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Robert Gumbiner dies at 85; HMO pioneer founded Museum of Latin American Art
Robert Gumbiner, a physician and HMO pioneer who built the managed-care giant FHP and then used his fortune to found the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, has died. He was 85. Gumbiner died of prostate cancer Tuesday at his Long Beach home,...Tags: Death, Hospitals and Clinics, Utah, Book, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California)
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Dancing cheek to cheek in Yap
YOUR SCENE editor's choice YOUR SCENE editor's choice There are moments in nature that are so fleeting that few are privileged to witness them. Jeff Smith of San Pedro had one such sighting in January when he watched the mating dance of mandarin...Tags: Micronesia
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One Door Opens, Another Closes
Times Staff WriterTens of thousands of children travel alone from Central America and Mexico each year, many of them seeking the mothers who went to the U.S. before them. The epic journey many of these children make is part of a vast migration of women and children who are...Tags: Georgia, Crimes, Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Los Angeles Times, Gaming
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An island couple finds a way home
The place Happy and Mineko Chochol call home isn't just a third of the world away, it is another world. On the island of Murilo, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Chochols live with their six children in a one-room, cinderblock house with a...Tags: Death, Long Term Care, Nursing, Employees, Career and Workplace
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An American tragedy contract did not cover
It was a chilly, dreary Friday in mid-February in rural Wisconsin, but they came anyway, many with canes and walkers. Several propelled themselves in wheelchairs to places in front of the first pew. The crowd of 75, mostly nursing home residents and...Tags: Georgia, Death, American Red Cross, Career and Workplace, Arts
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Money, migration and U.S. missiles
A detailed proposal by the U.S. Department of Labor to regulate the traffic in indentured workers from Micronesia and the Marshall Islands was shunted aside in recent talks to extend the Compact of Free Association, after the chief U.S. negotiator ignored...Tags: Georgia, Long Term Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Employment, Nursing
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Chasing Down The Source
Courant Staff WriterA global epidemic of diabetes might be averted if we could rid ourselves of a passion for Twinkies and television remotes. Fat chance, say scientists searching for a cure for the complex and misunderstood disease. "Diet is always the first therapy...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Famines, Genetics, Plastic Surgeons, Disasters and Accidents
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Trapped in servitude far from their homes
After journeying across an ocean and a continent - from the tiny Pacific isle of Chuuk to rural Ashburn, Ga. - Gloria Likiche was surprised to find herself working the graveyard shift at a nursing home, emptying bedpans for $5.50 an hour and eating so...Tags: Crimes, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at School, Nursing, Employment
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