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Archaeology searches for watery clues
The water is the color of strong coffee. And even with 1,000-watt lights,
visibility is two or three feet or less.
But somewhere in the gloom lie clues to Florida's past.
This fall a new FSU professor and a handfull of students are preparing
to enter this murky world, which can be found in some of Florida's rivers
and sinkholes, and in other places just offshore.
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Art sparkles in FSU's new reading room
The enormous new stained-glass window in the Werkmeister reading room
in Dodd Hall is not depicting saints, but symbols of FSU abound.
The glass fits well in the majestic reading room with heart-pine vaulted
wood ceilings and walls of books. Named the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister
Humanities Reading Room, it honors a couple of humanities giants who have
given the university intellectual leadership and plain money gifts.
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Tudor house keeps professors memory
It won't belong to FSU, but it will celebrate one of the university's
most admired and sometimes controversial professors.
Named Lichgate, the late Laura Jepsen's house is a Tudor cottage on
three acres of woods on High Road in Tallahassee. It is surrounded by apartment
complexes, traffic and general development, but it's a sanctuary from all
that, and likely to stay one.
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Nursestobe try to bring health to damaged
island
There is a place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where 52 babies
die out of every 1,000 born, and the nearest hospital for many is 40 miles
away in the capitol, Majuro.
The locals in the Republic of Marshall Islands breathe balmy ocean breezes,
and it is almost always sunny, but it is no island paradise.
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Recovered from cancer, FSU's Urich is busy
For one of TV's most familiar faces, his FSU football battles 30 years
ago were child's play compared to the battle he has waged this past year.
For now Robert Urich is declaring a cautious victory over the rare form
of cancer that felled him summer before last, suddenly sidelining his career
and life plans.
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FSU professor studies brains all over the world
It may seem remote making speeches in Russia, studying marsupial
brains in Australia and frequenting the world's brain libraries.
But when 10,000 scientists from all over the world are interested, and
home folks with strokes or brain tumors might be helped, grants begin to
show up.
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Copyright ©1997 Florida State Times
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