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Truly filling the nursing gap will require some homegrown solutions. Congress devoted $500,000 last year to a pilot project to encourage returning military medical troops to become nursing educators. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration is developing online degree programs. This month the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said it would spend $40 million to boost nursing faculty at 12 institutions, while the University of California at Davis plans to open a nursing school next year funded by a $100 million gift from local philanthropists...
...bring Thaksin, now in exile but still popular among millions of Thais, back to Bangkok for trial; when to hold elections and restore democracy; and how to keep the economy ticking. But the most intractable problem is the civil war in the south. Since January 2004, when a dormant, homegrown rebel movement ostensibly bent on establishing a separate Islamic state exploded back to life, more than 2,300 people have died, the vast majority civilians. The latest attack took place on Tuesday when two bombs went off in quick succession in Yala town, killing one and injuring at least...
...raising the threat level in response to the possibility of attacks emanating from "al-Qaeda central" doesn't necessarily do much to limit the danger from homegrown imitators - the recent British attacks occurred even while Britain was on heightened standby. The London and Glasgow attempts, like another failed attack on trains in Germany last year, were notable for their comparative lack of sophistication. The suspects in London and Glasgow apparently got the know-how to make their bombs off the Internet, as did the two men who failed to detonate a bomb on a passenger train in Germany last year...
...HOMEGROWN VS. IMPORTED...
After the car-bomb suspects were arrested, the Scottish Daily Record concluded, "It is reassuring that the bombers were not Scots. It would be more depressing if our attackers were homegrown." But getting fixated on national identities is a plan without a purpose. In the U.K., there are 1,985 doctors from Iraq, 184 from Jordan and 27,558 from India. One of the suspects in the car bombings is from Iraq, one is from Jordan, and two are from India. Whether al-Qaeda or other organized groups directed these individuals isn't all important. The vast majority of would...