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...spate of hurricanes that battered South Florida three years ago blew the shingles off Tatrisha Harvin's modest house in Miami Gardens, Fla. But this year's housing catastrophe could do something much worse. Two years ago, Harvin, 44, a Miami-Dade corrections clerk, turned to interest rates that were at a historic low to ease her household finances. The apparent windfall came at a critical time: her husband was injured and a daughter was diagnosed with diabetes. She refinanced with an adjustable-rate mortgage, taking out a chunk of her home equity. But she says she never realized...
Colombia's Military Revival: A decade ago, the Miami-Dade County police force could have defeated the Colombian military. Back then, in fact, the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC had the upper hand in Colombia's four-decade-old civil war. But since Uribe took office in 2002, the armed forces have grown and modernized impressively enough to land body blows against the FARC, as demonstrated by Reyes' stunning demise. Chavez may have spent $4 billion over the past decade to buy everything from AK-47 rifles to Russian Sukhoi fighter planes, but the Venezuelan armed forces haven't seen...
...precisely 1:09 p.m. on Feb. 26, all but four of the 2,670 traffic lights in Miami--Dade County, Fla., went dark. A blackout, sparked by a fire, crept up the state, affecting 4 million people. Traffic choked the roadways. The nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point power plant shut down. As air-conditioning faded on an 84°F (29°C) day, thousands wandered into the streets...
...year later, many feel Northwestern has also made itself an example of how to turn those problems around. Instead of suspending football at the school altogether, reform-minded Miami-Dade Schools superintendent Rudy Crew purged much of Northwestern's administrative and football coaching staff. Then, he brought back a respected former Northwestern head coach, Billy Rolle, and hired a veteran principal, Charles Hankerson, with a mandate to emphasize grades over gridiron. "Monday through Friday we're really not talking about football," says Hankerson. "In some ways, we have to re-culturalize a whole population here, but I think...
...rest of the Southern U.S., where guns are easier to come by, has been particularly hard hit. In the past six weeks, two officers have been killed, and one recently got off life support after a gunman on a motorcycle shot him in the head. On Sept. 13, Miami-Dade police Sgt. Jose Somohano died and three other officers were injured by an assailant armed with an AK-47, three years to the day after the expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. On August 6, a motorcyclist shot Broward Sheriff's Det. Maury Hernandez in the head when pulled...