Word: dominican
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Harvard students and faculty mingled with educators and dignitaries from the Dominican Republican yesterday at a reception at Winthrop House last night...
When it comes to teaching medical techniques, of course, some of the instruction has to be hands-on, and that is where people like Doll come in. A longtime nurse practitioner from Garden City, Doll also happens to be a Dominican sister who lives in a modest home with two other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat...
...Garden City--is one of the shrewdest applications of telecommunications technology that can be found anywhere in medicine today. In 1995 Kansas extended its network of high-speed telephone lines to reach Garden City specifically so that St. Catherine Hospital, a local 132-bed facility owned by the Dominican Sisters, could set up a compressed-video classroom and become part of the statewide nurse-practitioner program. "It breaks the isolation," says Doll, who sits in on her students' classes at the hospital. "It keeps us abreast of all the latest things...
...dismissed speculation the crash had anything to do with the fact that the "ancient" plane (they stopped making the DC-8 15 years ago) full of blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic had been scheduled to take off the previous night. Hannifin pointed out cargo operations such as Fine Air customarily operate "on demand," not sticking to any working schedule...
...Fine Air Vice President Nancy Adels said the plane, filled with blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic, was the victim of a "routine delay" while awaiting its cargo. "It happens all the time," she said. Meanwhile Fine Air also faces a stock problem - they went public only yesterday, and shares plummeted on the news of the crash...