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...says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates that her still incomplete family database has the names of 11,000 relatives. Heiss, who has taught genealogy classes at the Family History Center in Boca Raton for more than 10 years, has traveled through the South and to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Your Family Tree | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...years Sol Feldman, 81, of Tamarac, Fla., successfully treated his hypertension with the prescription drug Hyzaar. Then his HMO was sold to another company, and the new plan insisted he use a lower-cost substitute. "I took it for about a week, and my pressure went sky high," Feldman recalls. When the HMO refused to let him go back to Hyzaar, he switched to another plan that covered it. A few months later, however, the new HMO also dropped its Hyzaar coverage. At $79 for a month's supply, Feldman couldn't afford to pay for the prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing The HMO Game | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...JUPITER, FLA. No roadside billboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned in the U.S.A. | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, FLA. No run-down facades with chipped paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned in the U.S.A. | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...during my teenage years, we did exactly the same things that kids do today. However, we had a much harder time learning the language and methods with no TV, only music radio. ROBERT N. RADER Moore Haven, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1998 | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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