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2004

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Health Care In Canada: Provinces Versus The Federal Government, Vivian C. Mcalister Jul 2004

Health Care In Canada: Provinces Versus The Federal Government, Vivian C. Mcalister

Vivian C. McAlister

Transcript: Listen to today's Commentary Introduction: Who speaks best for health care: Paul Martin or the provincial premiers? Vivian McAlister is a transplant surgeon and a professor of surgery in London, Ontario. On Commentary, he says move over Ottawa..the provinces should take the lead in improving medicare. Vivian McAlister: During last month's election campaign Paul Martin set himself up as the saviour of medicare. He was reinforcing an old theme: that Ottawa must keep a close eye on the provinces lest they experiment - looking for different ways to provide health care. The prime minister conveniently ignored the fact that …

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Encouraging Liberal Arts Undergraduates To Become Librarians: A Mellon Funded Project, Jennifer Masunaga, Emily Berman, Emily Bergman, Marla Peppers Mar 2004

Encouraging Liberal Arts Undergraduates To Become Librarians: A Mellon Funded Project, Jennifer Masunaga, Emily Berman, Emily Bergman, Marla Peppers

Jennifer Masunaga

From 2003 through 2009, Occidental College participated with Oberlin, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Atlanta University Center, Johnson C. Smith, and St. Andrews College to encourage liberal arts college undergraduates, particularly underrepresented minorities, to become librarians. The program included a presentation to all students in the fall semester about an important issue concerning libraries, part-time spring internships, full-time summer internships an introduction to librarianship curriculum, a summer leadership institute, a full-time post-baccalaureate fellowship, and library school scholarships. Occidental's experience was quite successful at mentoring future librarians, and eight graduates have become librarians from the 4 1/2-year program. Emily Bergman was Interim College Librarian …

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Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity And Actions For A Better Future, Shawna Hanel Jan 2004

Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity And Actions For A Better Future, Shawna Hanel

Shawna Hanel

Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.

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Indeterminate And Inhuman: Georgette Leblanc In L'Inhumaine (1924), Maureen Shanahan Dec 2003

Indeterminate And Inhuman: Georgette Leblanc In L'Inhumaine (1924), Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

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Martí, Monologue, And The Metaphorical Dawn In Raúl De Cárdenas's, Gail Bulman Dec 2003

Martí, Monologue, And The Metaphorical Dawn In Raúl De Cárdenas's, Gail Bulman

Gail A. Bulman

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Almost Alternating Harmonic Series, Ramin Naimi, Curtis Fesit Dec 2003

Almost Alternating Harmonic Series, Ramin Naimi, Curtis Fesit

Ramin Naimi

No abstract provided.

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