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...with world-altering answers. Want proof? Meet some of the 2004 Tech Pioneers--this year's crop of 30 cutting-edge amazers, which will be announced this week by the World Economic Forum, prior to its annual meeting in Davos. They are working to combat AIDS, cancer, blindness and hunger. They're developing software that can keep track of anyone or anything, and new sources of power to wean the world from oil. Wish them luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: To Your Health | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Designed to screen documentaries seldom available to the public, “Changing Faces: Tragedy and Triumph” marks the second year the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) has come to Harvard University. Showcasing films that deal with issues ranging from AIDS to hunger, UNAFF has garnered critical acclaim over its six-year existence for its efforts to publicize topics of global importance

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.N. Film Festival Opens New Eyes | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...Boston University student in attendance remarked that one of her courses championed free trade as an almost flawless mechanism for increasing prosperity—a far cry from its portrayal in the festival as a source of escalating global hunger...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.N. Film Festival Opens New Eyes | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...desperately the need to make a better set of arrangements around the world,” he said. “The millennium could be an opportunity for a break through of the quality of life on the planet and a chance for the poor to escape lives of hunger and impoverishment...

Author: By David M. Kaden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sachs Calls 2003 an “Utter Disaster” | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...vigilante attacks on reform-minded intellectuals. Among the evidence: a videotaped admission she had obtained from a former vigilante. This was dangerous information. As a law professor and activist, Ebadi understood the risks; she could be dragged off to jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman's Way | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

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