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...foundation sees its role as filling the breach where the private sector is not addressing a crisis. The industrialized world's ailments, from indigestion to breast cancer, are already the focus of drug-company research. Cure a First World disease, and reap millions in profits. But cure a Third World disease such as malaria--the No. 1 killer in tropical climes--and there is hardly a penny to be earned. Those patients don't have health insurance. That is why the Gates Foundation has made finding a malaria vaccine a priority, along with eradicating scourges such as hookworm, hepatitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Billions Isn't Easy: Bill and Melinda Gates | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Ellison believes he does more good for society through his entrepreneurship, particularly his investments in biotech start-ups that he feels may have a leg up on finding a cure for cancer and other diseases. He has made cancer fighting a personal goal; his mother died from the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Gives Best By Investing: Lawrence Ellison | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Even if scientists figure out precisely how Alzheimer's destroys brains, it is not clear that they will be able to stop it. But it's also clear that no one will be able to treat the disease--let alone cure it--until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unraveling Alzheimer's | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching for a way to expiate sins committed in the service of "homophobic haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Fold? | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...have a memory problem. I have an information-overload problem. Information flows from the Internet, the telephone, the fax, the TV, movies and books. But the cure is cheap and simple: Remember what's important, and forget the rest. JUDY HORAN Omaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 3, 2000 | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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