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GATES FOUNDATION FOLLOWS NEW PATHS GIVING AWAY $3 BILLION A YEAR IS NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS.(News)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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June 25, 2008| Author:
Paulson, Tom
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Byline: TOM PAULSON P-I reporter
Out of a Laurelhurst basement and a garlic-scented room above a Redmond pizza joint, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged in little more than a decade as the world's largest philanthropy.
Its charitable war chest, already at $38 billion, will soon swell with the added wealth of another famous billionaire - with pressure to spend it. Construction has started on a new Seattle headquarters - complete with visitor cent...
