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...businesses. The state of Michigan, conceding that it can no longer count on the ailing auto industry to absorb its poorly educated and low-skilled workers, is retooling its high schools, instituting what are among the most rigorous graduation requirements in the nation. Elsewhere, organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Asia Society are pouring money and expertise into model programs to show...
...businesses. The state of Michigan, conceding that it can no longer count on the ailing auto industry to absorb its poorly educated and low-skilled workers, is retooling its high schools, instituting what are among the most rigorous graduation requirements in the nation. Elsewhere, organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Asia Society are pouring money and expertise into model programs to show...
With a $32 billion endowment that tops even that of the world’s richest university, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to spend itself out of existence, possibly before the end of the 21st century. The Gates Foundation will spend all of its resources within 50 years of the death of the last member of the board of trustees, consisting of Bill Gates, 51, Melinda French Gates, 42, and Warren E. Buffett, 76, the Foundation announced last week. The foundation, whose endowment will be $63 billion—more than double Harvard?...
...faux-corporate website www.nextgencode.com, complete with a picture of a sinister company headquarters, lets you browse the product line and see the "specials" on a gene for glossier hair or sharper vision or "BLSHt, for better verbal facility." You can meet the "staff," including a warm, smiling Dr. Melinda Johnson ("at NEXTgencode, I give parents the children they always wanted"). Anyone worried that natural blonds are an endangered species can relax: "We own the gene...
...would like to nominate Warren Buffett, the legendary head of Berkshire Hathaway. This year Buffett announced that he would donate most of his wealth to a number of worthy causes--including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. For his sense and humility, he should be TIME's Person of the Year...