Trade issues with Cuba, particularly if the U.S. trade embargo is lifted, will be the focus of a May 29 panel discussion in Tampa among the director of the Port of Tampa and scholars from the University of Florida and Tulane University. ...more

May 7, 2009

For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land. ...more

September 7, 2008

"The Physics of Christianity" by Frank J. Tipler (Doubleday, $15.95) ...more

August 24, 2008

My Newcomb pottery vase belonged to my grandmother. A friend of mine, who was enrolled in the pottery program at Tulane University in New Orleans, told me she believes it was made by Sadie Irvine. ...more

February 16, 2008

SEBRING — Thousands of children in northern Uganda are living anything but a normal life, but Sebring High School students alerted to the dire situation are serious about making a difference. Spearhead by a group of Freshman Foundation students, the school has partnered with the Schools for Schools program with a goal to raise $10,000 to help the Ugandan children. Freshman Foundation teachers showed videos about the Ugandan unrest in their classrooms last month, which made an impact on the freshmen. "The video is what really caught our attention," freshman Suzannah Beiner said Wednesday. "It was really touching – what the kids went through just because they wanted to go to school ... their plight was just so extraordinary that stuff like that could be going on in this day and age." ...more

November 9, 2007