The Dress Is Back

To make any best-dressed list this spring, you'll just have to be in a dress. The dress is the star of the new season's collections, making as strong a fashion statement as it did in the fifties. It's all part of fashion's current ladylike mood - harking back to more conservative times and get

The Buck Never Stops Here

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the computer giant Microsoft, was recently declared America's richest man. With an estimated fortune of $12 billion, he intends to donate 95 per cent of his fortune to charity when he reaches his fifties. Good for him. But how have some of history's other richest peo