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	Can Facebook cure malaria?

Maureen Farrell

4-21-2008 5:57 PM

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Maureen Farrell says:

According to Reuters, a British serial entrepreneur launched a social networking site designed to help fight malaria. Yet another entrepreneur bringing capitalism and the spirit of entrepreneurship to social causes!

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