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...McFarland, the Florida shoe repairman, thinks a two-year downturn would give the industry a "shot in the arm" that could last 10 to 15 years. But even McFarland is quick to temper his excitement. He too realizes that what's good for the cobbler might be bad for the souls of his countrymen. "The more people we get," he says, "the worse it is out there...
...long run,” Hauser said. Hauser is currently working on finding sanctuaries where the tamarins can spend the remainder of their lives. “Some will probably be an upgrade [from William James],” Hauser said, “in Florida or something like that.” —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu
...radio host attacked him on air. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld Cook's right to an on-air response under the Fairness Doctrine, arguing that nothing in the First Amendment gives a broadcast license holder the exclusive right to the airwaves they operate on. But when Florida tried to hold newspapers to a similar standard in 1974's Miami Herald Publishing Co. V. Tornillo, the Supreme Court was less receptive. Justices agreed that newspapers - which don't require licenses or airwaves to operate - face theoretically unlimited competition, making the protection of the Fairness Doctrine unneeded...
Fast Facts: • Raised in southern Florida by his mother and his stepfather, who was a judge. As a high school student, Kerlikowske worked as a crime scene photographer on the weekends...
...After being drafted into the Army in 1970 and being stationed in Washington, D.C. for two years - part of his job was to salute President Nixon as he boarded the presidential helicopter - Kerlikowske became a police officer in St. Petersburg, Fla. He ran two small police departments in Florida before being hired as chief of police in Buffalo...