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Dateline: OSLO, Norway The Nobel Peace Prize committee decided Thursday on a 2002 award it hopes will send the right message to a world still in shock over last year's terrorist attacks and at odds over U.S. plans to attack Iraq.

As always, the secretive five-member committee offered no hints. Committee secretary Geir Lundestad, would only say that a decision was made Thursday after a series of meetings through the year and would be revealed on Oct. 11.

"We have noted in the media that there is no clear favorite," Lundestad said about speculation on the coveted prize, first awarded in 1901. A record 156 _ 117 individuals and 39 groups _ were nominated by a ...

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