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...precisely 1:09 p.m. on Feb. 26, all but four of the 2,670 traffic lights in Miami--Dade County, Fla., went dark. A blackout, sparked by a fire, crept up the state, affecting 4 million people. Traffic choked the roadways. The nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point power plant shut down. As air-conditioning faded on an 84°F (29°C) day, thousands wandered into the streets...
...Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Moses led voter registration drives in the deep south. In 1982, he founded the Algebra Project, a progressive math education program for low-income students that has been put in place in around 40,000 American middle schools. Currently, he teaches math in Miami, Fla. The civil rights leader only mentioned his own career in the question-and-answer session following the speech, when a former student asked him how he believed his role as an educator had furthered civil rights. Moses said that he saw education as a crucial step in expanding rights...
...straight couples are formed by people who have been exposed to religious, social, familial, legal and cultural promotion of and support for such unions. Gay couples don't get any such reinforcement. In fact, they get the opposite, to the point of being attacked and demonized. Zeke Sutherland, Tampa, Fla...
...straight couples are formed by people who have been exposed to religious, social, familial, legal and cultural promotion of and support for such unions. Gay couples don't get any such reinforcement. In fact, they get the opposite, to the point of being attacked and demonized. Zeke Sutherland, TAMPA, FLA...
...assistant secretary for policy and planning in the Democratic administration, was a 1998 graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Rhodes Scholar. According to a probable cause document from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, McGee was arrested at the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande, Fla. in late December after police received a complaint from a man claiming that McGee had sexually abused his teenage son in the steam room of the $600-a-night Gulf Coast resort. McGee entered the steam room, masturbated in front of the victim, and performed oral sex on the victim...