2006세계를 그대에게..

The richest man in the world, Bill Gates (L), and his wife Melinda (R) were named Time magazine's 'Persons of the Year,' along with Irish rock group U2's lead singer Bono, for being 'Good Samaritans' who made a difference in different waysTime's Persons of the Year,' the magazine said in its December 19 issue, made public on Sunday. Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria. (Gregory Heisler for Time/Handout/Reuters)

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda sit on a panel for a special youth forum on HIV/AIDS in Johannesburg in this September 22, 2003 photo. Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine's 'Persons of the Year' along with Irish rocker Bono for being 'Good Samaritans' who made a difference in different ways.. REUTERS Juda Ngwenya (Reuters)

Renee Zellweger, Bono, Ewan McGregorCeremony of Remembrance and Commemoration
Tribeca Film Festival, 5/6/2003 Photo: Kevin Mazur, Wireimage.com

세계제일 부자 빌게이츠와 그의 부인 멜린다 아이랜드 록스타 보노, 에이즈와 말라리아무지 등으로

일년간 8백만명의 목숨을 앗아가는 질병과 가난 등의 재앙의 뿌리를 뽑기에 색 다른 방법으로 달리

접근하여 노력한 이 세 사람 바로 타임지가 선정한 2005년사람들 중의 인물로 커버에 실렸다.젊은이의

교육 장학금 세계의 건강과 아프리카 나라들의 빚 탕감을 연주회 등을 통해 접근하여 세계에 알리고

해결하기 위한 그들의 노력으로 선정되었다고 편집인이 전한다. 아시아의 쮸나미, 미국의카트리나에서

보여준 인도주의면에서 전 미국 대통령 조지부시와 빌클린턴또한 선정 되었다.한 해의 인물을 뽑는 이유는

뉴스와 우리 실제의 삶에 좋은 방향이든 나쁜 방향이든 가장 큰 영향을 미친 인물을 찾기 위해 1927년이래

시행해 오고 있다. 1938년엔 아돌프 히틀러가 선정되고 1979년엔 회교근본원리주의자 아야툴라 호메이니가

선정되었고 2004년엔 조지 w 부시가 선정 되었으며 2003년엔 미국 군인들이 타임 커버의 영광을 차지헸다.

무척 신선한 느낌이 들지 않는가 키타 하나들고 노래하는 작은 섬의 록가수가 아프리카 그 나라들의 빚

탕감과 가난을 몰아내었고 또 지금도 몰아 내고 있다는 사실이 이 가수의 대중에게 알리기위한 8번의

콘서트로 서방에선 2010까지 천억불백조원)의 원조를 결정했었다. 멋지죠. 우리네 2006년은 그들을 넘어

서는 영향을 세계로...

Time Persons of 2005: Bill and Melinda Gates, Bono

By Claudia Parsons Sun Dec 18,11:19 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named

Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" along with Irish rocker Bono for being Good Samaritans who

made a difference in different ways.

The three were chosen for their work in trying to find ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa,

HIV and AIDS and the poverty that kills 8 million people a year, said James Kelly, Time managing editor.

The magazine's December 19 issue comes out on Monday.

Time also named former U.S. Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton as "Partners of the Year" for their

humanitarian efforts after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, and the unlikely friendship that developed

from that work."Natural disasters are terrible things, but what defines us is not what happens to us, but how

we react to it," Kelly told Reuters. "When you look at the number of people who die from the kind of diseases

and poverty that the Gateses and Bono are fighting, the death tolls are far greater than what occurs in natural

disasters or wars."

An unlikely alliance has emerged from Bono and the Gates' interest in aiding the poorest of the poor, after the

three met for dinner in 2002, Time reported.

Bill Gates, the founder of computer software giant Microsoft Corp., told Time that he was not sure at first it

would be worth his while to meet with Bono.

"World health is immensely complicated. It doesn't really boil down to a 'Let's be nice' analysis. So I thought

a meeting wouldn't be all that valuable," Gates told Time, adding that he quickly changed his mind. "He really

reads this stuff; he cares about the complexity."

THE ROCKER AND THE GEEK

Bono said that Gates' reputation for business savvy was a plus. "When an Irish rock star starts talking about it,

people go, yeah, you're paid to be indulged and have these ideas. But when Bill Gates says you can fix malaria

in 10 years, they know he's done a few spreadsheets," Bono told Time.

The Gates Foundation funds hundreds of projects around the world primarily focused on public health, from

vaccinating children to developing new drugs, as well as educational programs and scholarships in the United

States and elsewhere.

Bono and fellow musician Bob Geldof spearheaded a popular campaign to tackle poverty in Africa by canceling

the debts of the poorest countries in the world, raising global awareness through the Live 8 concerts in July.

Partly due to popular pressure, the world's industrialized nations agreed in July to double annual aid to poor

countries over the next five years to around $100 billion in 2010, and to cancel poor countries' debt.

Bono said he was humbled by being named a Time Person of the Year.

"There are a lot of people who could be here. What's really key is, all of us are in agreement that this can be

a generation that can end extreme poverty. And by that we mean stupid, daft poverty where 3,000 kids are dying

every day of a mosquito bite in Africa. Malaria," he said on the U2 Web site.

The Gates said they were "pleased by Time's recognition that we can solve these problems and that many

people must play a part in doing so. "We have great admiration for the determined and often anonymous people

who work every day to make the world abetter place," they said.

Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927 and the tradition has become the source of speculation

every year, as well as controversy over unpopular choices such as Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Ayatollah Khomeini

in 1979. The aim is to pick "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and

embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

Time's 2004 Person of the Year was U.S. President George W. Bush while "The American Soldier" graced

the 2003 cover in the year when U.S. troops invaded Iraq.