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Author, speaker, associate professor of medicine at NYU?s School of Medicine. He was an advisor to President Ford?s White House physician and assisted First Lady Nancy Reagan with the Chemical People Project
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Whistleblower
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Cousin to Emmett Till
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Engineer with Bechtel Corp. blows the whistle on the cleanup of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island, the worst nuclear power plant accident in American history
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Non-fiction author and artificial intelligence researcher. Creator of the MTV documentary series The Buried Life and co-author of the book 'What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?', which became a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller
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Canadian lawyer, politician, and university chancellor
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Jamaican centenarian, born 1916. Saw Marcus Garvey in 1928; one of the last living 'Garveyite' followers. In 2023, became the oldest living Jamaican, and the longest living Jamaican man ever
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Tuskegee Airmen
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American poet, essayist and critic. Her writing focuses on political & social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, & poverty. She writes the 'Subject to Debate' column for The Nation
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Played by Susan Sarandon in the film 'Dead man walking'
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Dutch woman who saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust
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American political scientist. Most famous (& controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the US has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social & political life (social capital) since the 1960s w/ serious negative consequences
