American Airlines Announces Additional Flight to Florida's Capital.
Additional Nonstop Service on American Eagle From Miami to Tallahassee, Fla., begins March 2 MIAMI, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines announced today that its regional affiliate, American Eagle, will add a third flight between Miami International Airport (MIA) and Tallahassee, Fla. (TLH), beginning March 2, 2009....

He fought the wars and the wars won.
What George W. Bush loved best about his job was being a war president. Playing war, that is, as opposed to making war like a grown-up. Remember him strutting onto that carrier in his little flight jacket? You never saw Eisenhower, a real general, playing out his martial fantasies...

Peaceful elections.
GRENADA'S July general elections were "orderly and peaceful," and anxieties expressed beforehand by various participants in the process "proved unfounded," OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin told the Permanent Council. The National Democratic Congress, led by Tillman Thomas, won eleven of the fifteen parliamentary seats at...

What's the matter with Thomas Frank?
[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, 384 pages] Thomas Frank's Latest philippic is lively and well-written and scores a number of direct hits on the frauds who moved to Washington in the name of shrinking government and restoring traditional morality but never found their...

Seafloor seismometers--rescued and to the rescue: buoy system atop underwater volcano offers early warnings of eruptions.
A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution installed a novel underwater earthquake-monitoring system atop Kick'em Jenny, an active volcano just off the north coast of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea. The new Real Time Offshore Seismic Station--deployed May 6, 2007, and being tested for the first time--sensitively...

Negros Oriental is among world's best islands to live on.
Negros Oriental, and its capital Dumaguete, lives up to its moniker "the city of gentle people" as US-based Islands magazine listed it as one of the 20 best islands to live on. The province joins the list of other exotic addresses such as the Grand Cayman, Gozo in Malta,...

Caribbean libraries in the 21st century; changes, challenges, and choices.
9781573873017 Caribbean libraries in the 21st century; changes, challenges, and choices. Ed. by Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick. Information Today, Inc. 2007 387 pages $49.50 Hardcover Z753 For information professionals, students,...

Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86.
* Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86. In the sun/rain/sun of the lesser Antilles, history can seem as if it's passing by: "There the past is an infinite Sunday," as Derek Walcott put it. History visited big-time in 1979...

Latin America's terrible two: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez constitute an axis of evil.
In military terms, the Western Hemisphere is the strategic rear area of the United States. The U.S. needs a secure and prosperous hemisphere not only to ensure a peaceful neighborhood in which to live, but also to be able to project its power to the farthest reaches of the...

20 years ago today ... Geographical Magazine, December 1983.
The final Issue of Geographical for 1983 reflects the political and economic upheaval of its time. Two articles focus on political change in the Caribbean, after St Kitts and Nevis gained independence from Britain m September, and US forces invaded Grenada in October. Twenty years ago, feats were also...