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...Created in a post-9/11 panic—quick, someone do something!—it took less than a year for the TSA to be branded a “monster” by the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, John Mica (R-Fla.). But until voters and politicians treat the threat of terrorism rationally, accepting certain risks and recognizing that some preventative measures are too costly, the TSA will neither guard our security nor our liberty...
During the week, Tim Mahoney, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 16th congressional district, is a millionaire investment banker in Boca Raton, Fla. On the weekends he plays cattle rancher at his spread west of Lake Okeechobee. Given that just a week ago Mahoney trailed six-term Republican incumbent Mark Foley by double digits in the polls, it seemed politics was destined to be just another of his expensive hobbies. But since Foley dropped out of the race last Friday - felled by the growing scandal over inappropriate e-mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have...
...savings are clear enough to Patricia Guiles, 74, of Palm Bay, Fla., whose husband Harold, 77 and in poor health, fell and couldn't get up. She called 911. But by the time the ambulance arrived, she had talked with her husband's house-call doctor by cell phone. She sent the ambulance away, and the doctor came, checked her husband's heart with an ECG, gave him a shot and adjusted his medication. The next day the doctor sent a technician with a portable electrocardiograph to check his heart. "This is much more intimate care," she says...
...Josh Joseph learned of the internship program at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., from his mother, Molly, a nurse. "I wanted to somehow set a career path - the earlier the better," says Joseph. He was 16 at the time...
DIED. Patty Berg, 88, charismatic, pioneering women's-golf champion whose record of 15 major titles still stands; in Fort Myers, Fla. Eager to run the women's game more efficiently, in 1950 she jump-started the formation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and tirelessly promoted the 13-member group as its first president. At her induction into the Hall of Fame in 1951, Berg -- who as a girl played quarterback on a local team with friend (and soon-to-be-legendary University of Oklahoma coach) Bud Wilkinson -- joked, "I'm very happy I gave up football...