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...said would prove his resistance to Saddam's dictatorship. Barzan had fled before the U.S. dropped six smart bombs on his luxurious compound 70 miles west of Baghdad, and was then turned in to American forces by an informer. Yet Schneider, an IRS criminal investigator based in Pensacola, Fla., told TIME that he displayed no ill will toward the U.S. Vain and concerned about his appearance, Barzan did grumble about a tear in his safari suit and waved a hand to show his long fingernails, complaining that he had not been allowed to trim them...
...response, funeral directors act more like event planners, keeping prop rooms, offering video services and dropping words like "choreography" and "production quality" into their spiels. The Panciera Memorial Home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., held about 100 nontraditional services last year, compared with just a handful five years ago. Valerie Panciera-Rief, the home's director of aftercare, has imported butterflies to be released at the end of a service, staged a beach party--complete with seashells and margaritas--for a late Jimmy Buffett fan, and regularly covers chapel walls with sheets of white paper on which attendees can record their...
...world of nudists brims with surprises, perhaps the biggest is that it is a propitious moment for nudism in America. Membership in A.A.N.R. has climbed from about 40,000 a decade ago to nearly 50,000 today. A tourism official in Pasco County, Fla., says more than 100,000 tourists a year visit its five nudist resorts, of which Lake Como, founded in 1947, is the oldest. In 1992, Forbes estimated nudism to be a $120 million-a-year industry. A.A.N.R. claims that with all the nudist resorts, clothing-optional cruises (seven this year) and other enterprises (there...
...loved one seriously injured by a negligent doctor would support limits on malpractice awards. Insurance companies are taking advantage of physicians' fear of medical-malpractice suits. They have finally pushed the doctors too far. SONDRA ADAMS Jacksonville, Fla...
DIED. ROBERT GOOD, 81, a founder of modern immunology who in 1968 performed the world's first successful bone-marrow transplant; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. His ground-breaking research (which landed him on TIME's cover in 1973) focused on methods of fighting infection, including identifying T cells and B cells, the main elements of the immune system. He was a founding member of the National Institutes of Medicine...