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...ought to scare doctors, administrators, insurance executives and the general public is that there are so few nurses to protect them. Everyone points to money as the problem, but most nurses will tell you that it was a general decline in their perceived value as caregivers that began the descent into the system we have today. If you want to have a physician who can take good care of you, you need nurses who will share that duty and keep that doctor informed. JODY NICHOLS, R.N. San Marino, Calif...
...Thursday, 18-year-old Hans Van Themsche donned a long black leather coat, purchased a hunting rifle, and then, in broad daylight, started stalking identifiable foreigners in Belgium's second city. First, he shot and wounded a woman of Turkish descent who had been sitting on a public bench, reading a book. Then Van Themsche killed a pregnant Malian babysitter and the native Belgian two-year-old for whom she was caring. His hunt for further victims was stopped only when a police officer shot him in the stomach after he refused to drop his weapon...
...such as gender. No matter how hard I try, I cannot naturally become a man, so I cannot join an all-male finals club or fraternity. The same can be said for groups that might include in its constitution a requirement that officers can only be of Asian descent, for example—it excludes individuals on the basis of something they cannot change...
...There is a stereotype about you, that you have a certain affinity, both in friendship and romance, for Asian girls. Do you feel that you’ve gotten any understanding of that here? Or with your fiancée? What is this fascination with women of Asian descent...
...Come for Free,” Skinner is forced to abandon cheeky irreverence (sort of), and adopt the much more serious issues of fame and fortune. Complaints about the lifestyle of the rich and famous is a trail well-trodden in the music industry, and Skinner’s descent down the same path is part bizarre and part amusing—I can’t help shake the feeling that his tongue remains resolutely in cheek with lines like “We’ve got two 50 grand in the budget to go/ Subtract five...