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What makes an IPA different from a regular managed-care company is that the doctors who are giving the care are also calling the financial shots. PrimaHealth is owned and operated by doctors from Duke and the surrounding area. It has contracts with insurance companies to provide the doctors' services under those plans. Once it has the contract, PrimaHealth doctors, not the insurance company, make the decisions about how patients will be cared...
...linguistics graduate students gather in the departmental library for one of the two graduate seminars in which Bergvall is currently enrolled--phonetics. The course is designed to give the department's grad students an ear for using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system including English and Greek symbols which can represent any of the approximately 100 sounds in human speech...
Every week, the students hear a foreign language, usually on tape and try to render its nuances in IPA. The featured language this week is Bergvall's specialty of Kikuyu, spoken by a native Kikuyu...
...fencing at IPA...
Representatives at Saturday's gathering in Phillips Brooks House were David M. Heer '50 and C. William Chastain, III '51 of the Liberal Union, Lawrence B. Holland and John O. McCormick, both teaching follows representing the Teachers' Union, Roy F. Gootenberg '49 IPA, of the AVC, Irwin Gostin 21, of the Lawyers' Guild, and Max Bluestone 20 of the YPII...