Evan Zambo-Blam

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June 13, 1999, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
This is pretty dated, but take a look anyway... At last count, Bill Gates had an estimated net worth of $42 billion dollars ($42,000,000,000.000.00). He has earned since his birth an average of $32.31 per heartbeat, and this is escalating. He recently donated $200 million to place computers in libraries across the country. This is 1/210 of his wealth. Here are some other things he could do: * Pay NBA MVP Michael Jordan's salary for 1,394 years. * Give every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth $7.46. * Pay every California Lottery prize for the next 34 years. * Fund 158 Mars Pathfinder missions. * Fund the US Department of Education for 19 years. * Pay tuition for the residents of Seattle and Tacoma to go to the University of Washington for four years. * Fund the US presence in the Persian Gulf for 11 months. * Fund the US peacekeeping forces in Bosnia for 157 years. * Buy 233,346,297 copies of Microsoft Windows 95. * Buy 1,680,000,000 cop...