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blogs.msdn.com - 2/6/2009
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Bill was on stage at TED today and caused a flutter in the audience and on Twitter when he released a troop of mosquitoes in to the audience. He was talking malaria and I’ve got to say, this sure sounds like it beat some of his CES demos. “I brought some mosquitoes - ...
valleywag.gawker.com - 2/4/2009
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valleywag.gawker.com —
TED, the annual gathering of the most pretentious
people from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design,
just got punk'd. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitos into the crowd. Ending malaria is a particular passion of ...
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Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquito Swarm
foxnews.com - 2/5/2009
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foxnews.com —
Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released mosquitoes
at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference to make
a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
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Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd
twitter.com - 2/4/2009
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twitter.com —
Loader Twitter.com Bill Gates just released mosquitos into
the audience at TED and said: "Not only poor
people should experience this." :) #TED about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry Picture_2_bigger davemorin Dave Morin Footer 2009 Twitter About Us ...
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Twitter / Dave Morin: Bill Gates just released m ...
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How Bill Gates started off 2009
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... Bill Gates was on stage at TED yesterday talking about malaria and spreading his message with live mosquitoes (one wonders how he got them in the first place). As Steve Clayton notes, Gates said "I brought some mosquitoes—we’ll let them roam around the auditorium. There's no reason only the poor should experience this…" and then unleashed the blood-sucking bugs into the crowd. Naturally, this caused quite a stir not only at TED, but on the Internet in general. ...
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