Best Cancer Reporter award

Of all the things I thought I would be one day, Best Cancer Reporter certainly wasn't one of them. Hey, cancer will do weird things to you.

I was honored to receive the Best Cancer Reporter Merit Award (award written by a patient) for the Op-Ed piece on colon cancer, published by The Prague Post. It was presented to me by the European School of Oncology in October 2007 in Rome.

Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, China 2005

Outside a Market, Shanghai

Knock-off goods featured prominently in this major open-air market in Shanghai, China, May 2005, making a joke of the "Maintain Intellectual Property" banners displayed everywhere.

Mostar, Bosnia--Part 2

A scene of a bombed-out building, Mostar, Bosnia

Mostar, Bosnia

The restored "Old Bridge" in Mostar, Bosnia, originally built in 1566. A UNESCO site.

Szechuan Hotpot

Chengdu, China (Szechuan province).

Highlights from Today's Sports

100m race with a 50kg sack of wheat. Sunday, 3 September, Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic.

My Travel Blogging on gadling.com

Hey! Starting today, check out my regular blogs on gadling.com:
Hiking and seeing elk at the seashore north of San Francisco:
http://www.gadling.com/2006/08/30/sex-and-violence-elk-style/

Harvard School of Public Health Picks Up My Pervitin Story

The Harvard School of Public Health's website World Health News (http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/) blogged my Pervitin story under the caption "Czech Republic: Health Authorities Struggle To Reign in Meth" on their March 23, 2006, posting.

On Global Trends blog

Sydney's Mike Hitchen, in his "i On Global Trends" blog, picked up my maternity article on January 14, under the caption "Human Resources: Czech companies faced with baby boom."