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Arizona needs 700 more primary-care physicians just to get to the national average.

More M.D.s Needed Under New Health Law

Mar 26, 2012 Arizona already well short of national average for primary care physicians

AZ Week: Health Care Costs Unsustainable

Mar 23, 2012 Return to free market, economist says; fix Medicare, Medicaid, others say
Entertainer Ben Vereen, in Tucson to teach dance and for a March 31 performance, leads an effort to help young entertainers find their way.

Song, Dance Man Vereen Seeks Up and Comers

Mar 19, 2012 Visiting Tucson for concert, he stops at Tucson High, offers his help
Tucson Festival of Books, 2012

Tucson Festival of Books Wraps Up at UA

Mar 12, 2012 4th annual draws thousands to meet authors, browse books, celebrate reading

UA Club Helps With Campus Sustainability

Mar 9, 2012 Solar Cats was created to put solar panels on a UA dorm

AZ Week: Economists See Good Times Ahead

Mar 9, 2012 2012 will 'feel' like recovery; 2013 will be even stronger, they say
Tucson Unified School District students.

Initiative Proposed to Extend 1-Cent Sales Tax

Mar 9, 2012 AZ education group seeks placement on November ballot
Tucsonan David Shellouff on his visit to Libya, with posters depicting martyrs of the Arab Spring.

UA Student Visits Libya, His Father's Homeland

Mar 5, 2012 He vows to reconnect with Libyan roots and family after fall of Qaddafi
Jennie Grabel, executive director for the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, says anti-bullying, mental health support top the fund's agenda.

Civility Groups Forging Projects

Feb 21, 2012 Updates from two organizations formed after Jan. 8 shooting
Artists Patricia Katchur and Valerie Galloway share their new concepts of the valentine, which are showing in the U of A's Poetry Center exhibition.

Poetry Center Reinvents the Valentine

Feb 13, 2012 Artists paired off to take laces and hearts to new level
The University of Arizona

UA President Finalist Named

Feb 7, 2012 Regents name Ann Weaver Hart, president of Temple University, as 'the candidate'
The Velocis bicycle developed by UA student Taylor Hedberg and his classmates as part of an entrepreneurial class.

Electric Bicycle: Creating an Innovative Solution

Jan 24, 2012 The UA's McGuire Entrepreneurship Program encourages business, social change

AZ Week: Water Legislation Needed, Expert Says

Jan 20, 2012 State faces 'critical threshold' in 2035, when usage will exceed supply
Gabrielle Giffords waving to the crowd at a Jan. 8, 2012 anniversary vigil of the shooting that took six lives and left her and 12 others wounded.

Tucson Remembers

Jan 8, 2012 2,000 welcome Giffords back home in joyful, emotional evening

Modest Bump Expected for Holiday Retail Sales

Nov 23, 2011 Amid growing competition, merchants diversify, add services and values
Celebrating the beauty, craftsmanship, and audio nuances of acoustic and electric guitars, the University of Arizona Museum of Art presents Good Vibrations: The Guitar as Design, Craft and Function.

Exhibit Tunes In to Guitarmaking History

Nov 1, 2011 "Good Vibrations" offers glimpse at the instrument and its construction, from 16th-century Europe to present-day Tucson

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