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...behavior raises a question. Her bizarre actions were well known by everyone in several commands. Since all officers must undergo a periodic evaluation of their performance by superiors, how did Graf continue to get top ratings? That question, it seems, must be asked of Graf's superiors. William Aylward Reston...
...William Aylward, RESTON...
...curtailed due to rumors that the program was a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls. By the end of 2003, another 447 children in Africa had been paralyzed, and health officials are worried the tide has turned against them. "This year is the real nail biter," says Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the WHO's polio-eradication program. "Under a thousand cases is an unnatural state for an epidemic disease. Either we force it down to zero, or it is going to blow up and paralyze hundreds of thousands of children every year...
...drives involving thousands of local health workers and volunteers. Every six weeks, they fan out through cities and villages, each worker carrying a thermos of vaccine vials, roughly drawn maps and a clipboard to chart their progress. "It's like running three national elections eight times a year," says Aylward, "only you are going to the houses rather than bringing kids to the voting booths...
...must keep the pressure on. In the past 18 months, 77 new cases have appeared in nine African countries that were previously polio free. Another has just surfaced in Darfur, Sudan, bordering Chad, where refugee camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...