These larger than life characters sought to create a different world and relentlessly followed their convictions to make it a reality.  Along the way, they transformed challenges into exploration, risk into reward, and fear into determination.

[1:07] Slick Rick: Hip Hop's original storyteller and the most sampled artist of all time.  The Smithsonian exhibits his signature eye patch

[5:23] Dr. Oliver Sacks: As unique and idiosyncratic as his many clients, he explored the mysteries of music, memory and consciousness to unlock life's hidden meanings

[11:44] Marie Catherine Colvin: A journalist by profession, but a fire-eater at heart, she went to dangerous places to bear witness to the excessive cruelty of conflict and show us the human cost of war

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