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Numbers: Billions, trillions, ga-zillions. When's a number too big, too little, appropriate, effective? I mean, who gets numbers?
It's like gaggles of 3rd graders accelerating every conversation with their own numerical system:
"My dad has a million!"
"My mom saw a ka-zillion in New Jersey!"
"Well, I'm gonna have a ka billion ga zillion when I grow up!"
What would the grown up version be?
"Before you know it, she'll want a googol (10 followed by 100 zeros) of 'em!"
Even smart adults struggle with really big numbers. Particularly as
they relate to money, people and sex. Trillions of dollars, billions of
people, oh yeah, and sex - the multiplier.
Read more of Amy's third blog entry for The Huffington Post!
Jeffrey Locke recently joined PAI as a Legislative Policy Associate, where he will help educate policymakers and their staff about the importance of international family planning and reproductive health programs. In this blog, he talks about why, after two years in Togo, he decided to come to Washington to work on family planning issues.
Our car has absolutely no business driving this rocky (small boulders, really) dirt/mud road—loaded down with four passengers, no less. A sagging bridge up ahead taunts us to attempt the crossing. But we make it across in order to reach the Palabana district rural health center, surrounded by fields of corn and pumpkins, with a few tethered goats thrown in for good measure. A mere 45 kilometers from downtown Lusaka, we could be in far off Western Province in this beautiful rural landscape.
Ms. Florah Kyara, a nurse in the RH unit, opened a cabinet and showed us the shelf containing all of the contraceptive supplies in stock,

