HOMELESS
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
This journalist gets a rare view of
Christmas inside a homeless camp, where the alcohol flows, democracy
thrives, and true generosity abounds.
DOCTORS IN EXILE
Faced with threats, prison or worse just
for practicing medicine, these doctors fled their home countries
legally and are now fighting to survive and pur their training to work.
But when you're an immigrant in America, you start at the bottom.
AMERICAN
IDOL EXPERIENCE
After nearly two years in the making,
Disneyworld
debuts its rendition of the television phenomenon American
Idol. Times' Music Critic Sean Daly is your sneek-peek tour guide.
A
PIRATE'S TRANSFORMATION
A Gasparilla pirate describes his
transformation from fine, upstanding citizen, into a drunken, ruthless,
invader of Tampa Bay during the annual festival's reenactment of the
storied event.
BRAIN STORM
Seizures, as many as 40 per day, were a
decades-old fact of life for James Huffman. Then the doctors told him
they might have a cure, if he would let them perform a dangerous
procedure, cutting into his brain.
SURROGATE MOTHER
After they had endured three stillbirths,
Shirley and her husband try using a surrogate mother, Juliet. This
photo essay was shot for a magazine in Norway, where surrogacy is
illegal and controversial.
HANDS OF TIME
Alzheimer's
patients, struggling to recall events from their early years, recover
memories while posing for portraits holding items from their past.
ROLLING BACK TIME
To walk into the Crystal Springs
Roller Rink is to step into 1939, the year it was opened: no fancy
music
system, no air conditioning and no misbehaving. Just a good night out.
FAIR VOICES
The
youth exhibiting livestock at this year's Florida State Fair obviously
love their charges. They share their thoughts on what it takes to take
home a ribbon.
ARCHITECTURE OF JOY
The Architect Morris Lapidus
epitomizes MIMO design. Though his work faces an uncertain future, you
can still find remnants of his original vision in historic Miami Beach.
FURLOUGH SO SWEET, SO SHORT
A soldier home from Iraq finds the war has left deep marks, so the rest does him well. But there's always that last day, creeping closer.
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BOG HEAVEN
Every Saturday, hundreds make a pilgrimage to Pasco County to play in the mud. Their toys: four-wheel-drive pickups. Their playground: a pit as big as a football field.
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