Time Magazine's Persons of the Year

Read the TIME Magazine cover story featuring rock star Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as Persons of the Year. These unlikely billionaires have join forces to tackle some of the world's biggest issues: poverty and world health.

"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME's Persons of the Year... If these guys can decide to make it their mission to save the world, partner with people they would never otherwise meet, care about causes that are not sexy or dignified in the ways that celebrities normally require, then no one really has a good excuse anymore for just staying on the sidelines and watching...

On Bono: "He invites everyone into the game, in a way that makes them think they are missing something if they hold back."

On Gates: "...when Bill Gates says you can fix malaria in 10 years, they know he's done a few spreadsheets."

This story warmed my heart by generating hope. I definitely intend to stay tuned... [Thanks to Jeremy Del Rio, of Generation Xcel, for the heads up.]