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The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. Haile Selassie

Government Practice Hazardous Arms Forces Intended Regards Use Transport Railway

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. Marcus Samuelsson

Life Water Consider Plentiful Would Would-Be Rarely Clean Clean Water Like Readily Without Available Pause Us Many Ever

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why? Abraham Verghese

Saying People Cancer Suicide Side Minds Like Leaves Question Lingering Survived Who Flip Why

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform. Eskinder Nega

Government Spring Arab Arab Spring Similar Something Never Overthrow Reform Authoritarian Report Did Happen Regime Might Ethiopia Suggest

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools? Haile Selassie

Job Finished Tools Shall

We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built. Haile Selassie

As one of the leading troop-contributing countries, Ethiopia attaches great importance to strengthening the role of United Nations peacekeeping to address challenges to international peace and security. Hailemariam Desalegn

Great Peace Challenges United Nations Address Security Leading Countries Importance Role Nations Ethiopia International International Peace Peacekeeping United Strengthening

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. Liya Kebede

Love Day Mother Honored About Most Am Being Acknowledged

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general. Marcus Samuelsson

Best Good You Fruit Hungry Classes General Between Snack Very Banana Get After In-Between Your Workout Desk

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues. Marcus Samuelsson

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. Marcus Samuelsson

War Tough Times Celebrate Tough Important Devastating Learned How Tradition Up Times Grew Holidays Grandmother Who Keep

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking. Marcus Samuelsson

Food Angry You Balance Cooking Benefits Aggressive Chef Passionate

Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death. Tedros Adhanom

Death Diabetes Healthy Organ Severe Lifestyle Lead Healthy Lifestyle Successfully Damage

Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights. Tedros Adhanom

Progress Witness Programs Incredible Combat Over Globe Around Malaria Been Years Tuberculosis HIV Africa Worked Fights

Simply put, girls and women are the keys that will unlock sustainable development. They are also at the center of the healthier and more resilient societies we desire. Tedros Adhanom

Women Will Girl Sustainable Development Keys Unlock More Put Simply Development Also Healthier Women Are Sustainable Center Societies Resilient Desire

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease. Tedros Adhanom

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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it. Abraham Verghese

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities. Abraham Verghese

Life Beautiful Time You Imagination Worlds Way Alive Visiting Would Abreast Never Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Beautiful Way Human Literature Your Activities Keeping Keeps Wider Spectrum

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. Abraham Verghese

School Year Cynical Students Undergo Clinical Conversion Medical Medical School Third

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients. Abraham Verghese

Trials See Take Instead Effectiveness Just Patients Ask Create Incentives Works Comparative Lets Away Need

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' Abraham Verghese

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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine. Abraham Verghese

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