True story: when I was attending a technical conference in Boston this past October, one of the presentations was from a professor from the University of Texas-Austin (IIRC) who had developed a portable, optical tester that could quickly and cheaply count white blood cells. The device was being used in central Africa and was particularly useful for detecting the presence of HIV before it became full-blown AIDS. At the very end, he acknowledged that the project was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
So it was appropriate and pretty cool that Bill Gates was awarded as one of Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” along with wife Melinda and rocker Bono for extraordinary charitable work.
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I thought it was a great choice, too, but we're definitely in the minority (at least among conservatives)...
It's good to see the rich, and wealthy help others without discrimination, or conditions. YOU GO Bill and Melinda
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