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...place where pharmacists have been playing an important role is in the Indian Health Service, whose clinics are in remote locations and chronically short staffed. Since 1973, the Phoenix Indian Medical Center has given 65 pharmacists special six-month courses in clinical skills, including how to take a medical history and conduct a physical examination. Working under a doctor's supervision, these "pharmacist practitioners" regularly diagnose and treat skin conditions, burns and abrasions, gastrointestinal upsets and upper-respiratory infections. They monitor therapy on patients with hypertension, tuberculosis and diabetes and also provide prenatal care for pregnant women...
...disappearance of formal student input came just before a Faculty committee began a six-month review of the concentration last fall calling for sweeping changes in the concentration...
...their old-fashioned passbooks. In American banks and in savings and loan institutions, an incredible total of more than $341 billion is sitting in accounts that pay a maximum of 5.5% interest. Those funds could currently be earning about 18% in a money-market account, 14.9% in a six-month savings certificate or 13% in a tax-exempt municipal bond fund. If the 5,000 savings banks and S and Ls in the U.S. suddenly had to start paying comparable interest rates on passbook accounts, many of them would go broke. As it is, an estimated...
Government bonds, bills and notes fared no better than private issues. To attract buyers at its regular Monday auction of six-month bills, the Treasury had to boost the interest rate on the bills to a record 15.854%. Six months ago, it had to offer only 13.611% to sell the six-month bills...
...felons and drug addicts need not apply. If the program sometimes succeeds with hard cases where public schools have failed, it is partly because students who apply see the program as a last chance. While some drop out right away, those who stay usually commit themselves to a six-month residential program that is a cross between boot camp and boarding school. Says one South Bronx administrator: "If students went home at 5 p.m. to ghetto conditions, you would defuse 70% of what they learn." Job Corps staff not only provide vocational and remedial training but attempt to nurture cooperation...