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get any betterthan this,\"she said.\"Maybe in heaven.”  \n# Mother Nature's Helper\n\nThat wasn't the first tree that Maathai hasplanted.She has been planting seedlingsfor decades.She founded the Green BeltMovement,a massive ecological effortthat has planted 30 million trees in Kenyaand dozens of other African countries.  \nAccording to the Norwegian NobelPrize Committee,Maathai has cultivatedmore than just trees—she's promotedpeace by ensuring that there are enoughnatural resources so that people won'thave to fight over them in the future.  \n“[Maathai]has taken a holisticapproach to sustainable development thatembraces democracy,human rights,andwomen's rights,”the committe said.\"She thinks globally and acts locally.\"”  \nMaathai is the first African woman towin a Nobel Peace Prize.She is the sixthAfrican to win the award.She willreceive a medal(see Time Trip)and  \nThe Nobel Prizes were the brainchild of AlfredBernhard Nobel(1833-1896)of Sweden,anaccomplished scientist,businessman,and engineer.Nobel had more than 350 patented inventions.  \nexplosion,and several  \nof the inventor's factories  \ncombusted during his career.  \nNobel laureate Wangari Maathaplants a tree ina park in Nairobi,Kenya  \nS1.36 million in a ceremony next month.  \nFor Maathai,the prize has reaffirmedthe importance of her cause—protectingthe environment.\"It's a matter of life anddeath for this country,\"she said.\"TheKenyan forests are facing extinction.”  \n# Root of the Problem\n\nThe Kenyan forests weren't always indanger.When Maathai was a child,herhometown was full of lush,green hills.  \ntions.Perhaps to compensate for his destructivework,Nobel—who had no wife or children—left awil benjueating sg milion to fund the prizes thatbear his name.In addition to the peace prize,awards are given for advances in physics,chem-istry,physiology or medicine,and literature.TheNobel Prizes are announced in October,but theyare always presented on December 10,the  \nNobel's greatest scientific achievement was theanniversary of Nobel's death.The first prizes wereinvention of dynamite in 1867.Named afterawarded in 1901.dynamis,the Greek word for \"power\"dynamiteThe first American to win the Nobel Peace Prizemade it easier,safer,and cheaper to blast throughwas President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 forrock and earth.The experi-negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese Warments leading up to(1904-1905),a conflict between Russia and Japandynamite's inventionover which country would control Korea and thewere anything butChinese province of Manchuria.To the astonishmentsafe,however—of the world,Japanese forces trounced RussianNobel's youngertroops.Ater the war,Japan emerged as a worldbrother was illed power.Russia's defeat was a contibuting factor inin an accidentalthe Russian Revolution of 1905.  \nTwo other U.S.presidents have won the NobelPeace Prize.Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 for hisefforts in seeking peace after World War !At the time of his death,Nobel was a milionaire.(1914-1918)and supporting the League of Nations,He owned 93 factories around the world,which pro-the precursor to the United Nations.Jimmy Carterduced 66,500 tons of explosives yearlywon in 2002 for helping mediate the Camp DavidDespite his “explosive”career,Nobel was a Accords between lsrael and Egypt during his presi-  \npacifist and opposed the mitary use of his inven-dency and for promotinghuman rights.  \nShe remembers drawing water from aspring,\"fascinated by the way the clean,cool water pushed its way through the sofred clay,\"she told London's Independent.The area was so green that there was noword in the local language for desert.  \nToday,treeless tea plantations havereplaced the green hills,and Maathaisspring has dried up.\"I feel the tragedyunder my feet,\"she said.\"Gulleys stare atme,telling the story of soil erosion,unknown before.Hunger is on the facesof the people.”  \nMining,logging,and 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