America has 267 billionaires and 2,500,000 millionaires

Gates foundation gets 3,000 serious funding requests each month

Stonesifer at Gates foundation says,
   "We can cause enormous health improvements rapidly."
   She talks in terms of saving millions of lives, of improving billions of lives.

Many Microsofties have started foundations.
   "The status symbol of this decade is having your own foundation named after you"

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