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Creativity and Mental Illness

Are creative people more likely to suffer mental illness, and has Cuba wiped out child hunger? Wesley Stephenson investigates.

(Photo: A visitor photos a screen featuring Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 16 Nov 201514:50GMT
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