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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› UCF, FIT scientists part of OSIRIS-REx mission
If all goes well, a 4,650-pound spacecraft will arrive at asteroid Bennu in 2018 and bring a minimum two-ounce sample back to Earth in 2023. After seven years of designing, building and testing, professors and alumni from Central Florida, including Humberto Campins, are excited to unlock “all the secrets the asteroid has for us.”
› Disney World’s Golden Oak neighborhood draws more permanent residents
The Walt Disney Co. has been surprised by how many home buyers have put down roots at Golden Oak, a gated collection of multimillion dollar mansions first announced in 2010.
› What's up at Duke Energy? Looks like its 2017 electricity rates, soaring above its peers
Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric and Florida Power & Light this week all filed new rate requests, based on their expected costs of fuels used to run their power plants.
› Private nonprofit to take over primary care from health department in Sarasota
When Sarasota County leaders learned from the state last spring that they would have to stop offering primary care services at the county health department, they didn’t take the order lying down.
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