I'm catching up - Science (magazine) Vol 299 January 2003 devoted half a page to Bill Gates :
excerpt : " ... announced that his philanthropic organization will spend $200,000,000 (yes, all those zeroes !) on research into . . . some of the world's most deadly diseases (because they) are chronically underfunded." " . . . 10 concrete research projects that will make a huge dent in human disease and suffering worldwide." "The new program will be administered by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, a nonprofit corporation associated with NIH that allows the agency to accept money from nonfederal sources." "He was inspired by David Hilbert, a renowned German mathematician who formulated a set of unsolved math problems in 1900 that stimulated the field for decades. Gates said that he hoped a similar list of (funded for research) health problems would help attract resources for a focused assault by the medical field. Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
