April 26, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 7/7/2014

› Theme parks get creative to help visitors beat heat
Theme parks can't control temperatures that regularly reach into the 90s and sometimes the triple digits, but they have developed ways to keep guests comfortable beyond the water rides that give guests a good soaking.

› Column: Corporations have hijacked education in Florida
When it comes to the important stuff — the promotion of students, the job evaluations of educators, the funding of schools — we place all of our trust somewhere other than teachers and administrators. Namely, in corporations.

350 Bigges Florida Companies

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› One year in, Carnival CEO Arnold Donald is working to right the ship
A year after stepping into the top job at Carnival Corp., Arnold Donald still doesn’t know what he was thinking when he heard the offer.

› Amateur explorers find historic fort in Everglades
Fort Harrell was one of the more obscure outposts, wedged into a rugged swamp area, accessible mainly by boat. No great battles were waged there and no famous generals used it. Yet three amateur explorers, led by a high school chemistry teacher, believe they have found its exact site and consider it an important historic find.

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