Bill Gates says the United States' position as the global leader in innovation is at risk.
"Literally millions of people will see it through the different partners we have, " Mr. Gates says.
Mr Gates says the task-force will interview soldiers to find out how a repeal would affect their morale.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he hopes that level can drop to 100, 000 by the end of next year.
It's underpowered, has a too-tiny screen and needs a hard disk, Gates says.
In response to critics, Gates says the issue isn't about raising wages.
Microsoft has been chastened and no longer forces the same kind of licensing agreements it once did, Gates says, and many observers agree.
But Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that's not a real possibility.
"Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives, " Gates says earnestly.
"Addition, subtraction, that's about it, " Gates says with a smile.
Gates says that the good news is that Microsoft is hiring people in the United States at a rapid rate, which allows the company to do more research and increase employment.
"We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology, " Gates says.
What Gates says carries weight on Capitol Hill not because he's particularly cozy with politicians (he's not), but because republicans and democrats seem to hold his reputation as a chief executive and philanthropist in high regard.
Mr Gates says that although a full overhaul of the policy will not come until 2011 at the earliest, he will announce policy changes next month that could make it easier for gays to serve in the armed forces.
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Gates says Yamaguchi started out as an experiment in the politics of art and race: What would happen to his pots and bowls, which weren't selling so well, if he told people they were made by the mixed-race son of a Japanese master potter who had taught his methods to the neighbors of his black Mississippi bride?
The fair in Seattle will also bring together researchers, designers and investors from 29 countries, the Gates foundation says.
Gates' attorney says Crowley is exaggerating about how upset Gates was and fabricated parts of his account.
Davidson says Gates' priority will be to provide a channel for the recommendations of the Baker panel.
The struggle was apparently resolved in 2001 when Bill finally accepted that he was number 2, "I had to change, " says Gates.
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"I used to think I wouldn't be all that interested in the baby until she was two or so and could talk, " says Gates as he shows off the more intimate family quarters.
"We felt we could help by operating quickly and quietly, " says a Gates Foundation mouthpiece.
When it comes to philanthropy, Klein says, Gates employs the same iconoclastic attitude that he did when running Microsoft.
"The first chip I designed in 1984 had 5, 000 electronic gates, " he says.
To that end, Pinchuk says that Gates has already asked him who else from Eastern Europe might also be a candidate.
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But at this point, he says, Gates has few directions in which to turn, and basically, he's got to come up with a creative strategy.
Higher interest rates seem to be having an impact, but so too are plans that haven't worked out and mergers that failed to produce synergies, says Daniel Gates, who wrote the Moody's Report.
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