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...Middle Ages, the term locum tenens, Latin for "holding the place," was used to describe substitute priests. Though still a church term, locum tenens is also used for temporary health-care jobs. John Huneke, 69, who last year sold the ophthalmology practice he ran for 33 years in Ada, Okla., has done several locum tenens stints through CompHealth. Now he and his wife Frances crisscross the country in a Dodge pickup, towing their one-bedroom, fifth-wheel camper. This summer they camped in the Painted Desert, 70 miles east of the Grand Canyon, while Huneke worked in a government...
...what might feel normal. In New York, the High School for Leadership & Public Service, a magnet school two blocks from the World Trade Center, was forced to evacuate and wedge itself into cramped quarters at another school, three miles away. The teachers lacked books, even chalk. But principal Ada Dolch is determined to get back to basics or "kids will discuss this for the rest of their lives instead of doing math." That doesn't mean the tragedy has not become a learning opportunity. A health class is examining what kids inhaled in the explosion. In English class, they...
...Ada J. Maxwell, a senior intern at the Harvard Foundation, explained that the Foundation office oversees 40 to 50 student groups, involving “hundreds of students...
...years of age, she applied. Smith admitted her to its elite Ada Comstock Scholars Program, an academic program for women of what the school gently refers to as “nontraditional age.” A sociology major, Boe says she’s considering law school and working in immigration or labor law. (Harvard Law admissions officers, take note...
...could look at times like Mephistopheles in a Brechtian update of Faust. Like Wright, he also sustained a 19th century romantic notion of himself as an artist, a man answerable only to his own instincts. (After just a few years of marriage in the 1920s, his hapless wife Ada decided to stop resisting his regular infidelities and move out.) Mies insisted that the architect must surrender his urge to add personal "touches," but he broke his rule on some of his greatest buildings. The slender steel mullions that run up the walls of the Seagram Building and provide its rhapsodic...