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time, modern activists must find ways to cut through the info glut and hold the attention of a public grown wary of ideologues.

When they succeed — and TIME has found six men and women who are succeeding, in ways large and small — their victories are all the sweeter. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," said Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel. "The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." These crusaders have chosen the long, humble road.

 


Which of the following breakthroughs do you think will come first?
The ability to clone humans
A cure for cancer
Extending the average life past 100
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Do you know the next Einstein? Is your neighbor working on the next great health breakthrough? If so, e-mail us the name of your nominee, explaining in 50 words or less why we should choose him or her.

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