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Friday, July 11, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Nursing still a rewarding career
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The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) has raised the concern that
our country may be producing more nurses than can be employed
locally and abroad. Its president, Dr. Leah Samaco-Paquiz, said that
because of this trend, nursing has ceased to be a lucrative
profession. The notion that being a nurse is a “passport to
greener pastures” abroad is, according to her, a serious mistake.
In effect, the PNA wants to restrain the growth
of the ever-increasing enrolment in nursing schools since the demand
for foreign nurses in the US , the United Kingdom and other
countries has declined in the past two years.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG
DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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‘Goldilocks era’
ends
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As this was being written world crude prices were reported to have
tumbled by six US dollars a barrel. In the local market commercial
rice prices have also dropped.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Funny face
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There are various benefits to being poor and happy. Not in monetary
terms, or in the form of material possessions. The benefits are more
meaningful and the best part is that many rich people don’t even
know what they’re missing.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Echoes of the Babst
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Arlene Babst Vokey is a name from the recent past to many who
remember her as one of the courageous women columnists at the Manila
Bulletin in the Martial Law period.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Thank God for the oil
crisis
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One of the things the sage and saint, Josemaria Escriva, taught is
for us to thank God for humiliations, sufferings and whatever gives
us pain and discomfort. All of these bad things, if we had our minds
on the final goal, would improve our character and lead us to God.
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Needed: A new
approach to counterinsurgency
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The series of crises we are weathering now makes us more
apprehensive about the state of justice and human rights in our
country. Already, some 900 persons have been confirmed victims of
extrajudicial killings, and almost 200 have gone missing since
January 2001.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine Louise Viernes
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Watch my CINESISM
grow
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I go to the cinemas to be whisked away from turgid truths of
everyday life. Prices soar, struggles abound and crimes
prevail—enough reasons to make my Cynicism toward our country grow
as fat as politicians’ pockets.
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