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Getting doctors to practice what they preach
It's ironic that the year we, both new medical students, moved across the street from the nation's best hospital and began learning how to manage the health of others is the same year we stopped taking care of our own. It was a year of ups and downs....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Drugs and Medicines, Nobel Prize Awards
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Who the hell is that? Greene Vardiman Black
Lincoln ParkLast time, we focused on the trail-blazing explorer René-Robert Cavelier de la Salle, and this time we will be looking at a dentist. That's right, a dentist.... -
Haiti: Resources and how to help
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From Staff and Wire reports.indentMe { padding-left:20px; } In the wake of the utter devastation inflicted by the earthquake in Haiti, the efforts and contributions of people everywhere are crucial. If you're looking for ways to help, try these organizations: The U.S. State...Tags: Washington, DC, Wyclef Jean, Disasters and Accidents, Hands, Dallas
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Make calories count healthy challenge begins in S.D.
Want to improve the food choices you make? The Make Calories Count Healthy Challenge helps you do that. Jan. 15-Feb. 15 and is open to all South Dakotans. Participants can earn one point per day for each of the behavior on the list of "100 Ways to...Tags: Physical Conditions, Weight Loss, Potassium (dietary supplement), Diets and Dieting, Human Interest
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Rick Scott’s really Albert Schweitzer
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelRepublican House Speaker-designate Dean Cannon's embrace yesterday of Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott qualifies as Exhibit A for why voters don't trust politicians. During the primary, Cannon helped&#... -
Thanking, Giving and Forgiving in the Time of Scarcity
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelCall me cynical but one of my favorite books last year was a sobering tome by Barbara Ehrenreich called, Bright-Sided, How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Our nation's obsession with positive thinking practically... -
Hoag nurse's nonprofit helps AIDS-stricken children
NEWPORT BEACH — For Joanne Baker's 50th birthday, she asked for $500,000.
It wasn't for her, but for donations to children in South Africa affected by AIDS.
What the Hoag Hospital OR charge nurse got in 2001 was $35,000, but that was more than...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Auction Service, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Africa
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Peace: Pursuit of the persistently elusive
The Swampby Mark Silva On his way to Oslo tonight to collect the Nobel Prize for Peace, President Barack Obama certainly has considered these words as he prepares to deliver his own: "We must ever bear in mind that the great......Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Science and Technology, Theodore Roosevelt, Mikhail S Gorbachev, Elie Wiesel
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Community & Clubs: Pastor Short retires
On July 24, my wife, Barbara, and I had the honor to attend the retirement dinner for Dennis Short, the pastor at Harbor Christian Church in Newport Beach for the past 15 years, who was retiring from the active Disciples of Christ of ministry after 41...Tags: Family, Bars and Clubs, Foods and Beverages, University of California, Irvine, Dining and Drinking
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Part III facts
Facts about children who are orphaned by AIDS. 1) In 2005, nearly 800,000 children were orphaned by AIDS in the Caribbean and Latin America. By 2015, that number is expected to grow to 1.4 million. -- Regional HIV/STI Plan for the Health Sector 2006-...Tags: Family, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Organizations, Government
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Abortion isn't a religious issue
What makes opposition to abortion the issue it is for each of the GOP presidential candidates is the fact that it is the ultimate "wedge issue" -- it is nonnegotiable. The right-to-life people hold that it is as strong a point of religion as any can be....Tags: Republican Party, Abortion, Animation (genre), Laws, Religious Texts
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American military cemeteries in Europe honor fallen heroes in both world wars
On Veterans Day, Americans are asked to do something for the country besides voting and paying taxes: We are enjoined to think of those who fought in faraway places -- the Philippines, North Africa, Europe, Vietnam and Iraq. Most of them came home,...Tags: Defense, Tennessee, Travel, Gary Cooper, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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