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Article: X PRIZE Foundation Raises $2.7 Million at Gala Hosted at Google.
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- March 7, 2007
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-- Event Kicks Off $50 Million Drive to Support Development of New Prizes to Make Radical Breakthroughs in Critical Societal Problems --
LOS ANGELES -- The X PRIZE Foundation raised more than $2.5 million at the "Radical Benefit for Humanity" on Saturday evening. Hosted by Larry Page at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., luminaries from around the world attended including: Lawrence Bender, producer of "An Inconvenient Truth"; Tipper Gore; Sergey Brin, Google co-founder; Sir Richard Branson; Dr. Stuart Blusson, sponsor of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh; Robert K. Weiss, vice chairman of the X PRIZE ...