Bill Gates Was Moved By A 1997 Headline That Said Water Was A 'Deadly Drink' And That's When He Set His Sight On Global Health

Bill Gates Was Moved By A 1997 Headline That Said Water Was A ‘Deadly Drink’ And That’s When He Set His Sight On Global Health

Bill Gates says a single New York Times column he read in 1997 with the headline “For Third World, Water Is Still a Deadly Drink,” pushed him from Microsoft’s helm toward global health, launching a drive that has helped cut childhood deaths from diarrhea by more than 70%. What Happened: Writing on his Gates Notes…

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Tennessee inmate's heart device must be turned off before execution to avoid shock risk, judge rules

Turning off inmate’s heart device to avoid shock risk at execution would cause chaos, Tennessee attorneys say

A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause “chaos,” state attorneys said in an appeal. The argument was one of several in a filing Wednesday that seeks to overturn an order to deactivate Byron Black’s…

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