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...booming work force. All told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed over the next 20 years to pay the full tab each year for about 1,000 black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian students seeking degrees...
Gates and his wife decided to launch the program after Gray took them on a tour of schools and libraries in Alabama. "They saw the needs facing minority students," says Patty Stonesifer, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "The No. 1 issue time and time again was cost...
...GATES FAMILY Bill and Melinda Gates welcomed Roy John Gates, the couple's second child, into the world on Sunday. The 8-pound, 12-ounce baby boy is the couple's first e-male, joining his two-and-a-half-year-old sister, Jennifer...
...former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand History: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (no relation) Biography: "Lindbergh," by A. Scott Berg General Nonfiction: "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee Music: "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion," by Melinda Wagner...
...million Amount Bill Gates and wife Melinda donated to child-immunization programs in developing countries...