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...There is something wrong in the world when other countries are starving while we Americans are eating ourselves to death." KRISTINA VITEK Tampa, Fla...
When Ray Charles could see, he saw nothing but trouble. As an infant, he could see, if not understand, his father walking out on him and his teenage mother Aretha. At 6 months, he and his mother moved from his birthplace, Albany, Ga., to Greenville, Fla., where all he saw was poverty, with his family being even poorer than most, "nothing below us 'cept the ground," as he put it. At age 5, he saw his younger brother George drown in a washtub. At about that time Ray developed what may have been glaucoma. He soon found he could stare...
DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board...
...President, his Secretary of Defense and others in his Cabinet, and the blame rests with them. Bush has a benevolent heart; he wants what is best for Americans. He is a man of faith and goodwill, but he lacks the intellectual capacity to be a President. JUNE GOMEZ Orlando, Fla...
Within 24 hours of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Robin Murphy was on the scene with a team of robots to help sort through the debris. It was the first real-world test of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue in Tampa, Fla., the only unit of its kind on the planet. Rescue workers at ground zero, accustomed to using trained dogs and cameras mounted on poles to look for survivors and human remains and test for structural weaknesses, soon saw the advantage of cyberhelpers. "Search cams typically penetrate only 18 ft., and the heat...