Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should take lessons from people in professional baseball and football. Mediocrity in these sports are not being rewarded. The Chicago White Sox are ready to bolt for St. Petersburg or any other town that will promise on a stack of Roger Angel's The Summer Game to fill the stadium. The St. Louis Cardinals were so bad that the city finally gave up on them. Their move to Phoenix brought no tears. Now, with the marriage of the Cardinals and Phoenix not yet a year old, fans are getting the let's-end-this itch. Phoenix Cardinal ticket prices...
...college, I wanted to go back," says retired lawyer Robert Friedman, 73, who is one of 400 students enrolled in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program of courses specially created for and taught ! by retirees on the Cambridge campus. Eckerd College, strategically located in St. Petersburg, has even opened a 133-unit senior citizen condominium on its campus, complete with 60 nursing beds...
Many Tampa Bay residents feel a surge of civic pride as they drive across the new $244 million, 4.1-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the centerpiece of a 13- mile causeway connecting the tip of St. Petersburg's peninsula to the mainland. The span replaces a pair of cantilevered bridges, built in 1954 and 1971. The newer of the two collapsed in 1980, killing 35 people, when it was hit by a freighter during a blinding rainstorm. After the accident, more than 20,000 vehicles a day crowded onto the single remaining two-lane span. Government officials could have repaired...
...which is believed to hinder the replication of the virus and is the only federally approved drug to treat the disease. But many also cling to the belief that AIDS can be controlled largely through mental attitude. That is the case with Ronald Webeck, 40, of St. Petersburg, who found "positive thinking" last year, nearly two years after he was discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily to hold a job, he is able to work with an AIDS...
...developed his wry, sweet and irrepressibly meshuggeneh visions in the two great forcing houses of modernism between 1900 and 1925: Paris and Russia. As a student in St. Petersburg up to 1910, he came under the wing of Diaghilev's designer Leon Bakst; an enlightened Jewish patron, Max Vinaver, sent him to Paris that year. He took a studio in a rickety building near the slaughteryards and found that his neighbors were Soutine, Leger and Modigliani. Back in Russia by 1914, Chagall waited out World War I (and was plunged into the Revolution) in the company of Tatlin, Malevich...