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FEMA gave $21 million in Miami-Dade, where storms were 'like a severe thunderstorm'
Staff WritersThe four hurricanes that pummeled the rest of Florida hardly brushed Miami-Dade County. Only Hurricane Frances was a factor there -- packing the punch of a bad thunderstorm. Local officials described the damage as minimal. Yet more than 19,500 Miami-Dade...Tags: Weather, Biscayne Park, Disasters and Accidents, FEMA, Natural Disasters
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FAA opens probe into cleavers carried onto jet
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Miami BureauThe Federal Aviation Administration and an airport security company are investigating how a Chinese chef apparently got meat cleaver-like cooking utensils onto a Miami-to-Chicago flight. Ming Sung Mok, 76, was released from jail Tuesday night on his...Tags: AirTran, The Associated Press, Fort Lauderdale, O'Hare International Airport, Federal Aviation Administration
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New IDs ordered for airport workers
Tribune staff reportersAttempting to reassure airline passengers and flight crews that security gaps at the nation's airports are being addressed, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday hundreds of thousands of airport workers need to have their credentials verified to...Tags: Osama bin Laden, Criminals, Heads of State, Defense, O'Hare International Airport
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Florida's Dr. Snakehead is making a house call
Sun StaffGAINESVILLE, Fla. - Few people in this country know more about the sharp-toothed Asian fish that has invaded a Crofton pond than the man some here call Dr. Snakehead. For the past year, Walter R. Courtenay Jr. has pored through reams of papers in a...Tags: Houston, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Natural Resources, Florida Atlantic University
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Brains behind design of new Soldier Field
Tribune architecture criticThe firestorm of controversy over the redesign of Soldier Field, which makes its debut Sept. 29, began with a spark lit during a tennis game on Martha's Vineyard. In the 1980s, Boston architect Ben Wood found himself on the same tennis court as Michael...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Adler Planetarium, Soldier Field, Football, Chicago Park District
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Part 1: Study finds many marine mammals dying in captivity
This is the second in a series of stories called Marine Attractions: Below the Surface. Four decades ago, hunters off the coast of Washington found the perfect young killer whale specimen swimming with its mother. They fired a harpoon, hoping to attach a...Tags: Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Animals, Shamu (killer whale), Busch Entertainment Corp.
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Language in the workplace: Confronting tensions on the job
Business WritersVisit the backroom of Field of Flowers in Davie, and you'll hear a medley of accents as workers aesthetically arrange colorful bouquets. There is Mee Sum Ye, who emigrated from Hong Kong a year ago, working alongside Maria Elena Dios, who is Venezuelan....Tags: Germany, Fort Lauderdale, Justice System, Unions, BellSouth Corporation
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2 cleavers found in bag after screening
Tribune staff reportersArgenbright Security Inc., already under fire for lax procedures and security failures, on Tuesday was dealing with new lapses by its screeners at two major airports. A chef from Hong Kong was charged with unlawful use of a weapon after a United Airlines...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Management Change, United Air Lines, Delta Air Lines, Career and Workplace
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Visitor's Guide
Sun-SentinelSouth Florida is more than the land of sun and surf -- it's also home to 4 million people. The metropolitan region stretches along the Atlantic coast from Jupiter in the northern reaches of Palm Beach County all the way down through the Florida Keys, a...Tags: Key West, Restaurants, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Atlantic Ocean, Fort Lauderdale
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Sept. 11 hijacker raised suspicions at border
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A U.S. border agent said yesterday that Mohammed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, aroused enough suspicion at the border with his polished appearance and a suspicious student visa that he should have been refused...Tags: Interior Policy, Aircraft Hijacking, Migration, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Immigration
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Timeline of the canker epidemic
Staff WritersThe state is battling citrus canker in 12 counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Manatee, Collier, Hendry, Martin, DeSoto, Brevard, Highlands, Monroe and Orange. Control efforts in Hillsborough County have been completed. 1994: Citrus canker declared...Tags: Monroe County (Florida), Florida, Justice System, Hillsborough County, Judges
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Bush pledges money for Everglades
SENTINEL STAFF WRITERPresident Bush came to this vast and endangered refuge of sawgrass and water Monday and proclaimed his commitment to Everglades restoration and "a new environmentalism for the 21st century" -- promises he underscored by appointing a Floridian to head...Tags: Natural Resources, Heart Surgery, Justice System, Judges, Everglades
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