Former Yukos oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on a hunger strike to protest the denial of life-saving AIDS medication to his former lawyer while in prison. This story perfectly illustrates a key social trend we are following at TREND AGITATOR. Meaning has become the new currency as consumers prioritize deeper meaning over wealth to balance their complex lives.

A Moscow court says he can't be moved to an AIDS clinic because the defense didn't prove he was suffering from a lethal disease, but the court refused to admit his test results as evidence.

That quotation is from Trudy Rubin

Thank you! Trudy was not sited in the Forbes piece.