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DailyTechMicrosoft To Cut 5000 Jobs; F2Q Net Falls >MSFT

Wall Street Journal - 35 minutes agoMicrosoft Corp. (MSFT) said Thursday it will cut 5000 jobs over the next 18 months in the software giant's first-ever significant round of layoffs as the company reported a worse-than-expected 11% drop in fiscal second-quarter earnings and pulled its

... meanwhile back in Texas...

Dallas, Fort Worth and other Texas school districts will share nearly 7 million dollar in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money should help more high school students go to college.

6.7 million dollars from the Gates Foundations and others will fund research to improve teacher and student performance. The Texas High School Project, run out of Dallas, will get some of the money. In turn, it'll work with DISD and some other big city districts in a pilot project.It's designed to speed up educational research in urban high schools. Faster access to rapidly changing information is the goal. The payoff's designed to help more high school students stay on track for college. The announcement's expected later this morning at DISD's W.T. White high school.

... and out in San Diego...

The global effort to eradicate polio, which began more than two decades ago and has suffered repeated setbacks, will receive an additional $635 million in an effort to finish the job over the next five years.
The money will be used to intensify vaccination campaigns in northern India and northern Nigeria, the two regions that account for more than 80 percent of the remaining cases of the paralyzing infection. In addition to those two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only others where "wild" polio virus still circulates.
Providing the new infusion of cash are Rotary International, the service organization that first proposed the eradication of polio and has raised $825 million toward the goal; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and the governments of Germany and Britain.
About $6.17 billion has been spent so far on the eradication effort. The United States has contributed $1.4 billion over the years and is the biggest single donor.
"If we don't do this, we will lose all the investment we have made in the past," Gates said yesterday at a Rotary conference in San Diego.