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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...
Both Gatses guard their privacy closely, barring reporters from their plane and their home in Seattle. Melinda, in particular, has resisted the attention that comes with their wealth. For the first nine years of their marriage, she declined almost all media interviews. She quit her job at Microsoft after she had their first child in 1996. "I wanted to have some privacy in our community," she says. "When I took the kids to a preschool event, a mommy-and-toddler event, say, I could be like all the other moms...