Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Wed, Sep 3, midnight
Impatient for solutions to AIDS, tuberculosis, and infectious disease, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put out a call for anyone who thought they had an idea — and more than 4,000 poured forth. A second request for grant applications goes out today.
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Posted Fri, Aug 22, 4 a.m.
Gates Foundation-funded research is putting war deaths three times higher than conventional ways of counting them. In turn, good data might drive good international politics.
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Posted Thu, Aug 7, 5 a.m.
As vaccine research retrenches, scientists seek to provide a stopgap with new approaches to HIV prevention that were first explored with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Posted Wed, Jul 9, 2 p.m.
Gates Foundation-backed vaccine developers have found a way to send genetic text messages to the cells of the body to evoke immunity to pneumonia. It could save the lives of a million children a year, yet fluency in the language of the immune system will not come easily.
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Posted Sun, Jun 29, 9 p.m.
Traditional methods of scientific research have not produced the medical breakthroughs he expected. Now he's going to use his money, through the Gates Foundation, to challenge old ways. The man is breathtaking.
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Posted Thu, Mar 13, 5 a.m.
The new master plan for the signature park near the center of the city creates more open space and adds some good amenities, but it keeps the awkward Center House and proposes a living-together arrangement with school football teams.
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Posted Wed, Oct 3, 5 a.m.
Fifty years ago, the launch of the first satellite changed the world, but one of the places that felt the impact most was Seattle. Not only did the orbiter alter the city's course, it influenced the generation of world-shapers that includes Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
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Posted Tue, Aug 21, 5 a.m.
More than two years of planning and public hearings for a new skateboard park ended with an unplanned compromise site that is highly problematic. Here's what happened. Still unclear is why it happened.
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Posted Mon, Jul 30, 11 a.m.
Paul Allen's recent interview with The Seattle Times provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a billionaire who's known more for his toys than for his intentions to develop Seattle.
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Posted Sat, Jun 2, 1 p.m.
The longtime Northwest journalist and author lets fly some arrows in a guest column in The New York Times.
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Posted Mon, Apr 23, midnight
With downtown crying for more park land, the pressure is on to make Seattle Center more park-like. New plans for recasting the Center seem to respond to that.
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Posted Wed, Nov 12, 12:07 p.m. 2008
The goals are great, as are the resources. But the new focus risks perpetuating some problems with testing and misses a chance to do more with poor kids in early grades.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 30, 10 a.m. 2008
Global health funding gets freaky.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 22, 12:51 p.m. 2008
TechFlash launches as part of Puget Sound Business Journal, with two respected technology reporters who jumped from
Posted Mon, Jul 7, 5:12 a.m. 2008
Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate and a half-time Seattle resident, is involved in an interesting new project. It's a Web site gathering quality commentary about "Creative Capitalism." It's well worth looking at.
MOREPosted Wed, Apr 9, 11:24 a.m. 2008
Seattle City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs, who joined the library system in 1997 and spearheaded a remarkable period of building new libraries, is leaving on August 10 to become deputy director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries Initiative. The announcement is a surprise, as Jacobs had expressed her desire to serve many more years as City Librarian.
MOREPosted Thu, Mar 6, 2 p.m. 2008
All you folks seething with envy over the fabulous wealth in the region, you can calm down a little. Not only is Bill Gates III demoted to No. 3 on Forbes' recent list of the world's billionaires; the Northwest, by my count, only places eight folks in the top 500. Nor does America hog all the wealth, as you might have imagined. Of the top 25 billionaires, only four are from the U.S. of A. They are: Warren Buffett (tops the list at $62 billion), Gates (third at $58 billion), Sheldon Adelson (the Las Vegas developer, 12th at $26 billion), and Oracle's Lawrence Ellison (14th at $25 billion). The country with the most billionaires in the top 10? India (with four).
MOREPosted Tue, Feb 12, 1:27 p.m. 2008
Slate.com is out with its annual list of the top 60 American philanthropists, and there's a surprise for the mega-wealthy Northwest. Only one person from the region makes the list, Phil Knight, the Nike CEO, who comes in 16th of the top 60 for his $100 million gift to the University of Oregon. That's it. No Bill Gates this year, though he's often led the list. Nor does any Washington institution figure as recipient of a large gift.
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