Last night I went to the final stop on U2's 360 concert tour with the Black Eyed Peas at Vancouver's BC Place and the concert definitely lived up to the hype. Our seats faced directly onto the open bowl area...
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Microsoft's Bill Gates has distributed grants of $100,000 to aid 76 research projects for world problems such as malaria. One of the new projects for malaria research uses both gum and chocolate to detect the...
This article was subsequently republished by the author at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.NowPublic participant Peter.Sande has pointed out in an article here today that one of the health bills moving through the US Congress would: "'enable the real-time (or near...
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Bill Gates, investor in a company called Searete, has filed patent applications aimed at halting hurricanes. The founder of Microsoft is an investor in a parent company Intellectual Ventures and is listed as...
On my travels a few weeks ago I saw my mother, Joyce Spataro and aunt, Elaine Smith. Unprompted by me they started talking about how much they dislike their computers. My short video raises a lot of...
I think Microsoft is not that ready to take the gme of antiviruses. " Baptized as Morro, this is set to deal with viruses but the thing is it lacks the wide range of utilities that is commonly offered in paid security software suites such as parental locks. Microsoft promised...
Bill Gates has made a new find in Buffalo Bill's famous Irma Lake Lodge.The world's richest man has bought the 492-acre prime property comprising a large lake and four ponds with panoramic views of the mountains in a scenic area 50 miles east of the famous Yellowstone...
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Since 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent about $4 billion helping to improve high schools and promote college access. Gates wants to promote better teaching in the neediest schools and provide...
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Super rich Bill Gates have give £1 million to the Universty of Edinburgh in Scotland to help research childhood pneumonia, something that kills millions of young children every year. The money will be used to help...
I grew up with Bond movies. Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, and Roger Moore fuelled my teenage and post-teenage fantasies of a fun, exciting, glorious and meaningful life. What could have been...
opinion by steffanileman | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 519 views | 61 recommendations | 12 comments
The world's richest people aren't quite so rich anymore, with fewer billionaires on Forbes rich list than last year. In 2008 there were 1,125 billionaires, this year there are only 793. Thanks to the financial...
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Republicans are refusing to take money from the Stimulus! Does this mean more money for those who do want it? Sign me...
opinion by djermano | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago 162 views | 1 recommendation | 10 comments
The International Public Health Forum welcomes the recent whirlwind around polio in Nigeria is a welcome development that should create the necessary drive towards a final putsch to pull the final chapter to an embarrassing problem. The fact that this embarrassment is...
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Well, it's one way of making a point, I mean, I guess... in his opening-session speech at TED, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates unleased a swarm of mosquitos into the audience in order to make a point about the...
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[Watch Video] Question Kaywood Hopkins had for CNN's Situation room to Microsoft's Bill Gates. (Also viewable at CNN's iReport.com) Mr. Gates: Recently you created the Microsoft Connecter Shuttle to connect all...
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