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Posted: October 10, 2012 at 5:10 a.m.
Bill Gates, 56, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, told attendees at a conference in the United Arab Emirates that he “would never run for political office,” adding that his current job with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation comes with “a very nice office,” doesn’t require him to raise funds to “try to get elected” and doesn’t “have term limits of eight years.” Ben Siegel, owner of the Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Fla., said “we feel terribly awful” over the death of Edward Archbold, 32, who collapsed and died shortly after winning a roach-eating contest at the store.
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