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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Bill Gates Asks Youth to Think about the Poor
The Microsoft billionaire asked teenagers and twenty-somethings to do something he hadn't done that much, at least as a young university student -- think about the poor.
"I encourage you to have a much better awareness during your university years of the situation of those people than I had," Gates said recently to a theatre full of students at the University of Waterloo.
But at least one student said that while he's impressed with Gates' focus on charitable work, his first goal is finding a job.
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"I encourage you to have a much better awareness during your university years of the situation of those people than I had," Gates said recently to a theatre full of students at the University of Waterloo.
But at least one student said that while he's impressed with Gates' focus on charitable work, his first goal is finding a job.
Full story here
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