Beach Parking
In a special workshop this week, a nationally known parking consultant said he couldn’t believe Jacksonville Beach doesn’t charge for parking. He said it was the only city to which he’d ever been that had free parking so close to the beach. And he’s correct. St. Augustine, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Cocoa Beach, New Smyrna, Daytona… [...]
Hybrid for People Who Can Afford Gas
In its quest to “minimize emissions and maximize mileage,” Lexus is offering its first 4-cylinder econocar for the well-heeled, the 2010 HS250h. The entry-level sedan joins the RX450h crossover and GS450h and LS600h sedans in the hybrid fraternity to give Lexus a full-range of vehicles as fuel-economy laws tighten. HS stands for “harmonious sedan” in [...]
Hopes Raised for Sickle Cell Cure
CINCINNATI – Kameron Kinebrew, 12, spent a month hooked to a morphine pump to control the sickle-cell anemia pain, something he compared to “a couple of knives stabbing you in your back, over and over.” His twin brother, Kaleb, rattles off pain management techniques without thinking: Slow breathing, plenty of fluids, distraction. “We know what [...]
To Lose a War
While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, “death panels,” the “public option” and racism’s role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. What happens in Afghanistan might. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has done his duty. He has bluntly [...]
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