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...People are just getting more and more used to craft beers.” One of the goals of the pub has been to make craft beers—which come from smaller breweries—accessible, explained the pub’s food and beverage manager Scott D. Alpizar ’09. “We want to get people to enjoy good beer. There’s more to beer than just drinking as much as you can,” Alpizar said. “It’s very flavorful, very different...
...decided it was a good idea to examine from an academic perspective what it is that creates happiness and causes positive emotions so that in my career, I will know what perspective to have and how to approach things,” she said. Scott D. Alpizar ’09, an economics concentrator, said he is taking the course for more personal reasons. “It’ll help me be a better person,” he said. Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution...
Indeed, according to Alpizar's neighbors in Maitland, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, he was an easygoing guy. They recall Alpizar and Buechner as a close couple often seen jogging and biking together. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Alpizar, who was 44, worked as a paint salesman at Home Depot and became a U.S. citizen several years ago. "He was very American," says Louis Gunther, whose house is directly across the street from Alpizar's. "He loved it here. He has a flag up in his backyard all the time." But Gunther and other neighbors say they were...
...marshals are trained to deal with abnormal behavior. But the airline crew did not know about Alpizar's condition, and Denis Breslin, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, suggests that Buechner's cries about her husband's illness could have been a ploy to distract the air marshals. "They are trained to make a split-second decision. They don't have time to second-guess," says Representative John Mica of Florida, who chairs the House subcommittee on aviation. "I think they acted absolutely appropriately...
...putting a gun on an airplane makes the public safer--that simply isn't true," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit gun-control group. An investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade police. But right now, the one person taking blame is Alpizar's wife. "He didn't want to get on the plane," passengers heard Buechner say after the shots were fired. "My husband is dead. It's all my fault...