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Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd

// February 5th, 2009 // Comments Off // Current Affairs

Microsoft founder
turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at
an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease
malaria.

“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.

“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”


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Compassion: In Theory & Praxis

// November 3rd, 2008 // Comments Off // Leadership


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