The Forbes 400 – The Richest People in America

“The Forbes 400 is the definitive list of wealth in America, profiling and ranking the country’s richest citizens by their estimated net worths.”

  • Also via Forbes, The World’s Most Powerful People and With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again – “Gates currently has two of history’s greatest scourges in his sights: malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that infects 250 million a year, killing 800,000 of them; and polio. For the former he spent $200 million to rescue a vaccine that was in development at Glaxo but had no chance of ever being profitable—a recent study indicated that it will cut the infection rate in half. He’s dedicated to stamping out polio entirely, which would make it only the second disease ever to be extinguished from the face of the Earth, after smallpox.” And from previous beSpacific posting – Microsoft Research: How fighting email spam is helping the search for an HIV vaccine.
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