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Khan Academy: Taking Learning Out of 'One Pace Fits All' Classroomthe world have noticed, including some heavy hitters like Bill Gates . Gates did more than look at the Khan Academy videos, he in 2009, Khan finally quit his job and partnered with the Gates Foundation and Google to form the Khan Academy. Here's how it works
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Japan Tops List of Healthiest Countriespublished today. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 , a large-scale collaboration funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assess trends in health and disease in 187 countries, has released its rankings of the top 10 countries with the highest
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Warren Buffett's 7 Pearls of WisdomOf all the biographers competing to be Warren Buffett's Boswell, Carol Loomis, dean of writers at Fortune magazine, would seem to be the best equipped. For more than 40 years, she has been Buffett's personal friend and sometime bridge partner. For 35, she has ghost-edited his annual letter to the
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The Wealthiest Person in Each Statethe companies they founded. Bill Gates , the country's wealthiest compiled by Wealth-X. 1. Bill Gates : $64.5 billion Microsoft co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2. Warren Buffett: $49.6
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Forbes Assembles Billionaires For 'Richest Room In History'wow.'" The meeting was part of a larger Summit on Philanthropy , where 161 of the richest people in America met in June The 400 list's top-10 richest this year include: Bill Gates at #1; Warren Buffett, #2; and Larry Ellison, #3 richest people on the 30th anniversary Forbes 400 list: 1. Bill Gates , $66 billion 2. Warren Buffett, $46 billion 3. Larry
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Forbes Lists Most Powerful Womenhusband in 2000. Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates , came in fourth. She has been a fixture on the list. Gates co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , which gives out billions of dollars each year in grants and
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ABC News on the Map - Aug 15
music and dance in honor of the African nation's first gold since 1972. Seattle: Bill Gates Searches for a New Toilet The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is looking to fund an innovative toilet. One uses microwave energy to transform human
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The Global Note: Damascus Blasts…Toughest-Ever Cigarette Rules?…"Economic Suicide" in Europe…A One-Handed Maestro
with the government discussions. GATES FOUNDATION : REINVENTING THE TOILET The Gates Foundation wants inventors to re-think the into charcoal. They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet
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Women Demand More in AIDS Fightsaid. Recent outreach programs however have begun to show promise. Avahan, a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , offered more than $200 million over five years to build infrastructure for sex workers and provide them with preventative
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The Global News Quiz - Test Your Knowledge…
All taken from this week's "Global Note": QUESTIONS 1) The Gates Foundation announced a major companion to provide more of what for women around the world? 2) Who is Thomas Lubanga? 3) Which world leader
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The Global Note: Taliban Commander Speaks…Kofi Annan Speaks…Cruise Ship Captain Speaks…And Male-Only Parking
forced her to cut her speech short. Watch the video at ABCNews.com. GATES FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES MAJOR BIRTH CONTROL INITATIVE The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to unveil a campaign to improve access to birth control in the developing
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The Global Note: Another Band-aid for Europe?…Showdown In Cairo…In Niger, Daughters, Dowries & Hunger
spaced. The study is released ahead of a family planning conference in London organized by the British government and the Gates Foundation . IN NIGER, MARRYING OFF DAUGHTERS - BECAUSE OF HUNGER CRISIS A dramatic update to our reporting from Niger . The Washington
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Techies can appear slow to embrace philanthropy
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy , only two of the 20 most generous vary Mixed approaches to philanthropy in the technology sector The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , started by the Microsoft the Foundation Center. Bill Gates also co-founded, with Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy , a Wall Street-based
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Khan Academy: Learn Everything, Onlinedoing some unbelievable 15-minute tutorials. Reporter: Bill gates did more than look at the kahn academy videos. He helped 2009, kahn finally quit his day job and partnered with the gates foundation and google to form the kahn academy. Here's how it works
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Bill Gates' New FocusMicrosoft's bill gates ' last day instead on philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation so what does redefined philanthropy for the 21 they lose Bill Gates but what up. The gates foundation visited the the name Bill Gates . I'll invented philanthropy for the twentieth
with high tech and now he's moving month. Today marks Microsoft's -- bill gates' last day as a full time employees. Gates plans to focus instead on philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation so what does this mean for Microsoft and what does this mean for gates himself. Joining us from San Francisco is technologyI think he's -- shake it up. The gates foundation visited the -- enormously important foundation but so far it has been workman like but not terribly creative. And bills can apply his business creativity. And shake up the entire Philanthropic model. In fact I'll offer you -- forecast. Bill as a big deal and personal computers today but in the hundred years from now when people look back and they mention the name Bill Gates . I'll bet it's a little bit like the way we think of Andrew Carnegie today. People forget what -- He did He was in the steel business. All they remember is that He invented philanthropy for the twentieth century putting libraries into cities across the country. And reinventing the whole process. I'll bet you a hundred years from now Bill Gates is remembered Moore as the philanthropist. Who reinvented this landscape. That is the technologists to help bring the PC to us. -
June 27, 2008: Bill Gates Retireschanging the world. Bill Gates with tears in his eyes the goodbye. People Bill Gates saved his first public computer for our cause Bill Gates is. Almost single handedly that here and all that philanthropy might actually your
of the world's richest men retire in hopes of changing the world. Bill Gates with tears in his eyes you don't see that every day step down from Microsoft. ABC's Neal Karlinsky was in Redmond WashingtonPeople -- Bill Gates saved his first public display of emotion for his last day on the job during today's farewell speech to deploy easy. Ipeople. Really understand. How what -- revolution personal computer for our cause Bill Gates is. Almost single handedly responsible for putting a computer or two computers every single household in the United States and really around -
Be the Change: Your Old Phone Could Save a Lifehere with the story the latest are being the change save a life series which is sponsored in part. By the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in this kid is something. He really as He was a college sophomore just four years ago and it's the example
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Be the Change: Preparing for the 'Viral Storm'ABC's initially didn't change save a life for reducing with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . And this morning doctor Richard Boettcher investigates what it takes to stop the next global had been done. Mission Mattingly
life -- for reducing with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . And this morning doctor Richard Boettcher investigates what it takes to stop the next global had been done. Mission Mattingly C movie -
What Virus Will Be the Next 'Contagion'?the viral storm dawn of the new pandemic was published today in. Doctor Richard investors reporting part of ABC's initiative be the change save a life produced with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and we're grateful tomorrow.
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U.S. Students Tackle Bangladesh's Water Problemaway. It's all part of our year global health project to the change save a life sponsored in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Doctor Richard vessel went to Bangladesh report on how so many people especially children. Are grist
change save a life sponsored in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
