Beyonce, Pearl Jam, Michelle Obama Thrill at Global Citizen Festival

• Saturday's Global Citizen Festival, held for more than 60,000 people on a sunny day in Central Park, gathered a mind-boggling roster of musicians, activists, world leaders, actors, CEOs, innovators and celebrity babies (Suri Cruise!) to spread the message "ours is not a generation of bystanders," as Mark Zuckerberg put it in a video.

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William Dunn
William has been writing about health, music, science and technology for 10 years. He covered biotech for Daily Mail, was senior editor at Chicago Tribune and edited the Tenderloin Times, a four-language community newspaper. His articles have appeared in BusinessWeek, The Herald, Industry Standard, and the New York Post.
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