"The profession was switching the way it trained pharmacists, and as a result there was a year when we had no pharmacy class, " says Jim Owen, director of professional practice for the American Pharmaceutical Association.

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Then, as an educational exercise, I gathered the data about the upper-middle class city of Golden, Colorado, only to learn that we had almost 450 children who had no food on the weekend.

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