Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hiaasen's ire stems mostly from the creation of Disney World, virtually right in his own backyard. He hates what the theme park has done to his home town of Orlando, attracting people to a purely synthetic, artificially reassuring fairyland while treating the neighboring real world of South Florida as an offensive trash heap...
This claim seems labored for one reason: most families don't live in Disney World. Whatever escapism the theme park provides, people ultimately go home and face life outside the Magic Kingdom. Disney World is a private enterprise that has but a passing influence on most families' lives. But one of Disney's newest ventures attempts to extend its brand of corporate manufactured reassurance into public, not private, spaces, a concept that has made critics more temperate than Hiaasen cringe in dismay...
...male juvenile reports that he was assaulted by a 12-year-old female known to him while he was playing with friends in a park. The suspect allegedly punched the victim in the left eye, bit his right upper arm and threatened to slab him. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical attention...
...College Park, Md., Sebastian Janikowskikicked five field goals and Chris Weinke passedfor 261 yards as the Seminoles (4-1, 2-1 ACC)overcame their own mistakes. Florida State ledonly 16-10 at halftime against a team it hasdominated for years...
...search is on for ideas to create a lasting legacy, says Esakin, "so that when we're all long gone, people will look back and say, 'These people left us gifts that keep on giving.'" Ideas on the drawing board: a park project, a work of art, a time capsule...