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COVER: Giving Globally: How to Heal The World. (All overseas editions). General Editor Mary Carmichael reports that 211 years after Edward Jenner immunized his first patient, the idea behind vaccines has not changed much and the doctors leading the way in working to wipe out the world's worst diseases are just as optimistic as he was. Carmichael focuses on four individuals who are making a difference, including a doctor who's making it easier to do high-tech science in low-tech environments; a biologist who has spent 23 years failing to defeat HIV but is still trying; an engineer who thinks patients can ward off disease with a cheap inhalable powder; and a banker who has improved poor people's health by getting rich people to invest in bonds.

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Cool, Clear Water. Tokyo Bureau Chief Christian Caryl reports on an urgent water crisis affecting more than 1 billion people and the old methods people are using to help solve the problem. Twentieth-century solutions like giant dams often create more problems than they solve. Instead, development specialists are rediscovering "primitive" water systems. These include the use of foot pumps used by the Chinese 2,000 years ago, irrigation networks that evolved in Peru 1,000 years ago and stone-lined aqueducts in Saudi Arabia.

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A Reward for Good Behavior. Special Correspondent Emily Flynn Vencat profiles Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese businessman and billionaire who will announce the first winner of his foundation's Achievement in African Leadership Prize -- a $5 million award, spread out over 10 years, a
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