Word: orlandos
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...Fingors, a surfer guy who broadcasts Wednesday through Friday from Disneyland. He plays cool music, gives out prizes, takes phone calls from kids and does the occasional celebrity interview. Then there is B.B. Good, who has the noon-to-4-p.m. slot weekdays, airing from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Good's show, Radio Disney's Playhouse, caters to the younger crowd, with more traditional kids' songs, stories, and appearances by Disney characters like Minnie Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. There's also Don Crabtree, who pretends to broadcast from a tree hut every weekday morning...
...disorder isn't nearly so selective. As doctors look deeper into the condition and begin to understand its underlying causes, they are coming to the unsettling conclusion that large numbers of teens and children are suffering from it as well. The National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association gathered in Orlando, Fla., last week for its annual meeting, as doctors and therapists face a daunting task. Although the official tally of Americans suffering from bipolar disorder seems to be holding steady--at about 2.3 million, striking men and women equally--the average age of onset has fallen in a single generation...
...open markets where they're sold for their flesh. On dry land under a sunny sky, they fricassee fast. And while snakeheads have indeed popped up in half a dozen states besides Maryland, they've done so in modest numbers. Florida reported a single pair of river snakeheads near Orlando in 2001; Massachusetts encountered a single specimen last October. Florida has a population that appears to be breeding, but only in Hawaii, where the fish is isolated on the island of Oahu, does it truly thrive, and there it's aggressively fished. "Better than bass," says an enthusiastic angler...
...DIED. JOAQUIN BALAGUER, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic, whose rule spanned 22 years; in Santo Domingo. Balaguer was known as the "father of Dominican democracy" but was also remembered for atrocities committed early in his rule, most notably the mysterious assassination of journalist Orlando Martinez Howley...
FLORIDA In the months before the attacks, the Sept. 11 hijackers attended flight school and roamed all over the southern part of the Sunshine State. More recently, Orlando cabdriver and alleged al-Qaeda affiliate Ihab Mohamed Ali, in custody and silent since 1998, has started talking...