In his video message during the high-level segment, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
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This year, the message of hope and change seems to have eluded the campaign, but for a large segment of young America, 80 million strong, those themes still resonate in how they express their aspirations and how they buy.