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Winter

Winter is arriving quickly — days are shorter and most people are waiting for the snow to go skiing — almost everybody except me ! I wonder sometimes if I can be a real Norwegian, those whose reputation is to go out skiing and jogging in a winter landscape in shorts … Perhaps what Anna Morrow Lindbergh wrote might be appropriate : “Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter…

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"The war… any war… is a war against public health" – Interview with Dr Khalid Shibib

“In crises, you see the true nature of human beings” When there is a hot spot, a natural disaster, you can be quite sure that Dr Shibib will be there. Born in the former Palestine in 1947, Dr Shibib became a refugee when he was less than a year old. His parents fled from the war in Palestine to Iraq. Growing up in Baghdad, he was trained as a medical doctor and later became a specialist in neurosurgery During…

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