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...company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal. Now the United States Tennis Association has to fish for a new sponsor in a very soft market. The sports-facility boom could also take a hit: the economy will likely delay ground-breaking for the new Florida Marlins stadium in Miami...
...Mexico Roadblock for Cuban Migrants Cuban refugees have long been allowed asylum in the U.S. only if they reach land--the so-called dry-foot policy. That's made the "dusty foot" route via Mexico far more popular than a risky sail to Florida. But under a new deal, Mexico will deport illegal Cuban migrants, in a policy that may signal warmer Cuba-Mexico ties...
...route to Florida...
California has the dubious distinction of ranking second, just behind Florida, in the number of lethal and nonlethal attacks against homeless people last year. It recorded 22, but, says Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the actual number of attacks is likely even higher because many are never reported. After a huge increase in 2006 - 65%, some of which is attributed to the video Bumfights, in which people who live on the street are pitted against one another - last year still saw an increase of 13%. Street people, says Foscarinis, live "outside, so they...
...crisis - it was Obama's gut steadiness that won the public's trust, and quite possibly the election. On the afternoon when McCain suspended his campaign, threatened to scuttle the Sept. 26 debate and hopped a plane back to Washington to try to resolve the crisis, Obama was in Florida doing debate prep with his top advisers. When he was told about McCain's maneuvers, Obama's first reaction - according to an aide - was, "You gotta be kidding. I'm going to debate. A President has to be able to do more than one thing at a time." But there...