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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bill Gates scrutinizes each project and often asks very specific questions. In one series of internal e-mail messages provided to TIME, Gates asked who would own the intellectual property arising from a particular vaccine program. Another exchange had him doubting that the per-dollar impact of a given program is "super-high...
...read two ways. On the one hand, it is a grand gesture: the donation by Oracle of 1,100 New Internet computers to the Dallas public-school system. But it is also a flagrant attempt to hype a pet project of his: the inexpensive network computer. This particular model is built and sold by NIC, a company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will talk up this project, part of the Oracle Promises program, while also plugging...
...anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
Some of his fellow big-dollar donors have privately equated CNN founder and Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner's philanthropic choices--in particular his endowment of a $1.1 billion United Nations Foundation--as equivalent to flushing money down the toilet. The U.N., after all, is as renowned for inefficiency and politicization as it is for peacekeeping...
...Want something closer to Okinawa? How about swimming with deadly, poisonous sea snakes? I bet the Japanese have not told Bill (Clinton), Tony (Blair) and Jacques (Chirac) about the incredibly poisonous snakes that swim about the islands of Okinawa. Even more dangerous - Bill, pay particular attention to this - these snakes have a tendency to come onto the beach late at night. So anyone planning some tomfoolery on the beach may want to reconsider...