The administration is taking a different strategy because it got a lot of flak last year for trying to decimate an existing program that's successful and has a lot of support.

The upshot is that US AID is making plans to eliminate about 17 countries out of 32 for the food aid programs.

To fund the program adequately, $2 billion is needed, so a targeted program for vulnerable populations will continue, even while emergency needs continue to require about $1.5 billion each year.

They were trying to get at the root causes of poverty, and the root causes were, as we felt it to be, lack of educational opportunity and lack of job training. All of this was not writing checks to poor people, it was offering them the skills and education.

I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I may have to miss days. I know that's not good, but I may have to.

As we move into the realm of electronic medical records, we're trying to look at the way we do work, and determine how we can create good workflows and a good setting for the patient in an electronic environment.