Amland and Louise Nordstrom ASSOCIATED PRESS MM I I democratically elected female president, shared the award with women's rights campaigner a Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkul Sirleaf, 73, was elected president of Liberia in 2005 and won re-election in She is widely credited with helping her coun-j try emerge from" an especially bru-" tal civil war. Leymah Gbowee Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Tawakkul Karman OSLO, Norway Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy. "My sisters, my daughters, my friends find your voice," Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo.

Sirleaf, Africa's first AP, San Francisco ChronicleFREDERIC LARSON The moon is seen in the sky over the Golden Gate Bridge during an eclipse Saturday in San Francisco. The next full eclipse of the moon will not happen until April 14, 2014. Sky-watchers see total lunar eclipse Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen. Karman is the first Arab woman to win the prize and at 32 the youngest peace laureate ever. A journalist and founder of the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, she also is a Gbowee, 39, challenged Liberia's warlords as she campaigned for i women's rights and rape.

In 2003, she led hun- dreds of female through Monrovia to de-4 mand swift disarmament of fighters, who continued to prey on women, despite a peace deal. IV member of the Islamic party Islah. No woman or sub- Saha-ran African had won the prize since 2004, when the committee honored Wan-gari Maathai of Kenya, who mobilized poor women to fight deforestation by planting trees. w. 1 FREE 1 Exam X-Rays New patients only.

I Not to be combined with any other otters. The Foehr Group I Try our programs for all ages: A i -Memory v- Skiils fcirLA. FocusAttention 663-8770 mmrnimm, sky. Observatory officials alerted the crowd when the eclipse began and spontaneous applause erupted when the celestial event ended. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes through the long shadow cast by the Earth and is blocked from the sunlight that illuminates it.

The last total lunar eclipse was on June 15 although that was not visible from the U.S. The next one is on April 15, 2014, and will be seen in the U.S. The Foehr Group 107 S. Prospect Bloomington, IL 61704 (309) 663-0433 Expires 1312 By Sudhin Thanawala ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO -Moon watchers in the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe were treated Saturday to a rare celestial phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse. For 51 minutes starting at 8:06 a.m., the Earth's shadow completely blocked the moon.

The moon took on a reddish glow, as some indirect sunlight continued to reach it after passing through the Earth's atmosphere. Since the atmosphere scatters blue light, only red light strikes the moon, giving it a crimson hue. At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, some 300 people, many clutching coffee cups in the frigid morning air, sat with blankets and chairs on the observatory's great lawn. "It's a celestial festival out here," Capm Petersen, 39, told the Los Angeles Times as he set up his camera. Perched on a slope north of downtown near the Hollywood sign, the property offers clear views of the SHELTER INSURANCE I TTT I y2 i oiuaio worKs 11 i sweaters.

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