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Central Florida is hot. With Orlando--one of the world's top tourist spots--at its heart, the region expects to add more than 232,000 jobs (an increase of 28%) in fields as diverse as software, optics and leisure by 2005. Even with 500 newcomers arriving each day, "there is a job here for everyone who wants one," says Dan Lynch, president and ceo of the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida. Even the marquee of Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando sports a help-wanted sign--for a hall monitor...
...area's prime beaches and luxury resorts, as well as the hip, Art Deco district of South Beach. Outside a thin necklace of fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. The downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they...
Miami has had more than its share of calamity in the past few years, including Hurricane Andrew, major riots in black neighborhoods and a nasty wave of tourist murders. But with the current fiscal crisis, the stakes are higher than ever. If Carollo can stave off bankruptcy and persuade voters to reject dissolution, he could be remembered as one of Miami's most important mayors. If he fails, he may be remembered as its last...
...Congress, the first question that comes to mind is "where are all the books?" I talked with my friends, and no one I knew had ever actually found a book there. My mission would be to find sometbing to verify that Widener was a library and not a fraudulent tourist attraction like the "John Harvard" statue, a monument to a student whom the faculty thought looked cool...
SENTENCED. MARTIN BRYANT, 29, gunman who killed 35 and injured 19 at a Tasmanian tourist spot in April; to 35 life terms; in Hobart, Australia...