The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the event with a powerful statement about education as a transformative force.

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The second transformative force is the pending reform of America's health-care industry.

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The result can be leadership: the transformative force in human life.

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During the discussion, Irina Bokova highlighted the importance of education as a transformative force to prevent female genital mutilation and cutting, underlining the need for all to respect the human rights and human dignity of every girl and women and reminding all of the relevance in this respect of the 2001 UNESCO Universal declaration on Cultural Diversity.

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For the most part, large, transformative deals, areas in which Apple is not the key force of innovation, are unlikely.

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