December 31, 2004According to Google News, 500 million dollars, the current amount of tsunami aid originating from countries and the World Bank, gets you:
Four Boeing 7E7 planes
A wireless network in Inida
A North Sea oil field
A bazaar in Dubai
New school sports programming in England
Lloyds bank internal and customer service IBM network
It is also the amount of money requested by Indonesia's Ministry of Defense to produce military vehicles.
