Word: melindas
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...there, through rickshaw traffic jams and past lumbering cows, a local doctor briefed them on the slum's 9,000 residents and five health-care workers. Melinda listened intently with her eyebrows raised, as she almost always does, while Bill interrupted to ask the kinds of questions you would expect from a capitalist billionaire. "Who owns the land?" (The doctor wasn't sure, but probably the government.) "How much do the health-care workers earn?" (Ten dollars a month.) "Is that a full-time...
Sushila, dressed in a red sari, smiled broadly the whole time, showing improbably white teeth. Yes, her daughter Liza was born here in this room a month ago. Her husband is a carpenter. They pay $13 a month in rent. Melinda held Liza for a few minutes, and then she and Bill got up to go. "Very impressive," said Bill, using his default version of thank you. "Namaste [goodbye]," said Melinda, holding her palms together and bowing slightly...
...these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when medical breakthroughs could save the lives of millions. They see the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not as a solution but as a catalyst for this progress: pumping resources and rigor into the fight just when scientists are inventing new tools that could change everything. "This is a magic time in terms of the momentum we can get going," Bill says later from his hotel...
...women who start businesses with micro loans in Bangladesh. In these situations, they prefer it if people don't know who they are. "We're just people from the moon, as far as they know," says Bill. Later, they spend hours talking about everything they've seen. Says Melinda: "That's a huge side benefit. We love doing this together...
...immunize children in poor countries--dwarfing the Gateses' $1.5 billion contribution. "When the history of global health is written," says Dr. William Foege, a former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who now advises the foundation, "the tipping point will be two people: Bill and Melinda Gates...