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Donor Attention-Deficit Disorder? Phony Press Release Is Joke, Sort Of (New York Times)

April 22, 2008

The New York Times features Ruth Levine's April fools blog Road to Health: Paved With Good Inventions on donors suffering from Attention-Deficit Disorder.

From the article:

Since it was issued on April 1 by the Center for Global Development, an antipoverty study group, a mock press release titled 'Road to Health: Paved With Good Inventions' has been circulating among global health experts. Though it drones on in admin-speak, it elicits rueful laughter.

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