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- Tesfaye Shiferaw, a UNICEF official ... about $3.5 billion in 2006, according to a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That same year, nearly $9 billion was devoted to HIV and AIDS, according to UNAIDS. Pneumonia is the biggest…
- Baltimore Sun
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- 11/19/2009
- Gates Foundation gives
- In exchange, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is handing them the biggest ... coalition of charter school organizations in Los Angeles, and $40 million to Pittsburgh Public Schools. Vicki Phillips, director of the foundation's K-12…
- Elizabethton Star
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- 11/21/2009
- Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality
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- Daily Breeze
- UW-Madison gets $9.5M Gates Foundation grant to study flu…
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the University of Wisconsin-Madison a $9.5 million grant to study influenza threats to human health. Scientists at the school will use funds from the Seattle foundation to identify virus mutations…
- Seattle Business Journal
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- 11/19/2009
- NEWS – Pittsburgh schools to get $40M from Gates charity
- PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Public Schools board is expected to accept a $40 million grant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ foundation to improve the way teachers are hired an evaluated. The school board has set a special meeting…
- Tribune-Democrat
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- 11/18/2009
- Pittsburgh schools to get $40M from Gates charity
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- Seattle Times
- Pittsburgh schools to get $40 million from Gates charity
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- PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
- Microsoft co-founder Allen fights lymphoma with chemotherapy
- Paul Allen has used his Microsoft earnings to take his interests to an extreme. Allen bought football’s Seattle Seahawks and basketball’s Portland Trailblazers, and he is part owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, a major league soccer team. He…
- Daily Oklahoman
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- 11/19/2009
- Microsoft co-founder treated for lymphoma
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- Contra Costa Times
- Bill Gates
- It hasn't been even two years since Bill Gates left his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy, and already he's shifted mostly out of the spotlight. At Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting Thursday morning in Bellevue,…
- Seattle Post Intelligencer
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- 11/19/2009
- Microsoft Bill Gates Takes Google, Terrorism War to Israel
- Bill Gates, the Microsoft CEO, made his first trek to Israel, but his media presence was upstaged by a terror bombing in Hadera. In addition, most likely due to Gates strict security contingent, his schedule was not broadcast by the…
- Israel News Agency
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- CNBC VIDEO: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates 'Walk & Talk' at…
- It was an extraordinary sight: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates walking around the Columbia University campus in Manhattan with CNBC's Becky Quick. While outdoors, they held umbrellas to protect themselves from a light rain. Buffett and Gates,…
- CNBC
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- 11/23/2009
CNBC- Bill Gates' inept college roommate gets a lot of heat at…
- Bing is a failure. Windows Mobile market share is dropping like a stone. The 'Microsoft Store' is an Internet joke. This man needs to get fired. I wish Bill Gates would come back, believe it or not. Microsoft's meeting with shareholders…
- Democratic Underground.com
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- 11/20/2009
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great
- Warren Buffett will be one of three co-chairmen for a just-announced $500 million Goldman Sachs initiative to help small businesses around the United States, and perhaps, the firm's damaged public image. Warren Buffett says he's not…
- CNBC
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- 11/18/2009
