NOVEMBER 1999
MARK BIRD
FSU'S NEW MAGNET IS THE BIGGEST EVER
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What's 22 feet tall, weighs 34 tons and has world-wide attention?
It's not Godzilla. It's a monster-sized magnet, the latest addition
to FSU's Magnet Lab.
Called the "45-T Hybrid," the $14-million magnet is a combination of two types of magnet designs which, when fully operational, will together generate a world-record DC magnetic field of at least 45 tesla (T) - the standard measure of the strength of a magnetic field.
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HARRY SINGLETARY
FLORIDA PRISONS CHIEF MOVES INTO CLASSROOM
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Harry Singletary has been in one spotlight or another most of his life.
At school, he was an all-star basketball player - the first
black to integrate his team - and such a talent that his college
retired his number when he left.
At work, he became the secretary of Florida's Department of Corrections
- the first black to head the prison system - and expanded it
under intense media scrutiny to double its size.
And this year, bright lights are focused on Singletary still; but this time it's the bright lights of the classroom where he is Florida State's newest criminology instructor.
ACCURATE FORECASTS CAN SAVE LIVES AND FORTUNES
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The day before hurricane Floyd blasted North Carolina, Susan
Schiller, a producer from CBS Evening News, was on the phone
to ask FSU meteorologists where Floyd was going to make landfall.
The FSU researchers mentioned Wilmington, N.C., and the next
day, Dan Rather was on a plane to Wilmington, just a few miles
north of where Floyd hit land. That night, people across the
country saw his broadcast from that city.
The team at FSU's Real Time Hurricane Forecast Center had predicted, five days before Floyd landed, that it would miss Florida and hit the southeastern part of North Carolina, while other forecasters predicted the storm would hit the east coast of Florida.
TEN FLORIDA SHERIFFS ARE FSU GRADUATES
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Among Florida's 67 sheriffs, 25 are not college graduates. But the next biggest group is the FSU contingent, whose numbers and prominence suggest that Florida State's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice is having the impact it wants - professionalizing the work of law enforcement, particularly the intensely political and powerful job of sheriff.
Ten Florida sheriffs are FSU grads, nine from the School of Criminology and one from the College of Law.
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Werner Baum and Richard Smith
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A DANCE OF DIVERSE VIEWS
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The first Hoffman Symposium, an examination of the liberal arts issues in the modern political climate, will bring two of America's best known political orators - former U.S. Congresswoman Pat Schroeder and political satirist Arianna Huffington - to the same stage at FSU Jan. 22.