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Sánchez: Tourism and human rights
RONALD Rathbun’s response to two of Sun.Star Bacolod columns why Bacolod is not getting the tourists sounded like human rights issues on discrimination, social exclusion, and dehumanization. Rathbun does not count himself as a human rights activist. A retired pharmacist, he lives with his Fil-Am wife in Bacolod half the year round.
www.sunstar.com.ph
Two dozen legislators turn down pay for extra days
Twenty-four legislators, including two from Topeka, told Legislative Administrative Services they will waive their salary, their daily expense accounts or both as the Legislature headed into overtime this week.
cjonline.com
Undergraduate Focus: In your hands
Medical sciences undergo constant development as new diseases and problems emerge on a daily basis. Heavy investment is put in this field as it is a matter of human well-being.
www.nst.com.my
Report: Petroleum engineering top job in Oklahoma
Due to increased hiring in the state's energy sector, petroleum engineers rank as Oklahoma's best job. Not only are jobs plentiful, but working conditions are ideal and the pay is great, according to a 2012 report from CareerCast.com.
www.tulsaworld.com
Nigeria: Health Workers Begin Strike Nationwide
[Vanguard] Abuja - Health workers and other professionals in the health sector, under the auspices of Joint Heath Sector Unions, JOHESU, yesterday declared an indefinite nationwide strike after their meeting with the Federal Government ended in a deadlock in Abuja.
allafrica.com
Cardinal Health Set for DEA Showdown Over Pain Pill Sales
The day after U.S. drug agents showed up at Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH) ’s distribution center in central Florida, probing oxycodone sales, the company’s compliance chief sent a handwritten note to “Michele” -- Michele Leonhart the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
www.bloomberg.com
Dawson: Is WITN’s Heather King joining The Free Press?
Local morning show host and “Ink Master” finalist Heather King may be coming to work for The Free Press. I first met Heather King when I filled in for Free Press Managing Editor Bryan Hanks as a judge for a cooking contest at Vernon Park Mall in...
www.kinston.com
Vista gives Waukegan High students a look at medical fields
WAUKEGAN — About a dozen students from Waukegan High School’s AVID program watched patients’ heartbeats on monitors, saw an X-ray of a patient with screws in their stomach, a child with a safety pin in its throat, and cancerous breast tissue from a mastectomy at Vista Medical Center East. Nothing phased the students because they had all expressed an interest in the health-care industry through ...
newssun.suntimes.com
GLANCE BACK
On Sunday, May 3, Ruth Urben will be presented in a pianoforte recital at the Methodist Church. She will be assisted by Ruth Hauschildt, Dorothy Balliet and Frederick Urben.
www.galtheraldonline.com
INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Interview: Van Alexander (Part 1)
Today is Van Alexander's birthday (Happy Birthday Van!). He's 97 years old. Van is probably best known for arranging Ella Fitzgerald's career-launching hit A-Tisket, A-Tasket, which she recorded with Chick Webb's band in 1938a€'on this very day, in fact, 74 years ago. Van wrote the words, including her interchange with the band, and Ella tweaked them in places to make it hip. Van also is ...
www.allaboutjazz.com
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