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The Good, the Exciting, and the Dull

With a crying infant and a growing toddler, I’ve been suffering from severe sleep deprivation, which means that I’m finding it hard to think on my own.  Creativity?  Gone.  Writing?  On hiatus.  Dreaming?  How do you dream when you never sleep?  So these days it makes me happy when someone does my thinking for me.

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"The Most Powerful International Public Health Official in History"

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The NY Times had a good profile of Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, who has been in the news recently because of her spearheading her organization’s effort to prevent the spread of swine flu.  According to the Times, she is perhaps “the most powerful international public health official in history.”  In this day and age of global travel and business, it’s important for people to work together to prevent diseases from spreading.  I’ve read nothing but positive things about Dr. Chan in the media, and it seems that swine flu has been relatively under control in recent days.

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