Word: florida
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...there's a catch: off-peak travel can mean less than ideal weather. Choose Europe in November, and you may get cold and rain. Venture to Florida or the Caribbean in July, and you may find it extremely hot and humid. There may be fewer sites and programs available, and those that are running often have restricted hours or days of operation. The charming green markets and eclectic stalls of crafts and clothing that line streets in peak season may have disappeared; the golf course you play may not be in top condition. But if you're willing to bend...
...Texas, where the University of Texas, responding to a federal court order, has also stopped considering race in admissions. But other suits challenging racial preferences are under way elsewhere in the U.S., notably at the University of Michigan. Other states are considering Prop. 209-style initiatives, among them Florida, where a drive is on to put an anti-affirmative action referendum on the 2000 ballot. If cascading goes national, what impact will it have on America's college students? The answer is unfolding in California, on campuses like Irvine...
Inside the $50 million casino resort that Florida's Miccosukee Indians have just opened near Miami, it's hard to imagine that the rows of blinking machines could have any purpose more sublime than electronic bingo. That's why Miccosukee chairman Billy Cypress likes to usher guests onto the rooftop and point west to his tribe's home: the Everglades. An 18,000-sq.-mi. expanse of shimmering water, waving sawgrass and emerald tree hammocks, it is one of America's most vital but abused natural treasures. Like the endangered wood storks that glide overhead, the fewer than 500 Miccosukees...
...Indians lamenting pollution on TV spots. But this time, Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role in the Everglades restoration by outmaneuvering some of Florida's and Washington's strongest lobbies in a legal campaign to help set tougher water-quality standards and break bureaucratic logjams...
FINED. COLUMBA BUSH, 45, wife of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; $4,100, by U.S. Customs officers; for failing to declare $19,000 in clothes and jewelry bought in Paris; in Atlanta. She paid with a check and apologized for "exercising bad judgment...