Word: southernization
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...Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places." In a study of 581 nurses working in southern Florida, Brower found that most of her subjects had no special training in gerontology. Many admitted that they had come to actively dislike the old, a feeling that grew more intense the more they worked in geriatrics. Those who spent 75% or more of their time caring for old people...
...political junkies will have to adjust their thermostats for 2008. At a meeting July 22, the Democrats are set to revamp their voting calendar, and some big changes are likely. Members of the Democratic committee in charge of the schedule say they will add a southwestern and a southern state to the early caucus and primary schedule. Iowa's caucus will remain first on the campaign schdule, the Democrats say. But it will now be followed by a Southwestern caucus, New Hampshire's primary, and a Southern primary over the next few weeks, before the field is opened...
...Hizballah leader Hassan Nasralllah said that the group did not seek a war in southern Lebanon but sought to swap the captured Israelis for Arab detainees held by Israel. He did not specify, but Nasrallah seemed to be referring to a handful of Lebanese as well as the hundreds of Palestinians whose release is being demanded by Hamas militants holding a captured Israeli soldier in Gaza...
...fact, Hizballah's attack comes at a time when the Iranian-backed group faces intense domestic and international pressure to disband its military wing, which is credited with driving out Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation. Hizballah refuses to disarm, saying that the resistance - as it calls its armed wing - is a vital component of Lebanon's national defense against the threat posed by Israel. Although Hizballah occasionally attacks Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms, it rarely admits to launching operations elsewhere along the border that it is widely suspected of carrying...
...Shebaa Farms in a well planned and executed ambush. In January 2004, Hizballah swapped the remains of the three soldiers who died in the attack for more than more 400 Palestinian and Lebanese detainees. Similar swaps occurred in 1996 and 1998 when Israeli forces were still occupying parts of southern Lebanon...