Thanks to a partnership between the Miss Universe Organization and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Miss Universe will frequently be sharing headlines with worms.
Maria Eitel | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
For the first time in its five-year history, CGI included a cross-cutting focus called "Investing in Girls and Women." Now this isn't a total win. That said, this is an enormous step in the right direction.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
You wouldn't expect a plenary session at the CGI called "Moving From Crisis to Opportunity - Financing an Equitable Future," featuring the CEO of JP Morgan, to be the natural venue for launching a major maternal health initiative.
Jessica Alba | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
In the US we take for granted that our children have a right to education. But for tens of millions of kids in the developing world, the chance for an education is a hope and a dream, but not yet a reality.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
The Clinton Global Initiative is a magnificent prelude to the meetings to be held later in the week with the Chinese government and other world leaders at the United Nations. This is a true gesture of unity.
Jack Hidary | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Obama about to speak -- Matt Damon, Ashton Kutcher in the house. A well-coiffed Bill Clinton opened the 5th Clinton Global Initiative.
Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
The water and sanitation crisis in many parts of the world as a whole is hard to fathom, and mainly because it is completely preventable.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
Ruchira Gupta will be awarded the 2009 Clinton Global Citizen Award, which will make a tremendous difference in her ability to pursue her ambitious goal of dismantling the prostitution system in India.
Richard Gelfond | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment
The reason I'm optimistic about 3D this time around is that the greatest storytellers of our time -- Tim Burton, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg -- are embracing the format.
Paul Snyder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment
Fifteen years since the release of Toy Story, Pixar has made it very clear that they would like to be considered a movie studio in the classic sense: their films all seem to illustrate a singular creative perspective.
Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Obama's State Department needs to have a core of career diplomats, yes, but it should also draw heavily from the new generation of bottom-line entrepreneurial leaders.
Andrew Winston | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
When the very significant dust settles from the financial meltdown and recession, most of the environmental pressures we all face will still be there. So are we moving fast enough?
Kari Stoever | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living