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...that even when physicians are convicted of crimes and are stripped of their medical licenses in one state, they often continue practicing in other states, sometimes only a few miles over the line from the location where they were caught. New York doctors have moved ten miles to New Jersey, safely beyond the reach of officials familiar with their records; North Carolina doctors have moved a few miles to Virginia. One physician who lost his license in Maryland, and was forbidden to practice in New York and Ohio, collected $172,000 in Medicare payments last year in Virginia, according...
...most Minneapolitans, St. Paul is an inexplicable growth on their eastern flank, their New Jersey, their Pasadena, the place you don't go if you're hip, and those people are heavily into hipness. At Walker Art Center, the custodial staff has to be careful not to leave a pail and a mop unattended during exhibition hours lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write...
...player enlivened the voyage. Passing through New Jersey, the group played Bruce Springsteen. Other selections included Indigo Girls and the Top Gun soundtrack...
...JERSEY: Although the mega-losing New Jersey Nets have long been accused of impersonating a professional basketball team, it turns out basketball wasn't the only thing being faked in the Meadowlands. Nets officials admitted Friday that they had blasted recorded crowd noise through arena speakers to to pump up the volume at home games. "Some of this stuff is embarrassing," coach John Calipari told the New York Daily News. "I just shook my head. I said, "Do we need to do that?' " said Calipari, who learned of the high-decibel hoax early in the season. The interesting thing...
DIED. ROBERT DICKE, 80, early proponent of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe who mounted a persuasive but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to Einstein's general theory of relativity; in Princeton, New Jersey...