• The kid who was coding before it was cool

    The kid who was coding before it was cool

    Mar 12, 2015 06:55 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Computer coding -- it’s the skill in demand in seemingly all professions these days. But back before Mark Zuckerburg and Bill Gates were household names, knowing programming languages wasn’t such a big deal. Nor was it considered a viable career. Avi Flombaum knows that firsthand. He ...

  • The Indiana Jones of collapsed cultures: Our Western civilization itself is a bubble

    The Indiana Jones of collapsed cultures: Our Western civilization itself is a bubble

    Dec 22, 2014 05:04 PM EST

    ... of foreign powers for 2,300 years. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even ...

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    Making Sen$e of New Credit Card Rules and More

    Oct 30, 2009 08:19 PM EST

    ... shows featured here on the Business Desk, and play around with a collection of fascinating calculators that allow you to measure relative worth over time – what your first salary would be worth today, whether Andrew Carnegie was richer than Bill Gates is today, you name it. Have a great weekend.

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    Conversation: Ken Auletta, Author of "World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies."

    Feb 26, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ... and from Bill Gates down was offended that this trial was taking place. They thought they were being wronged. And the world's richest man, Bill Gates, thought he was a victim and honestly believed the government was wrong. I think it clouded... this passionate belief that Gates had clouded ...

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    Behind the Scenes at an Interview With 3 Powerful Women

    Mar 10, 2011 01:09 AM EST

    ... organization, CARE, last week, asking if I'd be interested in interviewing CARE's president, Dr. Helene Gayle, former first lady Laura Bush and Melinda Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, around the observance of International Women's Day. They wanted to discuss their shared concern for global programs ...

  • First data for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine show it spurs an immune response

    First data for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine show it spurs an immune response

    Jul 15, 2020 02:31 PM EST

    ... first decoded the genome of SARS-CoV-2. “It’s amazing just how fast we’ve gotten to this point,” Penny Heaton, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Research Institute in Cambridge, Mass., said in an interview. “It’s like six years of work has been compressed into six ...

  • Melinda Gates says Common Core pushback propelled by changing too much, too fast

    Melinda Gates says Common Core pushback propelled by changing too much, too fast

    Oct 07, 2015 08:12 PM EST

    https://youtu.be/dROMKGnpwvc Tonight PBS NewsHour Anchor Gwen Ifill talks with Bill and Melinda Gates about their foundation’s influence on American public education and what they’ve learned in 15 years of supporting sometimes controversial reforms. The couple have been criticized in some quarters for pushing changes that ...

  • Is giving money to poor countries doing more harm than good?

    Is giving money to poor countries doing more harm than good?

    Jul 14, 2014 01:18 PM EST

    ... Africa which is at those incredibly low-weight rates. Why is it not possible for modern enterprise to operate better? Paul Solman: So you mean Bill and Melinda Gates are doing more harm than good by keeping people alive longer so that their standard of living goes down? Greg Clark ...

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    Obama, Boehner Look Ahead to Next Budget Deadline

    Mar 04, 2013 02:00 PM EST

    ... would give the Pentagon greater flexibility when it comes to implementing reductions to the defense budget. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" taped Friday, following the visit by congressional leaders to the White House, that he had discussed with the ...

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    On Tuesday's NewsHour...

    Oct 05, 2010 10:14 PM EST

    TIMES SQUARE ATTEMPTED BOMBER SENTENCED | Faisal Shahzad was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for trying to set off a bomb in New York's Times Square in May. WYNC reporter Ailsa Chang was in the courtroom and speaks with Jim Lehrer about the sentencing. WISCONSIN'S NECK-AND-NECK SENATE RACE | With four weeks remaining until...