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DIED. HARRY LAMPERT, 88, original illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...
Known as the City of Mosques, Fallujah had an estimated population of 300,000, about the same as Tampa, Fla. U.S. officials said that at least 70% of the people fled before the battle...
...electrician from Corpus Christi, Texas, sitting in Essider's dining hall in blue jeans and work boots. Days after U.S. officials ordered him out in 1986, Cazalas says, he called his Libyan colleagues and talked his way back into his old job. Darrell Livingston, 51, from Winterhaven, Fla., who works on Essider's metering equipment, says he was once detained by federal agents after arriving home and asked to inform for them in Libya. Livingston says he rejected their offer but kept his job, even filing yearly U.S. tax returns listing his overseas residence as Libya. "The IRS didn...
...sad that people in this day and age of scientific discovery still cling to old superstitions. If we would accept that this is the only life we have and stop yearning for a nonexistent afterlife, maybe humanity would make the world of today a better place.WILLIAM MCWHINNEY Coral Springs, Fla...
Well, maybe the swirling winds of Harvard Stadium’s open end were just a little bit different than the warm gusts of air flowing through Schindel’s hometown, Coral Springs, Fla...