forwarded by Michael Hoover Forwarded message: > Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said, in an ABC News "20/20" program > interview to be broadcast Friday, that his donations to society would > exceed $1 billion during his lifetime. > > "Well, at age 42, I've given at this point a little over $500 million to > foundations that are doing some things I really believe in," Gates said > in a transcript of the interview, released Thursday. > > The foundations to which Gates has already given $500 million are the > Gates Library Foundation and the William H. Gates Foundation.