point to what are your concerns, what are ways we can fix them and do something legislatively."

3. This incredible moment



Jorge Recinos carries 80-year-old Petrona Lopez to her surgery appointment because she cannot walk. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

Paul was just one member of a team of roughly 70 surgeons, nurses, technicians and volunteers who traveled to Salama -- and it's worth giving them a shout-out.

The trip was primarily organized by the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. The director of its international outreach division, Alan C. Crandall, is an especially skilled surgeon, who spends two months each year on the road with members of his team performing surgeries in third world countries. Paul and Crandall were joined by several others, including DavidChang, a member of the faculty at the University of California San Francisco and past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (which also sent along top officials as volunteers); and Charles C. Barr, of the University of Lousiville, who conducted countless retinal laser treatments.

The Hope Alliance, based in Park City, Utah, brought along the majority of volunteers, who set up camp at another facility and distributed approximately 8,000 pairs of eyeglasses. Volunteers said they simply were seeking a way to participate in a medical mission -- a practice popular among American Mormons, evangelicals, Catholics and countless nonprofit groups or academic organizations.

So what about the photo? Well, it captures one of the countless number of simply human moments witnessed during the week. In the image,