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Global Health
Addressing Hunger and Poverty
May 20, 2005 More than a billion people live in extreme poverty, plagued by diseases such as AIDS and malaria, and without enough fresh water to drink or food to eat. Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, tell Ira Flatow about meeting the needs of a growing population.Can science and technology play a role?
iRobot: Getting in on the Ground Floor
February 4, 2005 Helen Greiner, one of the founders of the iRobot Corp. talks about the company's consumer hit: the 'Roomba' line of robotic vacuum cleaners. However, Greiner says the company has bigger things in mind than hunting dust bunnies, including military robots and vehicles.