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What is the solution? Trying to attract young nurses by offering higher starting salaries is a first step. But the cost of constantly having to train new nurses drains the resources of virtually every major medical center. The money might be better spent on creating incentives for experienced nurses to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crisis In Nursing: Fed Up, Fearful And Frazzled | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Poker players rejoice when they detect a fish -- a cheerful, tireless, well- funded loser -- radiating stupidity from across the green felt. Poker, of course, is a low pastime, whereas investment counseling, stockbroking and commodities trading are honorable professions. Still, suggests amateur Investor John Rothchild in this wry and funny confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fish Fry A FOOL AND HIS MONEY: THE ODYSSEY OF AN AVERAGE INVESTOR | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

This newly affluent class is spearheading a peaceful but dramatic revolution in which blacks, who outnumber whites nearly 5 to 1 in South Africa, are starting to flex their economic muscle as earners and consumers. Blacks will pay an estimated total of $350 million in taxes this year, up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The New Black Middle Class | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

It is a fact in many professions that to a few of the charlatans some success will come. It is a sad fact that to some of these charlatans a public forum will be provided in which they can spread their half-baked ideas. I am sure that Cliff Stevenson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer to Him | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

Some of these people would have fallen for a shaman, any fool who claimed, say, he could bend spoons with his mind. But Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Spiritual Leader's Farewell | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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