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Published: June 29 1998
GAINESVILLE — Older tourists are ditching the bus tour and ocean cruise stereotypes, opting instead for more active vacations that include sports, shopping and even archaeology, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: June 26 1998
GAINESVILLE—Little Red, a 13-year-old domestic shorthair, went from a plump couch potato to a thin and listless shadow of his former feline self in the span of a few short months.
Published: June 24 1998
GAINESVILLE — In this period of drought and ever-present wildfires, a breath of fresh air is not what it once was — for people or for pets.
Published: June 23 1998
GAINESVILLE — The cab was late, the kids are starving, two suitcases got left behind and now the ticket agent says your flight to see Grandma in Duluth has been overbooked.
Published: June 19 1998
MONTICELLO—Planting wildflowers along Florida highways could save the state millions of dollars by cutting mowing costs and stabilizing roadside soils, says a University of Florida researcher.
Published: June 17 1998
GAINESVILLE — When Fort Lauderdale marine surveyor David Pascoe discusses sailboats with prospective buyers, he can bet they’ll never ask about one major issue.
Published: June 12 1998
GAINESVILLE — For a judge, they’re a curse that just won’t go away.
Published: June 11 1998
GAINESVILLE — Florida’s phosphate industry is good at restoring wetlands destroyed by mining but should step up efforts to fit them into the surrounding landscape so they filter runoff from farms, serve as habitat and help prevent floods.
Published: June 10 1998
GAINESVILLE — An upswing in human shark attacks in 1997 probably signals a return to normal after a welcome slump from the previous year’s all-time high, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: June 18 1998
GAINESVILLE — A University of Florida chemist has borrowed a page from the Betty Crocker cookbook and found a way to use baker’s yeast in making chemical products used in pharmaceuticals and food.
Jon Stewart, an assistant professor of chemistry at UF, says yeast cells similar to those used to make bread and beer can make enzymes needed in experiments that are nonexplosive, nontoxic and biodegradable. The new yeast cells, called designer yeasts, even have a pleasant bonus: They leave labs smelling like fresh-baked bread.
Published: June 30 1998
GAINESVILLE — Although growing pessimism about the national economy caused Florida’s consumer confidence to drop from its record high in May, business conditions remain strong, University of Florida economists report.
Published: June 24 1998
BOYNTON BEACH—When the children at St. Mark Catholic School hit the playground, the biting sand flies in the mangrove marsh next door start smacking their little bloodsucking lips.
Like all their biting kin — mosquitoes, deer flies, horseflies and black flies — sand flies use carbon dioxide to locate a host. So the huffing, puffing children on the playground present a smorgasbord, said University of Florida researcher Jonathan Day.
Published: June 4 1998
GAINESVILLE — Old asphalt scraped off roads does not bleed toxins into groundwater and is safe to use as construction fill, according to tests by University of Florida engineers.
The tests were spurred in part by fears that piles of old asphalt at asphalt plants were allowing toxins into the environment, said Tim Townsend, an assistant professor of environmental engineering sciences.