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• US, UN and Islamic group join forces to fight polio

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New York, Dec 3 (DPA) The US joined the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Unicef to plan a campaign for completely eradicating polio worldwide, it was announced.The three parties met at United Nation’s Children’s Fund (Unicef) headquarters in New York to sponsor the discussion on “joining forces ...
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• Gates Foundation Gives $3.4 Million For Library Broadband

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 694
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have committed nearly $3.4 million in grants to improve Internet connections for libraries in five states. Nationally, libraries report that demand for high-speed Internet access is growing faster than their ability to provide increased bandwidth. An American Library ...
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• Treat HIV/AIDS as social, developmental issue, say experts (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) On the eve of World AIDS Day, experts working in the field of HIV-AIDS Monday stressed the need to consider the disease more as a developmental and social issue than a health issue to check its spread.“Now, AIDS is more of a developmental and social problem than a health problem. [...]
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• New video: Bill and Melinda Gates “Meet the Press”

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  Today NBC aired an interview with Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press”. David Gregory asked the Gates various questions about global health and poverty issues.Check it out:Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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• Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 November 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Talk Shows Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Howard Dean, former national Democratic Party chairman; Maj. Gen. Carla Hawley-Bowland, commanding ...
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• Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press” this Sunday

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  This Sunday, as part of a program in the spirit of Thanksgiving and giving back, David Gregory will host Bill and Melinda Gates on “Meet the Press” to discuss “the work they’ve been doing through their foundation to improve health and education around the world.” Pastor Rick Warren is also a guest.We’ll ...
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• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

  
  Clif's Notes — Authority: 120
  “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive ...
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• Pass it on

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  As part of the Living Proof Project, the Gates Foundation recently cut this great video highlighting some of the great successes in global health over the years. Check it out, and pass it on:
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• Gates Foundation issues statement on USAID Administrator nominee

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has just issued a statement regarding Dr. Rajiv Shah, President Obama’s selection to be the next USAID Administrator. You can read ONE’s take on the pick here.Gates Foundation statement:The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah as the next administrator of the United States Agency for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Bill and Melinda continue with their scheme to destroy public education, something of which they know nothing about: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, with major grants for experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and ...
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• America’s Youth: Growing up in a Business Incubator

  
  Life of a Founder: The Story of Collarfree.com — Authority: 120
  There are two things that get me really jacked in life: Good ideas, and good ideas put into action. Cristo Rey is a network of private schools set up primarily in neglected urban neighborhoods. Here’s what’s great about the schools: Their mission is to narrow the ‘ achievement gap ‘ that is to say they ...
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• $500 million charity headquarters for the Gates Foundation: Bill blings it up indeed!

  
  Elite Choice — Authority: 534
  The first thing people will say when they hear the news, “Does a charity organization need a $500 million headquarters?” You might debate that all night long and question the decision’s sensibility but we believe that its Bill’s money and he has every right to spend it any way he wants… As simple as that. ...
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• Education Compact Explores Credential Repository

  
  SayCampusLife — Authority: 127
  Countless numbers of students begin their college education only to have it interrupted before they are able to complete their degrees. Family responsibilities, job changes and relocating to a different state are among the factors which force students to put their plans on hold, with many never able to complete their ...
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• NY Philharmonic Performance for Polio

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  Rotary International is teaming up with violin virtuoso and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman and the world-renowned New York Philharmonic to present the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the global effort to eradicate this disabling and sometimes fatal childhood disease. Polio eradication resonates ...
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• Brown asked to investigate legitimacy of Blair’s companies

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  London, Nov. 15 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been asked to investigate the legitimacy of his predecessor Tony Blair’s multi-million pound companies and partnerships, which he set up after leaving the office.Blair, who is estimated to have earned as much as 15 million dollars since leaving office, ...
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• New USAID Chief Faces Internal Skepticism

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 735
  Rajiv Shah and USAID (Department of Agriculture, USAID) After nearly 11 months of allowing the top U.S. foreign-development bureau go without permanent leadership, the Obama administration decided Tuesday afternoon on the unconventional choice of Rajiv Shah , a 36-year old undersecretary of the Department of ...
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• The Education Wars

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Naturally the usual suspects are involved in a report about a "report card" of the nations school districts . More flexibility. States and districts must empower schools and principals, develop student-based funding policies, and reinvent education management. * Better accountability. States and districts should ...
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• Protecting Children from Rotavirus

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  If you watched Bill and Melinda Gates’ “Impatient Optimists” presentation, you probably remember this discussion about rotavirus, and the deadly impact it can have on children:The Living Proof Project also has this great corresponding photo gallery documenting clinics in Managua and Pantasma, Nicaragua where ...
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• CFR Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity to Drive Up Demand for H1N1 Vaccine

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 152
  Laughter as dignitaries discuss making vaccine mandatory, tricking public into taking itA recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public to take the H1N1 flu vaccine in spite of the mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over ...
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• Breastfeeding in Ghana

  
  ONE — Authority: 548
  As part of the Living Proof Project, which we’ve covered extensively here on the ONE Blog, the Gates Foundation has posted this photo gallery following women at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana. It’s part of a larger discussion about the benefits and techniques of breastfeeding, which were also examined in ...
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