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...right track. Along with some 300,000 other young adults in the U.S., she belongs to the first wave of childhood-cancer survivors to benefit from several decades' worth of research in treating cancer in the young. Now a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Dyer, 28, unlike so many young cancer patients before her, has every expectation of reaching the ordinary milestones in life--graduation, first job, marriage--that most of us take for granted...
...include Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Mayor William P. Purcell of Nashville, Tenn., Noelia Rodriguez, the former director of communications and press secretary to Laura Bush, and E. Clay Shaw, a U.S. Representative from Florida...
...followed up with a brief factual question related to the story we asked them about,” Patterson said. “For example, ‘do you happen to know if [Smith] died in California or Florida?’ or ‘did the British say they were going to withdraw all of their troops or part of their troops...
Just as much a wild card, however, are Floridians themselves. They are environmentally conscious on issues like Everglades preservation and offshore oil drilling. Even Crist's conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, the President's younger brother, championed the former and opposed the latter. Still, the car is king in Florida to a greater degree than it is even in California; and the peninsula is scattered with dead initiatives to curb its use, especially local tax efforts to improve the state's virtually nonexistent public transportation. But Crist, whose optimism is as bright as his tan, isn't worried. "Floridians love their...
...rating is flying around 70%, and he's won kudos for reinstilling a bipartisan spirit into the state's traditionally centrist politics. What's more, the summit adds to the state's feeling that it's become a national agenda-setter, especially after Crist and the legislature recently moved Florida's presidential primary to the front of the pack by scheduling it in January. Presidential candidates "are crawling all over the state now," Crist says. They're listening harder, he adds, to Florida-sensitive issues like a national catastrophe fund for disasters like hurricanes. And now, he hopes, they...