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Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on health reform.

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Tracy Britt, 28, grew up on a farm in Kansas and struck up a relationship with Warren Buffett while at Harvard, contacting him out of the blue to see if he would meet with a non-profit group she co-founded focusing on investment education for undergraduate women.

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