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...Princeton bioethics professor is co-author of the forthcoming book The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter I nominate Jeffrey Sachs and Bono for setting the world an achievable goal that is also a moral imperative: the end of extreme poverty by 2025. They made that an issue the 2005 G-8 summit had to take up. Though the measures adopted there were less dramatic than many hoped, if the rhetoric is turned into reality, it will make a huge difference for hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people...
...Some 20 graduate students tried to do the same by offering pro bono consulting services to residents of Broadmoor, a central neighborhood in New Orleans. The students, mostly first-years at the Kennedy School of Government, worked with residents to create a plan for repopulation and revitalization...
JEFFREY SACHS Enemy of poverty, friend of Bono, he wrote the book on how to help the world's poor. I nominate biologist Edward O. Wilson, who has uncovered hidden laws of biology, charted the interconnections of knowledge, plumbed the sources of human nature and held a lantern aloft to warn the world of the risks of man-made environmental catastrophe. If humankind finds a way to live in peace together, in harmony with nature, he will have played a unique role in that deliverance...
...people get ahead in life [Jan. 9]: Is ambition all about me? It is important that we don't confuse ambition with self-centeredness. Success is measured not by a dollar amount but rather by a person's character. For example, one of Time's Persons of the Year, Bono, is successful in the fight against global poverty. It is tragic that such examples were not used in this article to better define ambition. Instead, Britney Spears and Sean (Diddy) Combs are used as examples of people whose ambitions led them to succeed. If the ladder to the top includes...
...trips were sponsored by the Law School and coordinated by the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs and the Student Hurricane Network...