From Arusha

I stepped off the plane at night. The first thing to hit me was the smell of burning wood. It reminded me of Amy Smith's talk at TED 06 in Monterey.

Amy Smith talks about the number one cause of child mortality.

When I woke up this morning, I looked out my hotel room window to be greeted enormous, human-sized birds. Storks, I was told. They have 12 foot wingspans and could very much pick up and deliver toddlers, if they cared to. It's cool here -- sort of like San Francisco temperatures -- and it's still very much rainy season.