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The ONI was founded in January after researchers from the three universities realized that they were all searching for the same answers but through different methods. The initiative has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute.
One of the first Papua New Guineans to attend university, he repaid the opportunity with 35 years of public service in which he fought tirelessly, if with limited success, to ensure that P.N.G.'s leaders served the people, not themselves. After a career as a rugby union captain, diplomat, reformist...
Iyengar is 85 now, and he still teaches at the institute in Pune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taught his first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struck up a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi Menuhin that Iyengar brought his teachings to the West. His...
Since 1968, in a Biafra facing extermination and famine, he has revolutionized humanitarian assistance. He went to provide medical attention; he ended up bearing witness, becoming a spokesman for the voiceless. He swore to banish forever the kind of error made by the Red Cross from 1940 to 1944, when...
There were several candidates who just missed the list, but the one who intrigued me most was Paul Farmer. An M.D. with a Ph.D. in anthropology, Farmer, 44, is a professor at Harvard Medical School who spends most of his time at a charity hospital in Haiti that provides treatment...