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Like many other African countries battling AIDS, Uganda is struggling to make the most of a sudden influx of dollars from First World donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose disease-fighting war chest just doubled in size, thanks to a $30 billion endowment from financier Warren Buffett. Uganda is planning to use its money to provide ARVs to every Ugandan who needs them, but the flood of money for medical care is running into a roadblock common in almost every Third World country: an infrastructure incapable of delivering it. In Uganda, for example, there is only...
...donations and pledges made by Warren Buffett--and Bill and Melinda Gates, who have given nearly $26 billion to their foundation so far--eclipse those of other great U.S. philanthropists...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...
Today not much is left of the pipeline company that Lay, the preacher's son from Missouri, turned into a high-flying purveyor of wind and water, electricity and energy emissions and, ultimately, hot air. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett now owns the Big E's biggest pipeline. Texan T. Boone Pickens has replaced Enron as the nation's biggest energy trader. A holding company that operated Enron's international assets last week sold off 15 pipelines and power plants, from Bolivia to Turkey...
...that happen to Swanson and his collection of folksy phrasings and spot-on aphorisms, which was first published in 2004 and given out free to Raytheon employees before it found a wide and enthusiastic audience that included Warren Buffett and Jack Welch? Credit goes to Carl Durrenberger, a San Diego engineer, who was packing up his cubicle at Hewlett-Packard to move to another division when he came across a copy of a 1944 chestnut given him by a former boss: The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King...