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Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize.

Hello again, I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. On this day of

White House meetings about the Afghan war, President Obama said he was surprised and humbled to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

After just nine months on the job, he accepted it not for his own accomplishments, but as a call to action.

Will the prize help or hurt Obama's agenda in Washington and worldwide?

Also today, some major American corporations have left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the issue of climate change.

Will shareholders pay any price for going green, or is their profit to be made from proposed laws designed to protect the environment by reducing greenhouse gases.

First, here's the news.

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with To the Point. Special greetings to the audience at WNYC in New York City. President Barack Obama received

the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the Prize Committee called his extraordinary efforts to

strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. Here's the audience's reaction

in Oslo, Norway when the award was announced. President Barack Obama for his extra-ordinary

insats for to sture international diplomacy.

The president himself indicated he didn't expect it either.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company

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