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Fall 2007
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Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
Take a look at 37 people under the age of 36 who are shaping the world through their talents in the arts and sciences
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Water Works
Taking up the family business, Philippe Cousteau campaigns to save our oceans and rivers
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Roving Eye
Documentary filmmaker Rachel Grady opens our eyes to the complexities of overlooked places and people
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Midas Touch
To clean highly polluted groundwater, Michael Wong has developed a detergent based on gold
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Hot Idea
Christina Galitsky's energy-efficient cookstove makes life a little easier for Darfur's refugees
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High Scorer
Composer Nico Muhly wowed them at Carnegie Hall and the New York Public Library
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Painting the Edge
With an eye for despoiled landscapes, Lisa Sanditz captures the sublime
Stepping Up
Even as he travels the world, dancer and hip-hopper Marc Bamuthi Joseph has stayed close to his musical roots
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Shell Fame
Paleobiologist Aaron O'Dea has made his name by sweating the small stuff
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Flower Power
Studying ancient botanical drawings, Daniela Bleichmar is rewriting the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas
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Mounds vs. Vegans
In drawings and paintings, Trenton Doyle Hancock pits archetypes against each other
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How to Make a Dodo
Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research
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Site Seer
Faced with the Internet's overwhelming clutter, Joshua Schachter invented a deceptively simple tool that helps us all cut to the chase
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Russian Idol
Moscow-born Regina Spektor draws on classical music roots to create and perform pop songs of rare originality
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Flu Fighter
With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine
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Show Stopper
The classically trained dance star Alicia Graf showed true grit overcoming a career-threatening ailment
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Dogged
Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in Africa. But dogs and foxes showed him the way
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Chameleon
Playwright and performer Sarah Jones displays a genius for climbing into other people's skin
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The Big Picture
Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty
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Mighty Mouth
Spoken-word artist Mayda del Valle brings to life "democracy writ large in poetry"
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The Player
Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
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Signs of Life
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger analyzes light from distant stars for evidence we're not alone
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Down to Earth
Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
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One Man Band
The next Bob Dylan? Maybe. Sufjan Stevens' honest sound and stark lyrics speak volumes to a new generation. And he plays all the instruments
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Wild Woman
Playwright Sarah Ruhl speaks softly and carries a big kick
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Primed for Success
Terence Tao is regarded as first among equals among young mathematicians, but who's counting
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Faith Healer
Religious historian Reza Aslan calls for a return to Islam's tradition of tolerance
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Organizing Principal
In the South Bronx, Ramón Gonzalez gives a troubled middle school a kidcentric makeover
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The Bias Detective
How does prejudice affect people? Psychologist Jennifer Richeson is on the case
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Crossing the Divide
Novelist Daniel Alarcón's writings evoke the gritty, compelling landscape of urban Latin America
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Civil Wrongs
In a painstaking study of 1960s Atlanta, Kevin Kruse takes suburban whites to task
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Rock of Ages
Where did the world's highest mountains come from? Geologist Elizabeth Catlos takes a new view
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I, Lender
Software engineer Matt Flannery pioneers Internet microloans to the world's poor
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Comedienne of Manners
Novelist ZZ Packer uses humor to point up some disconcerting signposts along America's racial divide
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Keeper of the Keys
Pianist Jason Moran laces his strikingly original music with the soulful sounds of jazz greats
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Marked Man
Guerilla artist James De La Vega leverages his street smarts to a fashion career
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Net Worker
Where are your friends in cyberspace? Closer than you might think, says Internet researcher Jon Kleinberg
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Making the Grade
Yurok Indian Geneva Wiki is helping other young Native Americans "develop their best selves"
From the Castle
Sci-High
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A Pox Upon the Kauri
New Zealanders rally to save their much-loved, 2,000-year-old national symbol
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West Side Glory
Out of Hell's Kitchen came an image that would epitomize one of Broadway's greatest love stories