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A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND A WEEK IN TALLAHASSEE
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Florida State and other organizers of Tallahassee's first arts festival were faced with the Herculean task of trying to capture the attention of a national community through words, art, illustration and music - and sustain it.
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WARDEN FROM FSU IS TOUGH AND SMART
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Florida State and other organizers of Tallahassee's first arts festival were faced with the Herculean task of trying to capture the attention of a national community through words, art, illustration and music - and sustain it.
MEDICINE, PUBLIC WORKS, PAINTING AND GENEROSITY
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Dr. Charlotte Maguire's philosophy is summed up by the book on her chairside table: "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff." It's her attention to the bigger stuff of life that has made this versatile woman the success she is today.
TAXOL STRANGLES PROTEIN AND CANCER CELLS SELF-DESTRUCT
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Florida State Biophysicist Lee Makowski calls it "programmed cell death." It will give scientists new insights on exactly how the anti-cancer drug, Taxol, kills tumor cells. What it may do ultimately is aid researchers in developing more advanced cancer-fighting drugs.
PROFESSOR TEACHES COURAGE IN PANAMA
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CATHEDRAL PLAZA, THE OLD PART OF PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - Citizens file past a card table set up opposite the church, bending to add their signatures to the petition. A sturdy man in shirt sleeves stands nearby, shaking hands, accepting encouragement, nodding gravely as a woman tells him why his city and country need him, aiming stiletto wit at the corrupt office holders infesting both. Dr. Miguel Antonio Bernal is running for mayor of the oldest city on the mainland of the Americas.
BUSY LAWYERS CAN GO BACK TO SCHOOL ON INTERNET
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When you're one of the lead attorneys in the state's antitrust case against Microsoft, squeezing in those pesky, but necessary, continuing legal education courses can be all but impossible. But that didn't stop Florida Assistant Attorney General Peter H. Williams from earning five credit hours recently at his own pace, on his own computer, in the privacy of his own home.