The Roads Traveled Our Year Journey
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We will be thinking dreaming and breathing statistics in this volume To ensure we retain a balanced perspective on life I refer you to the famous American Robert Frost s well known poem The Road Not Taken see end of this article With apologies to Robert Frost rather than focusing on roads not taken we shall brie y consider instead roads we have taken or The Roads Traveled over the year journey of our Journal and our Society In William Cochran gave an important Presidential Address under the title The Trial of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine in the United States My reading of Cochran s address is that it was surely a compelling presentation dealing as it did with a disease that was seemingly running rampant and which almost surely was capturing everyone s attention As Cochran stated
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