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President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his international diplomacy efforts. Steven Inskeep talks with the 1986 winner of the prize, Elie Wiesel, about his new fellow laureate. Wiesel says he was surprised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision.

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the prize committee said. It's not unheard of for a sitting American president to win the prize: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson won while in office — but not in their first year.

The president won the peace prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. The choice shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

There's a lot to recommend this weekend in San Diego. Talk Manny Farber at D.G. Wills, see Rodrigo y Gabriela at 4th and B, or check out a film from Argentina. Culture Lust has a truly lustable list of options for your culture-filled weekend.

The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller. The Nobel committee said "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, [her work] depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."

The pressure to be perfect may be keeping young girls from discovering their true selves. We welcome back author Rachel Simmons to These Days to discuss her new book THE CURSE OF THE GOOD GIRL: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence.

Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz, and Israeli Ada Yonath won Wednesday for mapping ribosomes, the protein-producing factories within cells, at the atomic level. Their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotic cures for various diseases.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for breakthroughs in fiber optics and digital imaging.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, who made key discoveries about how living cells age.

This year's San Diego City College International Book Fair adopts the theme Lucha Libro, a play on "lucha libre," or freestyle, Mexican wrestling. We'll find out why and we'll talk about the addition of children and young adult programming to the festival line-up.