**Written by Doug Powers A condom manufactured using specs approved by the guy who green-lit Windows ME? Count me out. From ABC News: Gates will give a $ 100,000 grant to whoever can invent the “next generation condom” through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health. The estimated 80 grant recipients… Read more »
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Bill Gates Offers $100K Grant for Creation of ‘Next Generation Condom’
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of its Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, is offering a $ 100,000 grant for some organization to develop the Next Generation Condom. The challenge was described at the Foundation's website: read more Source: NewsBusters blogs
Bill Gates’ Education Reform Sparks Conservative Opposition
The second richest person on the planet, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has used the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $ 37 billion to fund philanthropic interests the world over. But Gates’s investment of $ 173 million to shape and promote a uniform set of education standards, known as the Common Core, has some education advocates… Read more »
Former Defense Secretary Gates: Should Be ‘Some Check’ on President Launching Drones at Americans
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that there should be "some check on the ability of a president" to launch a drone strike on Americans. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Gates recommended "a panel of three judges or one judge or something that would give the American people confidence that there was,… Read more »