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Gympie Specialist Clinic. Dr North said he was inspired to service the Gympie region because of his opposition to centralising private health care. “I used to be a GP in rural Victoria as a GP/obstetric so I was delivering babies, but unfortunately our service got closed,” he said. “I wanted to keep practising obstetrics so I went and did more training, and my last two years of training were in Caboolture. “I’ve got a rural background and I do believe in trying to keep services r...

Robert Cohan, 95, Dies; Exported Contemporary Dance to Britain A New York-born protégé of Martha Graham, he and a rich patron revolutionized dance in the U.K. with a cutting-edge new form. Robert Cohan in 1962. He was both a dancer and a teacher with the Martha Graham company in New York before revolutionizing dance in Britain.Credit...Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Published Jan. 29, 2021Updated Feb. 1, 2021 Robert Cohan, a New York-born dancer and choreographer who changed the course of British...

First published on Thu 14 Jan 2021 12.06 EST Sir Robert Cohan, who has died aged 95, transformed the dance scene in Britain in the 1960s. A charismatic dancer, notable choreographer, great teacher and artistic director, Cohan was the man who gave form to the vision of the philanthropist Robin Howard that American modern dance could take root and flourish in the UK. Howard, an admirer of the US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, established the Contemporary Ballet Trust (which became the Co...

Missouri offered double the incentives, but Urban Outfitters chose to build in Kansas Kevin Hardy and Allison Kite, The Kansas City Star Dec. 22—When Kansas City lost its bid to land a massive Urban Outfitters distribution center this summer, Mayor Quinton Lucas wrote to city staff, congratulating the negotiating team for holding the line when negotiating incentives with the company. The mayor said the Port Authority of Kansas City, which led those talks, was determined to "no...