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...megaboss just plunked down $3.3 billion for the benefit of two charitable foundations, whose names (if not functions) you may recognize: the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation. The former supports world health and human services programs, while the latter helps libraries in poor neighborhoods obtain software and computer services. TIME magazine Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says that this is believed to be "the largest charitable donation by any individual. The donations are a testament not only to Microsoft's huge success, but also to the incredible wealth that is being made across Silicon Valley...
Black home ownership trails that of whites by nearly 30 percentage points--a gap Fannie Mae hopes to close. The federally chartered mortgage financier announced a partnership with the N.A.A.C.P. and BankAmerica last week to provide $110 million in financing aimed at helping disadvantaged blacks and other minorities obtain a mortgage with only a 3% down payment. For information on the program, which begins in a month, call...
...advertisement playing on the telephone. Last week BroadPoint Communications introduced a service that gives consumers as much as two minutes of free long distance for every 10-to-15-sec. targeted ad they hear. Already 40,000 callers have surfed to www.broadpoint.com to fill out a detailed questionnaire and obtain a PIN for the 800 service, known as FreeWay. Of course, with long-distance rates already as low as 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute, listening to yet another Blockbuster or T.G.I. Friday's pitch may seem too high a price...
...guess again: It does indeed count -- especially when it pertains to counting. By a 5 to 4 vote, the Justices ruled on Monday that, for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats, the Census Bureau can't use estimates to determine the population of areas where it's difficult to obtain the actual number of residents. Writing for the conservative majority of the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the language and history of the federal law governing the census cannot be interpreted to permit statistical adjustments. "The clear arithmetic of the decision," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley...
...With the 2000 census fast approaching, the Clinton administration had pressed the court to permit demographic sampling and estimates to obtain a more accurate count of the population in likely Democratic areas. Past studies have shown that poorer people living in inner-city areas -- and presumed to vote Democratic -- have been harder to reach and thus often undercounted when direct methods, such as mail-in questionnaires or door-to-door inquiries, have been used. "Whatever the correctness of the legal interpretation," says Pooley, "the decision is wrong on the reality. Every responsible analyst has said there is a serious undercounting...