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Microsoft founder andphilanthropist Bill Gates released his annual Gates Foundation letter Tuesday, and in it, he lays out three myths that he says are blocking progress -- that poorcountries are doomed to stay poor, foreign aid is a big waste, andsaving lives leads to over population. The letter, co-written by his wife, Melinda Gates, also looks at how the world isconquering its challenges.Speaking on CBS This Morning, Gates noted the importance improving health of the world s poorest people. We want to lift thosepeople up, he said. We want to get th adidas campus damen e childhood death rate downfrom the 5 percent that it is now, down to what it was in the United Statesin 1980, 1.6 percent, and it s go crocs absatz ing to take some of the world s wealth , anda lot of ingenuity to get it there. Addressing one ofthe myths he discusses in his letter -- that Poor countries are doomed tostay poor, Gates added, To get rid of a disease like adidas campus 80s malaria, itwill take new medicines, new vaccines to get their farming productivity -- whichis a third of the U.S. farming productivity -- up close to that level so theycan feed themselves, send their kids to school. In terms of diseases,such as polio, Gates said we need to get to zero cases in the world tostop outbreaks. However, that effort is met with some resistance in areas whereviolence and misunderstanding prevail. There sviolence, there s a misunderstanding about the vaccine, thinking that it s anevil plot of the West, he said. We have to get the truth out. We Ywau Election Rally In Turkey Draws 1.5 Million
A former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakeni stanley cup ng of leftist rebels won Colombia s presidency Sunday, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.The victory for Juan Manuel Santos, a 58-year-old economist and three-time government minister, was a ringing endorsement of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe, whose U.S.-backed security policies he helped craft and promised to continue.With nearly all polling stations reporting, Santos had 69 percent of the vote against 28 percent for former two-time Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. It was largest margin of victory in a p stanley cup residential vote in modern Colombian history, said Carlos Ariel Sanchez, director of the natio stanley becher nal electoral council.More than 3 percent of voters tendered protest ballots, indicating dissatisfaction with both candidates.Mockus ran an anti-corruption campaign atop a fledgling Green Party that many Colombians considered naive if well-intentioned. But after catapulting into early contention he stumbled with a series of gaffes that had Colombians questioning his ability to run a country still mired in a half-century-old conflict. Violence marred Sunday s vote as seven police officers and three soldiers were killed in separate attacks blamed on leftist rebels.The police were killed when a roadside bomb ripped apart their truck on a routine patrol in Colombia s northeast, authorities said, while the soldiers died in an ambush on an army patrol carrying election material to
Microsoft founder andphilanthropist Bill Gates released his annual Gates Foundation letter Tuesday, and in it, he lays out three myths that he says are blocking progress -- that poorcountries are doomed to stay poor, foreign aid is a big waste, andsaving lives leads to over population. The letter, co-written by his wife, Melinda Gates, also looks at how the world isconquering its challenges.Speaking on CBS This Morning, Gates noted the importance improving health of the world s poorest people. We want to lift thosepeople up, he said. We want to get th adidas campus damen e childhood death rate downfrom the 5 percent that it is now, down to what it was in the United Statesin 1980, 1.6 percent, and it s go crocs absatz ing to take some of the world s wealth , anda lot of ingenuity to get it there. Addressing one ofthe myths he discusses in his letter -- that Poor countries are doomed tostay poor, Gates added, To get rid of a disease like adidas campus 80s malaria, itwill take new medicines, new vaccines to get their farming productivity -- whichis a third of the U.S. farming productivity -- up close to that level so theycan feed themselves, send their kids to school. In terms of diseases,such as polio, Gates said we need to get to zero cases in the world tostop outbreaks. However, that effort is met with some resistance in areas whereviolence and misunderstanding prevail. There sviolence, there s a misunderstanding about the vaccine, thinking that it s anevil plot of the West, he said. We have to get the truth out. We Ywau Election Rally In Turkey Draws 1.5 Million
A former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakeni stanley cup ng of leftist rebels won Colombia s presidency Sunday, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.The victory for Juan Manuel Santos, a 58-year-old economist and three-time government minister, was a ringing endorsement of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe, whose U.S.-backed security policies he helped craft and promised to continue.With nearly all polling stations reporting, Santos had 69 percent of the vote against 28 percent for former two-time Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. It was largest margin of victory in a p stanley cup residential vote in modern Colombian history, said Carlos Ariel Sanchez, director of the natio stanley becher nal electoral council.More than 3 percent of voters tendered protest ballots, indicating dissatisfaction with both candidates.Mockus ran an anti-corruption campaign atop a fledgling Green Party that many Colombians considered naive if well-intentioned. But after catapulting into early contention he stumbled with a series of gaffes that had Colombians questioning his ability to run a country still mired in a half-century-old conflict. Violence marred Sunday s vote as seven police officers and three soldiers were killed in separate attacks blamed on leftist rebels.The police were killed when a roadside bomb ripped apart their truck on a routine patrol in Colombia s northeast, authorities said, while the soldiers died in an ambush on an army patrol carrying election material to
