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Between far-flung islands in Southeast Asia, Sarah Baxter goes underwater with some unusual creatures
22 February 2021 • 9:18am Sometimes they floated right towards my face; at other times I followed them, hypnotised by their gentle, pulsing ballet
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The tiny village of Mbuang Mbuang, on Indonesia’s middle-of-nowhere Banggai archipelago, had over-glamorous pretensions: its name was declared in large, white letters, Hollywood-style, on the hill just above.
To be fair, its beach was A-list – a blinding dazzle of bright-white sand – and its stilted houses paddled in perfect-blue seas. However, the village itself was heat-drowsy; it seemed most of its residents were sitting beneath a rose apple tree, doing nothing much at all. Few outsiders had been here since my vessel, the Ombak Putih, last sailed by; the place felt within a fathom of falling completely off the map. No, Mbuang Mbuang’s greatest drama was below the surface.
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Originally published on December 21, 2020 4:02 pm
At a time when the pandemic has exposed a growing shortage of nurses, it should have been good news that there were more than 1,200 applicants to enter the associate degree program in nursing at Long Beach City College.
But the California community college took only 32 of them.
North of here, California State University, East Bay isn t enrolling any nursing students at all until at least next fall.
Higher education was struggling to keep up with the skyrocketing demand for nurses even before the COVID-19 crisis. Now it s falling further behind.
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Student nurse Gail Powers outside the College Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif. James Bernal/The Hechinger Report
At a time when the pandemic has exposed a growing shortage of nurses, it should have been good news that there were more than 1,200 applicants to enter the associate degree program in nursing at Long Beach City College.
But the California community college took only 32 of them.
North of here, California State University, East Bay isn t enrolling any nursing students at all until at least next fall.
Higher education was struggling to keep up with the skyrocketing demand for nurses even before the COVID-19 crisis. Now it s falling further behind.