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SA leads innovative nursing education
From South Africa’s state-of-the art virtual learning facility for nurses in Bloemfontein, to innovative teaching practices at the Western Cape to cope with doubled intake numbers, higher nursing education in South Africa is set to be dramatically transformed as the new University-based Nursing Education SA…
Author: UNEDSA
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Lobbyists Ramp Up Efforts On Health Care
Listen at the NPR website RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And long before President Obama sent out the invitations for yesterday’s meeting on health care, major players were already lobbying on the issue. Now, those lobby campaigns are about to arrive in America’s homes. NPR’s Peter Overby…
Author: National Public Radio (NPR)
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The Age We Live In
Original Source Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. CLAIRE O’CONNELL reports on the rationale behind a new study on ageing in the Republic which has just been launched WHAT IS it really like to grow old in Ireland? A major new study, which launched…
Author: The Irish Times
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Atlantic’s Work with Refugees in the Limpopo Province
Gara LaMarche I recently travelled to Limpopo, a South African province on the border of Zimbabwe that is experiencing an influx of Zimbabweans who are escaping from that very troubled country, where human rights are disregarded, disease is running rampant, and the economy long…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY – The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
Author: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
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It is a duty of yours, mine and the state's to end all prejudice
Treatment Action Campaign, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project are Atlantic grantees. She loved soccer and represented South Africa in our women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana. On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane was raped, stabbed 25 times, robbed and murdered because…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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The Harlem Miracle
Original Source By DAVID BROOKSOp-Ed Columnist The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious…
Author: The New York Times
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Bill would hurt Liberty City kids
Last year was a year of change and Liberty City, for once, was ahead of the curve. In July 2008, Gov. Crist signed the Florida Children’s Zone into law in Liberty City. Modeled after the innovative Harlem Children’s Zone, the Magic City Youth Zone seeks to…
Author: The Miami Herald
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal
Atlantic Foundation Deputy Chair Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot was a guest on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal to discuss her book, The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50. The show aired on PBS on Friday, 8 May, 2009. You can access the…
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Maine and N.H. Move to Expand Gay Rights
Original Source By Keith B. RichburgWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, May 7, 2009 NEW YORK, May 6 — Gay rights advocates celebrated swift and unexpected twin victories in New England on Wednesday when Maine became the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage and New Hampshire’s legislature…
Author: The Washington Post
