America Looks Forward: This is beautiful: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts are pooling a billion dollars for a new "plan for peace." They're hoping to raise $4 billion total for the project:

America Looks Beyond provides tomorrow's generation with opportunities today. Starting in 2005, every high school student in America is going to be offered a six-week trip to a third world country. To broaden their horizons. To gain a more intimate understanding of the world. And to fight the global War on Terror in a positive way, through education and first-hand knowledge of how so much of the world struggles to survive.

(Via Adbusters.)