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...offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency restrictions that leave them scant available or affordable housing. They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. Not even during a recent cold spell, when nighttime temperatures dropped into the 30s, could they move into temporary lodging...
...Storys' fruit damage from that night and morning - which was forecast to be the worst of the spell - was in the 2% to 5% range, not great but hardly catastrophic. But elsewhere around the state, farmers haven't been so lucky. According to Florida Agriculture Department spokesman Terence McElroy, a full assessment won't be known for days or weeks, but "we hear anecdotally that there has been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables...
...family could remember a cold spell this protracted, not even since the freezes of the 1980s wrought more than a billion dollars in citrus losses. At 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 11, when the temperature read 25°F (-4°C), Kyle yanked an early-season orange from a tree. He sliced the top third and the juice ran freely, making him think they may have squeaked through another night. But with a second cut through the middle, Kyle shook his head. "This is not good," he said, running his knife through slush, as it's called...
...worked - up to a point. As the treatment went on, I began to catch my first glimpses of what it might be like to live without wanting to cross the street every time I saw a stranger holding an ice cream cone. But they were just that: glimpses. The spell always faded, and I didn't know how to make it last...
...can’t spell Harvard without ‘D.’ It was fitting, then, that the Crimson (9-3) showcased its defense in the second half last night at Lavietes Pavilion en route to pulling away from George Washington (9-3) for a 66-53 victory...