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...term, locum tenens is also used for temporary health-care jobs. John Huneke, 69, who last year sold the ophthalmology practice he ran for 33 years in Ada, Okla., has done several locum tenens stints through CompHealth. Now he and his wife Frances crisscross the country in a Dodge pickup, towing their one-bedroom, fifth-wheel camper. This summer they camped in the Painted Desert, 70 miles east of the Grand Canyon, while Huneke worked in a government-run Navajo health clinic in Tuba City, Ariz. "It's more challenging," he says, "but really it's more interesting...
...Friday, Nov. 9, the Taliban commanders of Mazar-i-Sharif abandoned the city, handing the Northern Alliance its first victory of the ground war. But there was no room in the Taliban's high-powered pickup trucks for the 900 fighters they had brought across the country from Pakistan. In a pattern that was to be repeated in other besieged cities in the coming days, when Alliance troops entered, they found the streets of Mazar deserted except for pockets of foreign soldiers who had nowhere to run to. Red Cross officials say they picked up 131 bodies around the city...
...Explain how this transpired. They were brought in pickup trucks and nobody searched for guns that might have not been in the open on their body. Then last night one of them pulled out this grenade, detonated it and killed himself and commanders. A British journalist [from ITN] was slightly injured in that explosion as well...
...Finally, he found the main road leading out of downtown Jalalabad to Torkham. Traffic was at a standstill. And then suddenly, a pickup full of militants carrying rocket grenades and AK-47 rifles was just in front of us. The gunmen asked us to stop...
...Tonight, the occasional burst of gunfire still rings out in the city, but order is fast returning. Alliance soldiers patrol the streets and monitor traffic at checkpoints. AK-47s slung over their shoulders and sacks of RPG rockets in the back of their high-powered pickup trucks. But in a country that has been at war for more than two decades, armed fighters are merely part of the scenery...