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Microsoft's Bill Gates and his wife make it their business to give in a big way to programs for global health, education and more. The work is breaking records and saving lives.


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BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION WORLD HEALTH ORG

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By Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writer


SEATTLE � John D. Rockefeller once brooded that giving away money intelligently was more difficult than making it. Bill Gates, who has surpassed the oil titan as history's biggest philanthropist, doesn't completely agree.

'I think both making money and giving it away well are quite difficult � probably equally so,' the 49-year-old computer software giant wrote in an"