Word: fla
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...race, 68% to 32%. "There's a way he could have [come out]," says Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a nonpartisan gay group. "It's a very different world now, and it is certainly a different world for a guy from Palm Beach, Fla." Two Republican Congressmen have come out and been re-elected in the past 12 years. By contrast, Foley was unwilling to risk losing his D.C. life--the Hollywood visitors, the parties, the lambent glow of public attention that enchanted...
...year Audio Enhancement of Bluffdale, Utah, the leading U.S. vendor of classroom sound systems, sold 15,000 of them, up from 7,000 in 2002. Typical cost per classroom: $1,500. Reno, Nev., has added the devices to 52 schools over the past two years, and Palm Beach County, Fla., is using a federal grant to pay for systems in 27 poorly performing schools...
This past March, Barb Jarmoska and 21 other women over the age of 50 set out from San Diego on a cross-country bike trip to raise money for breast-cancer research. Their goal was to arrive in St. Augustine, Fla., in two months' time after pedaling through eight states. Each woman paid for her own trip and picked her own breast-cancer charity. For Jarmoska, it was the perfect way to pay homage to two dear friends she had lost to the disease, while fulfilling a lifelong desire to bike across...
...Estero, Fla...
...adopted widely by sellers of model houses and real estate agents in North Carolina to make prospective buyers feel at home the instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain Emack & Bolio's recently adopted a waffle-cone smell to attract patrons to the scoop shop within the Orlando, Fla., Hard Rock Hotel, where sales had been flagging. The effect? Ice cream sales shot up more than a third. To stave off olfactory fatigue--customers typically stop noticing a smell after a minute or two--some retailers use a timed sequence of targeted smells to "decorate" an environment...