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...front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area, have given birth in ambulances. Others may be giving birth across the border in Mexico or at home, says Dr. Jennifer Ryan, CEO of the Elfrida-based Chiricahua Community Health Centers...
Health-care administrators in Cochise County plan to open a birthing center in Bisbee, which would be run by the federally qualified Chiricahua clinic and would be able to shelter doctors from high malpractice-insurance premiums. If all goes well, the center will open next spring. But for Valdez and many other new mothers, that will be too late. Valdez doesn't know whom to blame--doctors, lawyers or insurance companies. She just knows that come late July, she will have to spend the final, awkward week of her pregnancy waddling around as a houseguest. That's enough to make...
Emerine says that the University has been conscious of the environment while planning new telescope sites. "We thought we were environmentally responsible to not inflict an observatory on an untouched mountain--Chiricahua Peak in Southeastern Arizona. Therefore, Mt. Graham is the choice...
...survey ranking 280 mountains useful for telescope observatories, the virgin-forested Chiricahua Peak was first, Emerine says. Mt. Graham, a mountain whose lower regions were logged for a century, came in second in the study...
...have any money in the bank," explains his wife Nora, who is part Spanish, part Chiricahua Apache. Shecan butcher a bear and cook up a steak in the Franklin stove so tender it softens a person's attitude toward grizzlies. "We don't have any credit. No life insurance," she says with a smile, the earthy enduring smile that heroines in South American novels bequeath to their daughters...