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...Seaside, Fla. This is a real old-fashioned small town, built from scratch since 1981. Developer Robert Davis and planners Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have laid down simple, thoughtful rules derived from epicenters of charm such as Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, with their narrow streets, porches, alleys, wood siding, pitched roofs and absence of picture windows. On this master plan they let individual owners (148 so far) execute their own versions of the Seaside housing code with personal architects. The heterogeneity is real; the harmony is deep. Seaside could be the most astounding design achievement...
...test-firing of the Trident 2 missile last July by hanging an antinuclear banner on the communications mast of an American submarine, the Navy vowed that it would never again be similarly embarrassed. Last week, when the U.S.S. Tennessee launched a Trident 50 miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., the protesters discovered how determined the Navy...
Before the nine-year-old daughter of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...
Robert Mays of Sarasota, Fla., who reared Kimberly believing she was his daughter, had the painful task of telling her the truth. "She still calls me Daddy," says Mays...
...Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little Rock and Virginia Beach...