This is the archive for 26 June 2006
By Barbara Schoetzau
VOA News
The world's second wealthiest person, investor Warren Buffett, has announced he will give the bulk of his $44 billion fortune to a foundation run by the world's richest man, computer tycoon Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.
Photo courtesy the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, New York City, June 26
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James Logan’s Jeff Bogess and Nathaniel Nguyen are the new national champions in Duo Interpretation and the Logan Forensics team came out on top of the National Forensic League’s Nationals, held last week in Texas.
Nathaniel Nguyen, left, and Jeff Bogess are national champions in Duo.
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The Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) main camera has ceased to function.
The telescope revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe. It has three separate electronic cameras and a collection of filters and light dispersers that are used to photograph distant celestial objects.
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Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York – May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was an educational philosopher, a president (1929–1945) of the University of Chicago and its chancellor (1945–1951).
Read Hutchins'
The University of Utopia free from the University of Chicago.
Robert Hutchins
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