#florida

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along. ↗

— Brit Hume

#available #brought #came #development #either

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#even #florida #harmony #i #neck

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#claimed #even #execute #florida #hope

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. ↗

— Jay Leno

#asked #baseball #because #during #fact

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. ↗

— Lee Majors

#children #down #florida #got #i

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#child #crocodiles #first #florida #jigsaw

So I enrolled at the University of North Florida, which, as you can imagine, is in north Florida. That’s about all I have to say about the school itself, as it’s so bland that if it were a food it would be oatmeal. Cold oatmeal. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#enroll #oatmeal #school #university #university-of-north-florida

The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjorie Stoneman Douglas

#florida #nature #river-of-grass #nature