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...fall against a Muslim Army chaplain and two base interpreters. But the notion that U.S. personnel were working for the enemy took a knock last week when the cleric, Captain James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about Yee's loyalty, says a military official, "he wouldn't be free." At the same time...
Joseph Williams, a third-grader from Wellington, Colo., who loved fishing and bow hunting, went to school healthy on Friday, Nov. 21. Three days later, the 8-year-old son of Scott and Carrieann Williams died of respiratory failure at Poudre Valley Hospital in nearby Fort Collins. The cause of his sudden death: infection by the Type A strain of the influenza virus. Joseph is one of four Colorado children who have died in a flu outbreak that has hit the nation's Western states unusually hard and unusually early--raising concerns among some health officials that this flu season...
...Right now, only customers in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas can switch. If you?re town is smaller than Fort Wayne, IN, you must wait until May. Make sure you?re free of your carrier?s contract. If you?ve modified a plan or purchased a phone during the last 12 months, you?re probably under contract. Breaking it, even a month from its end, could cost you $150. Call your current provider to find out; don?t expect your prospective carrier to know - or care - about your contract...
Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
Until the faculty shortage eases, hospitals are finding creative ways to fill the gaps in nurses and technicians. JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, Texas, helped three local schools add 60 spots to their nursing programs by lending its own nurses, on hospital pay, as instructors. Pasco Hernando Community College found that local hospitals were so desperate for nurses that they were willing not only to lend clinical instructors but also to pay tuition and expenses for students who would make a two-year commitment to work as nurses when they graduate...