Bill Gates, founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about the initiative to aid mothers and their newborns in poor countries during the 63rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 25, 2008 in New York City. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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The World's Billionaire Heiresses (To Be)
From the lyrics of Hall and Oates and Gwen Stefani to the lens of Andy Warhol, the entitled rich girl has long been fodder for artists and gossip mongers. These days that lens is turned on these girls at ever younger ages.
Passions Of The Billionaires
At an age when most children learn division, Ernesto Bertarelli studied the pharmaceutical business. His father, head of the drug-making company Serono, took his son to company meetings and industry conferences starting when he was just seven years old.
Are you born to be a billionaire?
Empire builders like Bill Gates and Sam Walton arent just great businessmen. They are bona fide revolutionaries.
The World's top billionaires
The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates reign as the worlds richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.
IBM recalls PC that changed world 25 years ago
An IBM brainchild born 25 years ago grew up to redefine modern life from the way people work to the way they look for love, chat with friends or even shop.
A strange dichotomy
There cant be any stranger dichotomy than in the "philosophies" of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates & US investor Warren Buffet versus US President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney.
Bill Gates' generosity may create more world problems
With regard to Bill Gates decision to move full-time into philanthropy in two years time (Gates to transition out of Microsoft leadership, June 16) and the effect that this might have on aid policy and development throughout the world, it is my
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Gates to 'transition out' of Microsoft leadership
Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, said on Thursday that he would give up the daily running of Microsoft by July, 2008, to concentrate on his foundations work tackling health and education problems.
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