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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (38353)	2/5/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

BILL GATES SCOOP.... Okay, Street Life, your best source for news on the Web or anywhere, has just learned that Bill Gates has given two HUGE, I mean MEGA gifts to his charitable foundations. How much? Check this out: $3.345 billion!!!! FOR REAL!!! That's believed to be the largest charitable gift of all time!!! Gates gave some $2.23 billion to the William H. Gates Foundation, which makes grants in the area of world health and human services, as well as causes in the Seattle (grunge!) area. The total assets of that Foundation are now $4.2 billion. Gates gave the Gates Learning Foundation, formerly known as the Gates Library Foundation, $1.115 billion, upping its assets to $1.3 billion. The Learning Foundation provides libraries in low-income areas with software (Windows!) and computer services. Whoa, Bill!! Dude!!!! That's a lot of clamatoes, (or is it clamatos? Ask Dan Quayle.)