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  • Nurse Takes Aid to Needy of the World

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    Muriel Gordon looked at the supplies stacked high on her driveway yesterday, then at the interior of the 18-wheeler that was fast filling up. "We're praying that it all goes in," she said. It's all going to the poverty-stricken villages of Haiti. ...

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  • Former Nurse Explains Powers of Being Positive

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    JANESVILLE — Liz Jazwiec is a tough, no-nonsense survivor of an emergency room in one of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods. She's also a hoot. Jazwiec had 1,400 members of the Janesville School District's staff laughing almost nonstop for an hour T...

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  • Nursing's 'Always Needed,' and Job Numbers Prove It

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    Helen Wells wrote a series of books popular in the 1950s, '60s and '70s that encouraged many to pursue nursing as a profession. The series featured Cherry Ames, a nurse whose escapades were chronicled in titles such as "Jungle Nurse," "Flight Nurs...

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