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Speaking on behalf of an initiative called Deworm the World — inspired by economics research at MIT showing that mass deworming of children in poor regions dramatically improves school performance and cooked up at a previous World Economic Forum event — the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair not only cheerfully admitted to having been dewormed as a child but actually played the worm in a rambunctious game of tag designed to teach kids to take their anti-worm medicine.

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