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Nonsense, counters Sidney Glugover, who counsels elderly shoplifters in Florida's Broward County: "Feinberg and the other social scientists like to invent poetic theories about alienated subcultures. Economics is at the root of the crime. If you want a theory for what they're doing, you can call it 'dollar stretch...
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...autopsies performed by Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Wright appeared to tell a different tale. He repotted that most of the dead had eaten a hot meal of pork, chicken and rice less than two hours before they drowned. Since the food could not easily have been cooked on the overcrowded boat, Wright concluded that the Haitians had eaten on a large freighter run by smugglers and then were herded onto La Nativité a few miles from shore. Said Wright: "To me that's hard and fast proof they were dumped off from a mother ship...
Today very little untouched wetland remains, especially in Dade and Broward counties. They get much of their water from a formation called the Biscayne Aquifer, extending from Miami on the east to the Everglades on the west. But heavily populated Miami and its environs draw so much water that the water table is rapidly falling, permitting sea water to seep into the aquifer. Only in the Everglades, where the land over the aquifer is still unpaved, can this reservoir be effectively resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried...
...this week began and the vote counting proceeded at an agonizingly slow pace, it looked as if the President would get his victory-and by more than one vote. Carter did well in the northern Panhandle, next door fo his native Georgia, Kennedy in Gold Coast counties like Broward and Palm Beach; he also made a stronger showing than expected in central Florida. The big surprise was Dade County (Miami), where Kennedy strategists had been hoping for a clean sweep but Carter seemed to be holding...