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...created along power-line paths; Florida has also adopted a standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play in a major portion of the schoolyard because of nearby power cables...
Prefrosh week was not Rachel A. Pollack's first stay at Harvard. Last fall, the Boca Raton, Fla.-native visited Cambridge as a recruit for the tennis team. The year before, the private school student attended summer school here...
Restaurateurs are amused by such antics. And delighted. "Dessert sales started going up two or three years ago, and there seems to be no end in sight," reports Leonce Picot, owner of the Down Under and Casa Vecchia in Fort Lauderdale, La Vieille Maison in Boca Raton and the Old House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm...
...Crimson added six swimmers and a diver: Courtney Chubb of Bedford, Mass.; Stacie Duncan of Simmi, Calif.; Ruth Tanenbaum of Boca Raton, Fla.; Jenny Moyer of Catham, N.Y.; Julie Pawlak (diver) of Lexington, Mass.; and Stephanie Wriede of Warren, N.J. Also, Ann Loerckie will return to the squad after taking a year...
Unlike its ritzy neighbors, Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Lantana is a sleepy, unassuming little town on Florida's east coast. On closer inspection, however, the place has subtle marks of distinction. Like Dawn's News & Smoke Shop, where the daily selection of newspapers from around the world rivals that of any five-star hotel in London, New York City or Tokyo. The papers are bought and avidly read by a rambunctious colony of 200-plus British and Commonwealth expatriates who make their homes in Lantana and the surrounding area...