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When a hired hand brought in some skeletal remains unearthed on their okra farm in Archer, Fla., Ron and Pat Love asked a scientist friend to identify them. Horse bones, he said, good for nothing more than paperweights. Dissatisfied, the Loves sought a second opinion from Paleontologist S. David Webb of the Florida State Museum in Gainesville. Webb quickly determined that the bones had come not from a horse but from a short-legged rhinoceros called Teleoceras. It was a creature that had lumbered across that area of Florida millions of years...
...cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...
Although Los Angeles is the capital of the solid gold condo, it is by no means unique in the U.S. Around Miami, at least 4,000 luxury units are under construction; most are sold out. One of the most lavish habitats, Grove Isle at Coconut Grove, Fla., has a garden graced with sculpture by Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. Condo owners at the Turnberry Isle Yacht and Racquet Club in North Miami Beach have access to two Robert Trent Jones golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a marina, health spa and disco...
...Bombay-born son of a civil servant, Rabbitt became interested in aging by accident, when conducting routine tests in connection with his Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge, which showed widely varying reactions between young and old. He once tested some 2,000 people in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the U.S. Public Health Service, and his current project is a thorough study of 500 old people in the Oxford area. Though his picture of failing memory is stark, Rabbitt points out that the description hardly fits everyone: 5% to 10% of people in their 70s have memories just as reliable as their...
...born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide...