ChannelOklahoma.com - National News - Time: Bono, Bill, Melinda Gates 'Persons Of The Year': "'For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year,' the magazine said.
Time praised the Gateses for building the world's largest charity - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a $29 billion endowment - and for 'giving more money away faster than anyone ever has' in 2005.
The foundation has saved at least 700,000 lives in poor countries by investing in vaccination programs, has donated computers and Internet access to 11,000 libraries and has sponsored the biggest scholarship fund in history, the magazine said."
Sunday, December 18, 2005
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