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Turner issued a challenge: rank the biggest givers instead of the biggest getters. Last week Microsoft's online magazine Slate took him up, launching the Slate 60, a list of the largest charitable donations in the country by families or individuals gathered from publicly available sources. These are numbers, and deeds, well worth highlighting. Last year Americans gave a record $143.9 billion to charity, with more than 70% of households contributing. The richest one-half of one percent of households were responsible for 11% of all giving...
...Slate 60, which will become an annual event, is a work in progress that follows some rather arbitrary rules, and new details are coming in daily. (Slate will publish an updated version in January.) The list omits anonymous gifts, which means at least 12 very big-ticket donors are missing from its 1996 ranks. It also excludes gifts by corporate foundations rather than individuals, and any gifts less than $1 million. Judging by a single year's giving, rather than by a lifetime of charity, causes distortions too. Microsoft head Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, for instance...
...full list, visit slate.com
...very surprised in your recent coverage of new electronic and computer gear [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25] not to read about any of the dozens of technologies that Apple has put in its customers' hands. While I know that you can't list everything, it does make me wonder what other first-rate equipment your evaluation team omitted. And, of course...why? PAYTON FLETCHER Bad Schwalbach, Germany Via E-mail...
...fans, and we use Macs here in the office. They are extremely good for graphics and multimedia. But there were no new Apple products this year that quite made the list. We look forward to next year...