Very cool...

[ducknwork]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38556042/ns/us_news-giving/

[Gerry Clinchy]

The article notes that about $115 billion is already pledged.

Hard to imagine how much good could come of those amounts of money as a transfusion into the economic situation ... anything from a cure for cancer or AIDS (or any one of many other diseases) to finding workable alternative energy sources.