Contagious strength
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Contagious strength

“Do it scared,” Karene-Isabelle Jean-Baptiste tells entrepreneurs. After almost 20 years as an engineer, Montreal-based Jean-Baptiste became a full-time photographer in 2019. She couldn’t have known that covid would hit the world a year later. Nor could she have known that a photography series she “did scared” would get national media attention, launching her new…

Polio and Vaccines
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Polio and Vaccines

Polio is a disease that the World Health Organization is seeking to eradicate worldwide. Today, wild polio cases occur only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The success of this eradication work is due to the availability of two very effective vaccines. These vaccines work by causing the body to generate an immune response against the poliovirus….

Courage for the Future
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Courage for the Future

Here in the U.S., we have, just now, the oddest relationship with the word “normal.” In the spring, we’d type promises to each other, to have dinner or a beer “when things are back to normal.” At some point everyone started adding scare quotes to “normal.” Now we say things like, “I’d love to see…