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...kind of work load is typical in Illinois, where the state school-nursing association lobbied unsuccessfully for tobacco-settlement money to go toward hiring nurses. In such cases schools rely on lunchroom supervisors and secretarial staff for basic first aid and call 911 for anything more complicated, says Phyllis Pelt, director of the school-nurse certification program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Something as simple as a ring being stuck on a child's finger and it getting swollen--schools will call 911 for that if the nurse is out of the building," says Pelt...
...Pelt has introduced new topics into her curriculum, such as how to give presentations and interpret school demographic data. "Today school nurses need to be marketers in some ways," Pelt says. Nurses must know how to communicate with administrators on the need to hire a health aide, for example, or how to lobby a principal to fix water fountains so kids can get a drink from somewhere besides the soda machine...
...lullabies her with favorite tunes ("She likes the theme to Blazing Saddles"). George's uncle Damascus (Eddie Rouse) is a violent man whose fear of dogs impels him to kill George's treasured stray. From guilt and love, he fashions a cap out of the dead mutt's pelt and gives it to the boy to protect his head. It's the thought that counts...
While the head that wears the crown may lie uneasy, the head that wears the pelt risks public condemnation. Last week SOPHIE RHYS-JONES, who married Britain's Prince Edward only last summer, saw her honeymoon with the British people come to an abrupt halt when she was photographed in a fox-fur hat during a business trip to St. Moritz. Rhys-Jones claims the unanticipated Swiss chill prompted her spontaneous purchase. But at a time when the British government is embroiled in a debate over banning fox hunts, the move did not sit well. One newspaper suggested...
...series of break-ins was reported last week at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, resulting in the theft of several Lampoon artifacts including brass dishes, a wolf pelt, a bottle of 1990 Chenin Anjou and an autographed copy of The Poetry of Leonard Nimoy...