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Millions of Dollars Donated for Malaria Drugs Stolen

LONDON -- A leading global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years - perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth - vastly exceeding levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal...

Carlos Slim: 5 Facts on the Billionaire Atop the Forbes 400 List

Recession woes? Diminished savings? Behind on bills? These aren't words that resonate for Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who just topped a 2011 Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. As WalletPop reports, Slim is now worth a whopping $74 billion, placing him well ahead of No. 2 Bill Gates ($56 billion) and...

Obama to GOP: Don't Cut Education Spending

BOSTON -- Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money for education as irresponsible and harmful to the long-term health of the nation's economy. In his most vigorous defense...

Facebook's Zuckerberg Pledges to Give Away Wealth

NEW YORK (Dec. 9) -- Another 17 of America's richest people, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, have pledged to give away most of their wealth They are the latest to join the Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren...

History of Facebook Reads Like a Comic

(Sept. 28) -- "The Social Network," the new movie about the creation of Facebook, opens Oct. 1, but if you want a more graphic presentation of the site's creator, Mark Zuckerberg, you'll have to wait until December. That's when Bluewater Productions, a publishing company that has built a niche by doing biographical comic...

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Autism and My Grandson's First Swim

My 11-year-old grandson took his first trip off the diving board tonight.

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Report: Cars of the Rich and the Famous

If you were one of the world's richest human beings, what kind of car would you own? $300K.

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05/30/12 Gates Foundation to sign MoU with UP govt Source: rediff.com A ssuring all help of the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday told Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav that his organisation would soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Uttar Pradesh government on various health and development related issues.
05/30/12 Gates spearheads anti-smoking push Source: China Daily To mark this year's World No Tobacco Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched the first-ever anti-smoking social media campaign in China to raise public awareness, particularly of secondhand smoking.
05/30/12 Peng, Gates make anti-smoking call Source: Sina Peng Liyuan, China's anti-smoking ambassador, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attend an anti-smoking campaign ahead of the 25th World No-Tobacco Day, in Beijing, May 29.
05/30/12 Hoisted from the Archives: A Non-Sokratic Dialogue on... Source: Brad DeLong "Professor! Good to see you. Getting coffee?"
05/30/12 Gates, central govt to focus on rural sanitation Source: The Economic Times - India His company's software has, over the decades, enabled legions of Indian youth to become computer engineers, and helped the country lay claim to IT superpower status.

Background on bill gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist.

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