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...course, even if you manage to convince a doctor to move to the country, you have the challenge of getting erstwhile patients to darken his door, says Professor Janet Hardy Boettcher, a registered nurse and the director of the school of nursing at Radford University in southwestern Virginia. "Rural people believe, for the most part, that you?re well until you can?t move around," she says. "That?s certainly true in this area." That cultural aversion to doctors? offices may also be fueled by the fact that as a rule, country doctors are not as up-to-date...
...gracing the desserts or mariachi bands serenading the diners. Keeping mum about the menu until the last minute, the White House did inform the media early on that Tex Mex would not be served. And while that may been intended to assuage fears that President George W. Bush's southwestern tastes would come to dominate state functions, the truth is that serving fajitas (or perhaps some more esteemed Mexican entr?e) to a visiting Mexican leader would not be beyond the realm of probability in light of recent White House tradition. Because the State Dinner menu, for some bizarre reason...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (8/23/01). Bad News--University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (8/20/01); American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (8/21/01...
...that he never reached Mecca." On the last voyage, by the time a few men from his fleet finally made the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, Zheng He had died. Both his father and grandfather had made the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca overland all the way from southwestern China long before their illustrious offspring ever set sail...
Right now, in the middle of a Joshua-tree forest in southwestern Utah, there's a Folgers coffee can containing a pen, a notebook and a large rubber snake. It's just one of hundreds of prizes in the global scavenger hunt known as geocaching. All you have to do to win it is to make your way to 37.0939[degrees] N by 113.9429[degrees] W and pick...