The media played up Ted Turner’s $ 1 billion gift to the United Nations and financier George Soros’s donations of millions of dollars to Russia and Eastern Europe.

60岁以上美国老人手中拥有总额高达10万亿美元的巨额财富，这笔财富为21岁以下所有美国人读4年哈弗大学提供费用还绰绰有余。

Americans over the age of 60 are sitting on a pot of wealth totaling $ 10 trillion—more than enough to put every American under the age of 21 through Harvard for four years.

他从事医疗器械生意，与别人共同创建了波士顿科学疗法开发公司。

He got into the medical-device business and co-founded Boston Scientific, a company that specializes in developing less invasive medical procedure.