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...bold choice being floated is state representative Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, a Trinidad-born, African-American Republican who has been the state house's majority whip and deputy majority leader. A rising star in the Florida GOP, Carroll, 49, served 20 years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a lieutenant commander. Another is GOP state representative Anitere Flores of Miami. Flores, the current deputy majority leader, is only 32, and she's the legislature's only Hispanic female - which itself is a comment on both the Democratic and the Republican parties in Florida. Flores, who has also been mentioned...
...Leonard Nimoy just headed to Las Vegas for one of the world's largest Star Trek conventions. What was that like? There used to be as many as 15,000 people coming to these conventions and I would get up and not quite know what the next word would be, and then go from there. That was those early conventions, and then I began to get into a sort of stand-up routine. I'd change my act every six months or so, but I think everyone there had already heard them. And now apparently interest has revived...
Have you seen the latest Star Trek film? I haven't. Abrams sent me a message through the Web - what was it, Twittered me? No. YouTubed me? No, what has he done? E-mailed me. He e-mailed me saying he heard that I hadn't seen the movie and he'd set up a private screening, and I declined the private screening and told him I'd buy him dinner...
...late June, Teri, now 31, tearfully packed the last few things - dishes, plants - in her three-bedroom house in Star, a Boise exurb of a few thousand people. When the Lupos' 7-year-old daughter was asked by a neighborhood friend why her family didn't have enough money to pay for its house, she couldn't say. The answer: her father's income from selling cars kept dropping just as her mother's medical-transcription company started losing business to electronic record-keeping. Among the expenses cut from the family budget was health insurance...
...Star Grows in Newark...