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3:43 am
Fri August 3, 2012

Nursing Schools Face Faculty Shortage

Credit Elizabeth Lee Cantrell / UVA School of Nursing
Nursing students in a simulation lab at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.

Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 2:43 pm

There have been lots of goodbye parties this year at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. So far, 11 professors have retired. That's one-fourth of the faculty, and Dean Dorrie Fontaine is in no mood to celebrate.

Over the next few years, the Affordable Care Act will probably boost demand for nurses to take care of the newly insured, she says, "and I need faculty to teach the practitioners that are going to take care of these uninsured."

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Planet Money
2:30 am
Fri August 3, 2012

Keeping The Biggest Secret In The U.S. Economy

Credit Bureau of Labor Statistics
In one part of the BLS offices, a supervisor rings this bell to let employees know that it is officially 8:30 AM.

Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 9:04 am

Opinion
11:10 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Grandfathers Go To The Mat For Gymnast Grandson

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Gymnast C.J. Maestas has been tumbling since he was 18 months old. His grandfathers Frank Barela (left) and Frank Maestas have been a lifelong source of support.

Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 9:39 am

As fans around the world are riveted to the 2012 Summer Games in London, one young gymnast already has his sights on 2016.

Albuquerque, N.M., native C.J. Maestas, 20, has been tumbling his entire life. A self-described "hyper" kid who loved to climb on things, C.J. joined his first gymnastics class when he was 18 months old.

"As a little baby, you were always jumping," C.J.'s grandfather Frank Maestas recalls.

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Poetry Games
8:37 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

Against All Odds, You 'Swim Your Own Race'

Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 9:19 am

South African poet Mbali Vilakazi is also a performer and radio producer based in Cape Town. Vilakazi's poem pays tribute to South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, the first female amputee ever to qualify for the Olympic Games.

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Movie Reviews
5:48 pm
Thu August 2, 2012

A Couple Made For Each Other, But Not For Marriage

The easiest way to put divorce onscreen is to slap a couple of clearly mismatched souls up there and proceed to show them bickering over money, property, the kids, the family dog. Celeste and Jesse Forever takes the harder and more honorable way, giving us two people who genuinely care for each other, who are perhaps perfect for each other in all the ways you can list on paper, and who still fall victim to some essential loneliness that seems to be hardwired into their union.

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