People who love books are as passionate about their cause as people who love Relay For Life. The Wall Street Journal today has a nice write-up on the eCommunity Library Thing. Library Thing is for people who love to read and want to share their collections and experience with books and reading. Want to meet people who absolutely adored Clifford ...
Read More »Good article on Gates and other big philanthropists of history
Now everybody’s speculating about what Gates will do with all that money. Here‘s a little look back at some other biggies of the past.
Read More »Maybe the market does work
An article from the NYTimes suggestes that physicians are managing to find time to be with patients–when the threat of losing customers is strong enough. Interesting quotes: …doctors know that as walk-in medical offices and retail-store clinics pose new competition, and as shrinking insurance benefits mean patients are paying more of their own bills, family care medicine is more than ...
Read More »Them that has, gets
Geez! No wonder Bill Gates is semi-retiring from Microsoft to manage his foundation. Now it turns out that Warren Buffett is turning over $30.71 billion (that’s right, billion!) to Big Bill to manage. This will make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the biggest philanthropy of all time. And with all that moola comes a lot of power. Absolutely anybody ...
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