Tuesday August 28, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

With nearly 20,000 pharmacist jobs unfilled across the nation, the UA's College of Pharmacy tries to graduate quality students to help improve the situation.

"Basically, it is bad that there is a shortage because pharmacists are important in the medical field," said Jolene Garrett, a third-year pharmacy student.

According to a June survey conducted by the American Hospital Association, 21 percent of pharmacist jobs at hospitals and 6 percent of these positions at chain pharmacies are currently unfilled.

Fast facts:

There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York.

Las Vegas gambling casinos do not traditionally have clocks.

The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a "keeper."

"Hoosier" - Indiana's state nickname - came from a generic Southern word, meaning backwoodsman.

There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.

On this date: Tuesday August 28th, 2001

In Baltimore, "Tom Thumb" - the passenger-carrying train locomotive - completed its first run in 1830. It was the first locomotive of its kind to be built in the United States.

Slavery was banned in the British Empire by the British Parliament in 1883.

The Walker Cup, the oldest international team golf match in the United States, was held for the first time in 1922 in Southampton, New York.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC amid approximately 250,000 people.

Quotable...

"Immigration is an African-American issue, it's a Latino issue, an Asian-American issue. But most of all it's an American issue,"
- Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP board of directors at a press conference on immigration.