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‘Potter’ and ‘Gangster’ made this best of ‘07 list
Courier News - 1. “Don’t Tase me, bro,” shouted by a Florida college student as officers removed him from a speech by Sen. John Kerry, tops this year’s list of most memorable quotes, compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. 2. “I personally believe

Coral Reefs Being Destroyed By Global Warming, Ocean Acidification
All Headline News - A University of South Florida College of Marine Science professor in St. Petersburg thinks that Eakin and his colleagues may be too optimistic. In a telephone interview with AHN on Thursday, Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller, professor of Biogeological

New Dean of College of Journalism and Communications
AM850.com - The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has named a new dean. John Wright, the college’s interim dean since July 2006, was appointed to the position by UF Provost, Janie Fouke. Wright joined the faculty in 1982, working as

Florida college football briefs
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Florida Atlantic defensive back Corey Small has bad memories of last year’s game against Troy. The Trojans beat the Owls 24-17 thanks to three long pass plays of 70, 67 and 54 yards. “It’s hard for me to watch. Those big plays killed us,” Small said

Ask The Governor
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Q Why can’t there be universal health care for Floridians? I am a Florida college student (pre-med major with a 3.5 GPA) whose parents’ income is below the poverty level. I have not been insured for at least eight years. In Cuba, they offer health

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Egyptian College Student Pleads Not Guilty In Explosives Case
First Coast News - TAMPA, FL (AP) — An Egyptian college student has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in an explosives case in Tampa. The suspended University of South Florida engineering student (Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed) is accused of making an Internet

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A good grade for Sorensen: Presidential years were good ones for the
Anderson Independent-Mail - He held leadership and faculty positions at the University of Cambridge, Harvard, the University of Florida and Johns Hopkins medical institutions. He also served as president of the University of Alabama for six years. In addition to being USC s

HAIR-RAISING AGRICULTURE
Bradenton Herald - The product, marketed as SmartGrow, is effective in keeping out weeds, and has even shown signs of increasing yield in crops like tomatoes, according to University of Florida scientists. “It’s really exciting. The first trial was just outstanding

Bowden’s legacy takes big ‘whuppin’
Orlando Sentinel - When the University of Florida was involved in the Tank Black agent scandal, the Gators, too, were coming off a national title. The same with Ohio State during the Maurice Clarett mess and Southern Cal with the Reggie Bush predicament. Fans and

Logic, logistics not always in sync
Herald & Review - Melendez spent 13 years at the University of Florida and followed Zook to Illinois as the head athletic trainer. “Being a trainer was stressful because you’re trying to keep players healthy, and there are responsibilities to the players, the coaches

Former UF runner, now a celebrated author, has taken quite a journey
Gainesville Sun - Parker, a former University of Florida runner, started spending winters in the little house on his brother’s property about four years ago after a quarter-century absence from Alachua County. He had last returned to Gainesville to write “Once a

Friedman Named to New Post At Ledger
The Ledger - An Atlanta native, Friedman is a graduate of the University of Florida. He began his newspaper career in 1975 at the since-closed Tampa Times, which he left to join The Ledger. After serving as city editor overseeing local news coverage for several

Try these water-wise gardening tips
Miami Herald - Pipoly, a Broward County urban horticulture extension agent, and Michael Orfanedes, a commercial extension agent, remind residents that they can continue to install new landscaping and hand-water new plants to establish them. The University of Florida

Past Columns
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - University of Florida wins the BCS football championship and the NCAA basketball tournament. Quite a feat in the ultra-competitive world of big-time college sports. Upbeat so far. 9. Roger Federer wins his fifth straight Wimbledon singles title and

Campaign 2006
American Reporter - Smith represents nine smaller counties in north-central Florida and lives on his family farm in Alachua County, home of the University of Florida and medium-sized Gainesville. He’s an avid Gator who got his law degree from Florida in March 1975 and

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Life’s horrors a common thread in exhibits
Orlando Sentinel - Johnson’s paintings at Creald School of Art, together with Arnold Mesches’ “Coming Attractions” at the University of Central Florida, make a powerful case that political painting is still a lively art. Reflections of inhumanity Johnson’s statement is

Sean Taylor’s Death: A Miami Curse?
Time - Miami’s problems are hardly isolated among large college football programs, but unfortunately these incidents do seem a reflection of [the UM football] legacy,” says noted sports sociologist Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida in

3 state-university presidents rank among 10 highest paid in U.S.
Orlando Sentinel - John Hitt of the University of Central Florida ranked ninth at $684,708. “I would describe it as a fair compensation, based on results,” said Tom Yochum, vice chairman of UCF’s board of trustees and leader of a committee that worked on Hitt’s most

LWR native screens homemade film
Bradenton Herald - As a child, Josh Henson was a mini-Steven Spielberg, making films with his parents’ video camera. Now 21 and a senior in the University of Central Florida’s film school, Henson still has filmmaking fever. Henson’s movie “Moonies,” about a group of

‘I’m fortunate to have lived this long’
St. Petersburg Times - executed plans for irrigation and led his troop and leaders in planting eight trees at the North Pinellas Historical Society Museum to create a memorial tree garden. Peter is a freshman majoring in engineering at the University of Central Florida

New Orleans faces 3-in-10 chance of hurricane winds
PhysOrg - Still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Gulf Coast faces the highest probability of any area in the country of getting struck by hurricane-force winds during the 2006 hurricane season, a University of Central Florida

The New York Times Student Journalism Institute Accepts Twenty
Forbes - Perez, University of Central Florida; Elizabeth Ann Perez, University of Texas, Brownsville; Solange Reyner, University of Miami; Rick A. Rojas, Texas A&M University; Roxana Vasquez, University of Arizona; and James Wagner, University of Virginia.

Big numbers, little attention for UCF’s Smith
FOXSports.com - Smith scored 30 touchdowns and averaged over 185 yards per game for the University of Central Florida. Only three other players in NCAA history have scored more touchdowns in a season; only Sanders has run for more yards. To put it in perspective

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Campaign 2006
American Reporter - For Smith, the battle over Schiavo’s future illustrates the constructive nature of centrist politics, and it prompts a bit of a lecture from the candidate and part-time lawyer who is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida college of law

Oh, Christmas tree! Oh, allergen source?
Minneapolis Star Tribune - We do see the increase of the common cold or sinus infections at the time when families are gathering and so forth,” said Dr. Shih-Wen Huang from the University of Florida College of Medicine. “But there are so many reasons why people get sick during

Infectious Disease Specialists Establish NIH-Funded Program On Fungal
Medical News Today - The physician-researchers come to Pitt from the University of Florida College of Medicine where Dr. Nguyen served as associate professor of medicine and molecular genetics and microbiology, and as chief of the infectious disease section at the VA

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Bankruptcy filings hit Pay By Touch
San Francisco Business Journal - Westfield buys Broward, Westland mall [South Florida] University of Phoenix takes a slice of 1 Front St. [San Francisco] S.F. cruise terminal finds new berth [San Francisco] Pay By Touch CEO and founder John Rogers has filed for personal bankruptcy

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Online Universities In Florida
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Cancer hasn’t dimmed hot dog slinger’s passion for sports, helping
Miami Herald - When Ronnie had been among the shortest high school basketball players in the country, he had been offered a scholarship to Florida College in Tampa. But when it came time for him to leave for school, his father had convinced him to stay in Miami and

Al-Arian Lawyers Brace for New Contempt Charge
New York Sun - Lawyers for a former Florida college professor in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Virginia are bracing for a new criminal contempt charge against their client, Sami Al-Arian , after a Palestinian Arab activist in a similar

Limit growth
Miami Herald - The problem is structural, with Florida college and university boards of trustees appointed by the governor, instead of elected by the people. Florida’s education system will continue to benefit political appointees until voters demand that governing

Forbes: College football teams getting rich
MSNBC - Gatorade sponsors five of the six major college athletic conferences, as well as the NFL, while sister company Pepsi Bottling Group is in its third year of a 10-year, $27 million deal with the University of Florida. College programs have taken other

Tough road ahead for MU defense
Charleston Gazette - Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel rates Smith as the finest Florida college runner he has seen. No joke he ranks Smith ahead of Warrick Dunn, Willis McGahee and Emmitt Smith. I d be skeptical, but I figure Bianchi has seen all of the above

Egypt to hire lawyer for student facing explosives charges
WIS-TV - TAMPA, FL (AP) - A prominent Florida defense lawyer says Egypt’s government is going to hire him to represent a University of South Florida college student charged with making an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate

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Water district purchases land for local project
Bradenton Herald - The book tells the shared college experiences the author had with her grandson, Scott Kale. The author was a member of the May 2007 graduating class of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. All proceeds from Kale’s books go to the Gyumri

Broncos’ Hall Tougher Than Latest Tough Break
Tampa Bay Online - Hall, 25, the greatest running back in the history of the University of South Florida, finally hit his NFL stride, even if he left limping. He was undrafted in 2006. He signed with the Bucs, but didn’t stick. He tried out in so many places he forgot

Excerpts from editorials in Florida newspapers
Florida Times-Union - The University of South Florida has experienced a boon of enrollment in the biology and health science fields. With our great climate, beaches and overall lifestyle, Florida will certainly remain desirable. But without better career opportunities and

Garden club gathers for holiday lunch
St. Petersburg Times - The University of South Florida Suncoast Alzheimer’s and Gerontology Center is sponsoring a program, “Alzheimer’s Disease: What Caregivers Need to Know” on Dec. 13 at the Seven Springs Golf and Country Club on Trophy Boulevard and State Road 54. The

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