Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, co-founder of the software giant, plans to give up his day-to-day duties at Microsoft in 2008.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are well known for their work funding a wide variety of global health and agricultural programs, but what might be less well known is their work supporting U.S. education. Last year, Gates agreed to give 15 states $250,000 with which they could prepare fantastic grant proposals that would help them wow states into giving them federal stimulus money. Some states were left out of the bounty, which would make...  
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