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...patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 22, 2006 | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...million fund to provide low-interest loans and grants to farmers hoping to go into agritainment. The state also launched a guide for tourists at blueribbonpassport.com In North Carolina this past summer, with the help of the state agritourism office, Pam Griffin turned a former tobacco field in Fuquay-Varina, 15 miles southwest of Raleigh, into a corn maze shaped like NASCAR driver Scott Riggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's Agritainment! | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...Dangerous Offenders Task Force in Wake County, North Carolina, he's been around his share. Even so, this tape makes him cringe. It's a 911 call made to police the night of July 27. A young woman is phoning for help from her apartment in Fuquay-Varina, about 15 miles from Raleigh. Just before the tape goes dead -- police believe the phone was ripped from the wall -- she can be heard screaming, "Don't harm my baby!" Jackson knows what happened next. Over the next several minutes she was beaten bloody with a mop handle and raped. The attacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: When Kids Go Bad | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...could prove to be the best thing to hit shopping since the "nine items or less" line. A supermarket in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, has acceded to customer demands that patrons shouldn't have to see the lurid covers of the Star and the National Enquirer if they don't want to. So it has banned those and other tabloids from one of its cashier lines (a sign reads TABLOID-FREE CHECKOUT LANE). If the innovation is a success, Harris Teeter, the chain that owns the supermarket, may establish tab-free zones in its 132 other stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elvis Has Left The Supermarket | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...candy bars and close to 280 cases of soda (no beer); the women figured on a $2,000 profit for the church. Outside Iowa Falls (pop. 6,454), Robert Eddy and pals set up a keg of suds in his van with a sign proclaiming FREE BEER. At Varina (pop. 140), where the Lions Club put on a spread (ham sandwiches, apples, homemade cookies, hot dogs) outside the elementary school, members thoughtfully spiked rolls of toilet paper on fence posts bordering the usefully protective 8-ft.-tall rows of corn. Night after night from the instant campgrounds across Iowa arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Iowa Bikeathon | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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