| Discovering Key West's quaint charms and tropical trends
Key West never sought to be different. But by birthright, it simply was: a remote village with a defiant attitude and free spirit that attracted privateers, pirates, entrepreneurs, smugglers, craftsmen, pioneers, poets and writers.
It remains a place tolerant of idiosyncrasy. A place in which a soul can drop out, blend in or stand above. One that appreciates the old ways, revels in its difference and largely lets people be what they want to be.
Through the years, the dowdy little settlement that lured the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams and Elizabeth Bishop has become a dame that swaggers in 4-inch heels. She's a little Divine, a little Marie Osmond; at once bawdy and gracious, overbearing and sweet, party girl and society maven. She's equal parts Kmart and Neiman Marcus, Johnny Walker Red and Diet Coke, Park Avenue and Division Street.
A WHITE WINTER: SNOW REACHES SEA LEVEL, NO PROBLEMS REPORTED
Brookings-Harbor residents woke up to a cold, white world Monday morning when, for the first time this year, a thin blanket of snow covered the tops of restaurants, motels and gas stations in town. "It's unusual to get snow all the way down to the coast," National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Jay Stockton said. "I've seen it happen only once every few years." While kids walked to school two hours late due to a snow delay mostly because school buses were unable to make it up slick roads outside city limits residents living about 1,000 feet above sea level hunkered down for more of the white stuff. "We probably had about 4 to 5 inches up here on Carpenterville Road," Christine Stallard, public affairs director for Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative (CCEC), said. "I've never seen anything like it, and my neighbors are saying the same thing." Students at Upper Chetco Charter School (UCCS) on the North Bank Chetco River Road spent recess playing in the snow and covering the lawn outside the school with snowmen.
LIZ PARKER--‘Baby, you can drive my car’
Ortega says he is encouraging foreign investment and U.S. aid but it is the company he keeps that makes U.S. officials squirm.Chavez, Latin America’s most vocal critic of U.S. policies, for instance, has been a frequent visitor to his poor northern cousin in Central America, making many promises that he has not yet kept.Not only has Chavez been a welcomed and frequent guest but in a recent move Iranians are now free to travel to Nicaragua without visas, probably, U.S. observers say, at Chavez’s instigation.Huge pink billboards line Managua roadways featuring the black-mustachioed Ortega exhorting the masses with calls for power and democracy. They are always bright pink and they are all signed in black handwriting script "Daniel," to underscore his populist approach.One such billboard of an open-collared Ortega, smiling broadly with his fist raised in a power salute, peers right over the compound walls of the massive two-month-old U.S.
UPI NewsTrack Business
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S stock indexes wound up losing ground Thursday on concerns over both inflation and economic growth.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 120.96 points, or 0.91 percent, to close at 13,110.05. The Nasdaq composite was down 25.81, or 0.98 percent, at 2,618.51. The S&P 500 Index was down 19.43, or 1.32 percent, at 1,451.15.
The volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 1.4 billion shares traded, with 717 shares advancing and 2,554 declining.
The dollar was mixed. The euro traded at $1.4619 from 1.4646 late Wednesday, while the dollar traded at 110.35 yen from 111.43.
Bonds rose. The benchmark 10-year note was up 23/32 to yield 4.165 percent.
Robust inventory keeps oil prices down
NEW YORK, Nov.
Portsmouth Preview
Which players have most impressed this season? Sean Davis, probably, who wasn't even getting a game pre-season. David James has been absolutely outstanding, too. Of course, if he makes one mistake, it's all over the papers. It's unbelievably tedious - if it wasn't such a good nickname, it would have been well forgotten by now, I'm sure. I think he's cost us one goal this season, two at the most. God knows how many he's kept out. Glen Johnson and Niko Kranjcar have also been good. If Niko had any pace, he'd be dynamite. And Kanu has as good a touch as anyone I've ever seen in a royal blue shirt. And who have been the biggest disappointments? You'd have to say Nugent, but he hasn't really had a decent run. And, when he has been there, he's either missed chronic open goals or fallen over in giddiness (as he did against United at Fratton).
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