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Bill Gates Keeps Top Spot On 30th Annual Forbes 400 List of Richest Americans
Bill Gates (No. 1) retains his top spot on Forbes’ 2011 ranking of the richest people in America (“The Richest People In America,” p. 39 and p. 210) with $59 billion, followed by Warren Buffett (No. 2) with $39 billion and Larry Ellison (No. 3)...
Bill & Melinda Gates Call on Union Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
Bill and Melinda Gates have called on the Union Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad. Issues relating to Immunization program, Pentavalent vaccine, Polio vaccination efforts, HIV control and capacity building were discussed during the meeting held in...
Bill And Melinda Gates Commit $10b Over 10 Years to Help Research, Develop And Deliver Vaccines
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced that their foundation will commit $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries. The Gateses said that increased investment in vaccines by...
$21 Million Sweet Potato Project Launched in Africa
In an effort to improve nutrition, incomes and food security, the International Potato Centre (CIP) has launched an Africa-wide project to exploit the untapped potential of sweet potato in eight African countries over a five-year period, a statement said...
A Hazardous Waste of Time
I suppose that a corollary to the harsh realities that Desmond Tutu tried to reveal to his audience at the World Economic Forum is that the rich and mighty really ought to have better things to do with their time than idle away half a week in Davos....
Einstein May Outrank Britney Spears But Survey Shows Science Education Needs Help in United States
The good news is Albert Einstein trumps Britney Spears. The bad news is Spears trumps Stephen Hawking. The worse news is nearly half of Americans couldn’t name Einstein, Hawking or any other current scientist as a science role model for today’s...
Bill Gates in Davos: Will His Voice be Heard?
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Bill Gates in Davos: Will his Voice be Heard? Bill Gates has done a clever thing in previewing his address to the World Economic Forum through an interview with Robert A. Guth, which was reported on the front page of today’s...
