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April 20, 2003
Serving beyond their number
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[Times photo: Cherie Diez]
The recruiters' pitch -- education, travel, benefits -- is a powerful lure for black women, who flock to the military.
Mary Jo Melone: Fun new toy, or 4-wheeled window into the psyche?
It is not true that cars are symbolically important only to men.

Top stories
Blue crabs melt away
Biologists don't know what's causing the decline, which has commercial crabbers fearing for their livelihood.

Metro Week in Review: Smoke-free park on city wish list
OLDSMAR -- The great outdoors may soon be smoke-free, at least at Bicentennial Park in Oldsmar.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Man rediscovers Christian faith in birthplace of Islam
  • Instead of a coop, he got a bird ban
  • Rio Vista Trail could link Weedon Island
  • Girls Inc. losing a third of its budget
  • Pregnant firefighter claims discrimination
  • Budget woes may bury Gulf Boulevard plan
  • An annexation hot potato withers, dies
  • Mideast military news
  • Neighborhood notebook: Jungle Terrace residents victorious in zoning fight
  • Relay for Life walk takes cancer in stride
  • Obituary: Naomi C. Hardesty, rescued with dog
  • Teacher running around Europe -- really running
  • Indian Rocks tires of boxy look in new buildings
  • On the Town: 5 businesswomen join Pinellas hall of fame
  • Eight women to work in D.C.'s Avon Walk
  • Channel swimmer takes on Tampa Bay
  • Keswick Christian picks new leader
  • CONA backs chief's police plan
  • Letters: Taxed to death for empire-building
  • Working: A day on the job in south Pinellas County
  • Midtown plan draws wishes, concerns
  • Thriving in Midtown
  • Business headlines: Tourtelot expanding its office

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Clearwater, an arts destination? Why not?
  • Parkgoers balk at idea of fees
  • U.S. 19 drivers look for place to turn
  • Dunedin business cuts cost of drugs
  • Eckerd College fills AD position with Michigan candidate
  • Editorial: Security breach must stir airport into action
  • Letters: Trees are no match for the Soccer Lobby

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Playwright finds the heritage is the thing

  • North of Tampa
  • Zoning: Subdivision again requested on Bern's harvest site
  • Toll tales come from booth dwellers
  • Holding onto old Florida
  • Carrollwood: Church considers community park for 2004 carnival
  • Tiny church school makes room for growth
  • What? There was life before TV?
  • School culinary team racks up victories
  • Open & Shut
  • New Tampa: A long way from ideal
  • New Tampa: Cross Creek commuters can expect a smoother ride
  • Milestones
  • Carrollwood: Community deputies keep jobs
  • Week in Review
  • Neighborhood Notebook: Sickles, HCC offer summer drafting class
  • Prep Notebook: Chamberlain softball heads to district
  • Sports Digest: Westchase race is school fundraiser

  • News of Florida
  • Coral Gables might add SUVs, mini-vans to parking ordinance
  • Amid impasses, clock ticks on session's fate
  • Around the state: 10 whales still stranded off Keys
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