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...expand these programs if you don't have the trained educators," says Stephen Collier, director of the Health Professions Education and Workforce Development program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Nursing schools and, increasingly, training programs for other health professions complain that they cannot hire enough instructors to add new students. (Licensing requirements mandate low student-to-teacher ratios.) Salaries for educators are well below those for clinical practice, and budget cuts at state colleges and universities have prevented them from offering more. "If we don't have educators, we won't have the nurses," says Amanda Engler, spokeswoman...
...President Bill Clinton ... you can't blame the economy's slip on a President. If anyone is to blame it would have to be the terrorists, the rip-off artists in huge companies (i.e. Enron, Tyco, Martha Stewart) ... and leftist reporters and media such as Time Magazine. Wade Spruill Birmingham...
Larry Joe Sims shot and killed Virgil Ware, 13, in 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. [TIME IN DEPTH, Sept. 22]. If Sims really wishes to make amends to Ware's family, he could pay for a proper burial for the child. Perhaps it could be in the same cemetery where the four little black girls who died in the Baptist-church bombing are buried. Sims could erect an appropriate memorial at the burial site to replace the unmarked grave in which Ware now lies. Alternatively, a memorial fund for Virgil Ware could be established. I would be happy to make...
...senior year state championship game, played at storied Legion Field in Birmingham, was the longest game in Alabama high school football history with five overtimes and one of McBurney’s “worst memories...
...VIRGIL: Forty years ago this week Virgil Ware, 13, became the sixth black person killed one day in Birmingham, Ala., shot by a 16-year-old white boy. Time revisits his life and his killer and examines the ongoing role of his story and those like it in the city once called Bombingham...