http://www.miamiherald.com/540/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/540/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Issues & Ideas 60 Mon, 12 May 2008 04:53:02 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527355.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527355.html Sun, 11 May 2008 00:01 EDT In 2006, Israeli director Eytan Fox produced The Bubble, a provocative film about young Tel Aviv roommates trying unsuccessfully to carve out a rewarding life for themselves as violent realities gradually close in on them. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527356.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527356.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT SUNFLOWER, Miss. -- Joaquin Burse wants to go to Harvard and be a laser tech. You might think that's a lofty goal. Truth is, you have no idea how lofty it is. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527357.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527357.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT When Israel's independence was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, as leaders of the nascent state sang Hatikva (Hope), few could have imagined the vibrant state that exists today. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527358.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/527358.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their ''superlabs'' to fill the void. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518865.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT Below is an excerpt from ''Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town'' ($24.95, HarperCollins/Amistad), by Miami Herald journalist Ronnie Greene, to be released Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518863.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT In this deeply rooted village in Southwest Florida, it's not unusual to find generations of the same family living doors apart. Now these lifelong settlers are bracing for their hamlet to die. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518874.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518874.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT The groundwater here is poisoned with a liquid degreaser that is colorless and cancer-causing. Yet to date, a full study has not been launched to document cancer's spread throughout Tallevast. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518864.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518864.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT My cousin thinks Jeremiah Wright walks on water. He is a minister, my cousin, and for years, whenever I've visited him in Chicago, he has asked the same question: Have I ever attended one of Rev. Wright's services? When I said no, he would lecture me on the wonderfulness of Wright, the innovative ministries he has started, the liberation theology he preaches. I owed it to myself, my cousin would say, to hear him speak. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518871.html Sat, 03 May 2008 20:12 EDT INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Business, meaning research by historians and nourishment for history hobbyists, is brisk at the Harry S. Truman Library on this 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the desegregation of the armed services, recognition of the state of Israel and the improbable election of the president responsible for many momentous policies. The library is a place, and now is a time, to ponder the transformation Truman wrought in the presidency and the Constitution, and why that transformation... http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518862.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518862.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT If Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright were white, he'd probably have his own church show on television. Maybe even his own network. He could promise fantastic miracles that never come true and predict terrible disasters that never happen, and he could fleece millions of dollars from poor, gullible viewers. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509885.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT The different photographs that The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald ran this week of a Vietnamese girl with a massive facial tumor raise questions of when a picture is exploitive of its subject or offensive to us as readers. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509886.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Twenty-one years ago, T.D. Allman's book Miami: City of the Future was on the best-seller list for South Florida. Miami Herald reporter Mary Voboril wrote that Allman originally wanted to call his book Fantasy's Child, but instead the title was drawn from the 1983 Esquire magazine piece that inspired the book. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509884.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509884.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Twelve years ago, the guns in Bosnia fell silent after a war that killed at least 100,000 people and left more than two million homeless. Since then, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement has often been suggested as a model for other peace efforts in countries with deep ethnic or religious differences. Bosnia's ''federalism'' structure has been cited -- especially by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and former Council on Foreign Relations President Les Gelb -- as a possible model... http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509887.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509887.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT LEONARD PITTS JR. lpitts@miamiherald.com James Lawson is out of step with modern Christianity. Take gay marriage. Speaking in support of a proposed state constitutional ban on same sex unions, one Rev. Hayes Wicker of First Baptist Church in Naples, Fla., was recently quoted by The Naples Daily News as saying, ``This is a tremendous social crisis, greater even than the issue of slavery.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509904.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT People were surprised when I called my book Miami: City of the Future. In the aftermath of the Marielito invasion and the Liberty City riots, the conventional wisdom was that Miami was finished -- ''Paradise Lost,'' ''not really a part of America anymore.'' I had come to a different judgment, that Miami was a harbinger of the Americas to come. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509905.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Has it really been over 20 years since Miami: City of the Future was published? T.D. Allman's book, which became a bestseller, arrived here about the same time I did. And while I loved his premise, I wasn't sure it was valid. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509907.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Determining the tax dollars that South Florida sends to state government and the state spending it gets in return was a time-consuming task -- something that Tallahassee insiders compared to searching for the Holy Grail. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509908.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT As the U.S. economy heads south, Mexicans may have to head north. That's the fear of many workers here, where the slowdown in the United States already has cut production at manufacturing plants whose output is largely sold in the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/474766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/474766.html Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:25 EDT Martin Luther King's final campaign in Memphis was a march into a violent maelstrom of hatred and righteous defiance. Share your thoughts below on our coverage of the anniversary of the assassination and see what other readers are saying. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/385095.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/385095.html Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:01 EST All bets are off in the Republican presidential primary. Frontrunners become underdogs, longshots become contenders, and the winner at the end of the race may come down to the candidate with the best timing.