Word: florida
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...year U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned by all of Washington?s allies. But those "special interest groups" ?- anti-Castro Cuban exiles with significant electoral power in the swing states of Florida and New Jersey ?- will have Al Gore?s people jumping on the brake wherever possible. "Conventional wisdom is that Gore?s interests will stand in the way of doing much of anything on foreign policy," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "On the other hand, President Clinton has his legacy...
...Miccosukees are trying to navigate an environmental Third Way. They've stood up to Everglades polluters like Florida's powerful sugar industry. But they've also taken on ecology groups who complain that the plan won't restore the Everglades to anything like its original condition--an idealistic stance that the Miccosukees say could only slow the project and cloud its focus. "The Miccosukees' role has been prophetic," says Allison DeFoor, Everglades adviser to Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "They've articulated a vision for the Everglades and made it move...
...Miccosukees, the region's revival needs to move as quickly as its demise has. They've always known that the Everglades is as essential as a blood supply--a knee-deep sheet of water that rolls half a mile a day, from the Kissimmee River to Florida Bay, sustaining life in marshes, coral reefs and cities. But a half-century ago, everyone else deemed it a mosquito-infested alligator swamp that was in the way of sugar fields and pink ranch houses. So the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built canals and levees to drain, rechannel--and utterly trash--eons...
...battle over affirmative action in higher education is over, and Ward Connerly won. The developments at the University of California since Connerly's Proposition 209 banned racial preferences will be repeated all over the nation if similar laws are adopted in such states as Texas and Florida, where Connerly, the Pied Piper of color blindness, plans to bring his crusade. But despite the moans you will hear from supporters of affirmative action, it may not be such a bad thing. It could force African Americans to rediscover a piece of mother wit: if you want to succeed in America...
...metal is pop's newest creative hotbed, but the trouble with this rising Florida act is that it too often comes off as an attitude in search of a band. Like nose rings or baggy jeans, attitude is just one more pop prop, and the muddy roar of Bizkit's angry, shapeless songs does nothing to prove otherwise. The group's latest album, though, trades some of the hard-core posing for song structure and, yes, melody--without getting too wimpy. Even the hardiest moshers occasionally need something to thrash to. Bizkit is still a long way from the brutal...