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...overworked and usually underpaid, the nurse has long been the doctor's reliable helpmate. Now more and more nurses, not content to be second-class citizens in the medical establishment, are hanging out their own shingles. They are seeing patients independently of doctors and opening up clinics. A San Rafael, Calif., newsletter, Nurse Entrepreneurs Exchange, estimates that in the past few years more than 10,000 nurses have gone into business for themselves. "Nurses can do more than change the bed and throw out the bedpan," says Joanne Gersten, who runs Erie Family Health Center, a 14-nurse clinic...
...adventure at the time," says Lucas. "We really took a plunge into the unknown." After the astounding success of Star Wars, his special-effects group, dubbed Industrial Light & Magic, relocated in San Rafael, Calif., just north of San Francisco, and became a permanent operation. ILM devised the special effects not just for Lucas' three Star Wars epics, but for such Steven Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians...
...Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier, who claimed 45.7% of the count...
With that, Arslanian pronounced Jorge Rafael Videla, 60, President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, and his navy commander, Admiral Emilio Massera, 60, guilty of homicide, illegal detention and other human rights violations. The two were stripped of their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...