Bill and Melinda Gates were interviewed on CBS News’ 60 Minutes Sunday evening about the Gates Foundation’s goals in global…
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I posted earlier about the weirdness of Carlos Slim and Bill Gates partnering up as philanthropists. Here’s an article quoting…
I just read an interesting post by the always thoughtful Alanna Shaikh on the increasing number of corporations who want…
Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world, for the moment anyway, with a net worth of something like…
Primitive cooking stoves kill nearly two million people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and place second only…
I don’t know who made the call to do this, the Guardian newspaper or the Gates Foundation. But I don’t…
Okay, this could be a little awkward. But it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of arrangement; nor…
Clay Holtzman of the Puget Sound Business Journal offers further thoughts on the Gates Foundation’s annual report, beginning with the…
Among the many activities pegged to the UN Millennium Development Goals meeting to be held in New York in a…
Yawner, you say? Not if you read the news on this report. Annual reports are often pretty boring. And the…