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<br />MONDAY, JULY 10. 2007 I 58
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<br />Hundreds won't get prepaid-tuition break
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<br />the extra costs to be
<br />charg9d by UF, FSU and
<br />USF next fall unless
<br />parents enrolled in the
<br />program before Jan. 31.
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<br />BY NOAH BIERMAN
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<br />Traveling
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<br />Afghan
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<br />. A Fort laud&rdale
<br />te..n who made the news
<br />with a surprise trip to
<br />Iraq in late 2005 was
<br />heading back from
<br />anoth.., Mideast
<br />expedition.
<br />BY ROBSYN MITCHEll
<br />rm;tcMII~~'MiamiHltrald .;om
<br />Seventeen-year-old Far-
<br />ri, Hassan created a media
<br />(renzy 18 months ago when
<br />he took oif (or Iraq without
<br />his mother's knowledge,
<br />has done il again - this
<br />time to Afghanistan.
<br />Farris. who turns 18 on
<br />July 30, didn't tell his
<br />mother he would be travel-
<br />ing to
<br />Kabul. the
<br />capital of
<br />Afghani-
<br />stan, until
<br />he was
<br />wa.iti og
<br />for his
<br />plane to
<br />de par t FARRIS
<br />(rom Miami International
<br />Airport three weeks ago.
<br />He is expected to return
<br />home Tuesday, said Shatha
<br />Atiya, Farris' mother.
<br />Farris graduated from
<br />Fort Lauderdale's exclusive
<br />Pine Crest Preparatory
<br />School this spring,
<br />"We had just gotten back
<br />from his sister's graduation
<br />from St. George's School of
<br />Medicine in New York:'
<br />Atiya said. "He called me
<br />from the airport and has
<br />caUed every day since he
<br />leJl,"
<br />In December 2005, Far-
<br />ris took ofi for Kuwait City
<br />alone and e-mailed his par-
<br />ents when he'd arrived. His
<br />father, Dr. Redha Hassan,
<br />arranged for him to stay
<br />with friends in Beirut
<br />before he wenl to Baghdad,
<br />Aiter a tumultuous stay,
<br />including near-kidnappings,
<br />he stopped by the Associ-
<br />ated Press of lice, which
<br />alerted the U.S, embassy
<br />and got him shipped home,
<br />In the following weeks,
<br />Farris ducked media
<br />attempts to interview him
<br />until he finally agreed to an
<br />MSNBC intervies,
<br />He said he had gone to
<br />Iraq to hetter understand
<br />the people of the country
<br />where his parents emi-
<br />grated from 26 years ear-
<br />lier,
<br />This time around, Farris
<br />went to Afghanistan on a
<br />mission to study the prog-
<br />ress o( wumen's rights
<br />since the fall of the Taliban
<br />regime, alld the plight (J(
<br />impoverished street kids.
<br />He talked to a number of
<br />women politicians in the
<br />,.'ountry and told his mother
<br />he was impressed by how
<br />far they had come ill so lit-
<br />tle time. Atiya said Farris is
<br />working on a projecl to
<br />build a school for the girled
<br />ill Afghanistan.
<br />"I think for a teenager to
<br />think so big and aC'compli!ih
<br />so much is truly something
<br />to be proud 0(," she said.
<br />"He has opened a new road
<br />for us to start and Iry 10
<br />make a difference in the
<br />world:'
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<br />thousand~ 01 parents who
<br />enrolled after that will be sub.
<br />ject to a new slate law that
<br />allows the University of F1or"
<br />ida, Florida State and the Uni-
<br />versity of South Florida to
<br />begin charging an escillating
<br />tuition premium beginning in
<br />(all 2008 that will eventually
<br />increase tuition by about
<br />SI,OOO a year,
<br />The law appeared to open
<br />a window of opportunity to
<br />avoid the increase, and left
<br />some p:lfents confused,
<br />The law stated thai parents
<br />enrolled in the program by
<br />Ju]y I would not be subject to
<br />the addilional charges, Gov.
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<br />Charlie Crist sijl:ned Ihe Ie},>is-
<br />lation June 27, leading some
<br />parents to believe Ihp.y had
<br />three days to sign up and
<br />avoid the premium,
<br />Virginia Trujillo signed up
<br />June 28 on hehalf oi h(~r
<br />7-month-old son: after read-
<br />ing about the new law in a
<br />Miami Herald article. An
<br />additional37S parents around
<br />Florida also signed up
<br />betwecn JuO(~ 27 and July 1,
<br />according- to prepaid college
<br />plan statistics, That is lm
<br />increase o( 156 (rolD the same
<br />period last year,
<br />But Trujillo and others
<br />were surprised to learn they
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<br />would nol be COllsidered
<br />enrolled. Instead, prepaid
<br />Ililkials consider such appli-
<br />cations "pending" until the
<br />enrollment p(~rilJd bq~ins
<br />again in the ia11. By thcn, par-
<br />t'tlts will have to pay extra if
<br />their children attend Ufo., FSU
<br />or USF in {utme y~ars.
<br />"We have like an open
<br />enrollment period every year,
<br />and it ended on Jan. 31," said
<br />Bill Nichols, tht: prepaid pro.
<br />gram's director of operations.
<br />Nichols said the prepaid
<br />program readjusts costs
<br />yearly, based on actuarial
<br />tables, to determine how
<br />mach parents will have to
<br />
<br />invest 10 mak(, sure they are
<br />locked in {or their children's
<br />tuition ilt loday's price~. Tht~
<br />program does not have year.
<br />round t~llrollment. hUI it
<br />accepts applicatiom at any
<br />time and applit:s them to thc
<br />next enrollment period, ,)DCe
<br />prices are adjusted.
<br />Since this year's enroll"
<br />ment period ended, 7.402
<br />families have submitted appli-
<br />cations, an increase of about
<br />600 irom this time last year.
<br />The program openHcs
<br />independently of public uni.
<br />versities, 50 college presi.
<br />dents are uot going to inter.
<br />vene. They (ought to raist~
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<br />tuition al their schools
<br />bcJievin~ the state's 10"";
<br />tuition has reduced quality.
<br />The program guarantees that
<br />luition increas~s will not
<br />aiicel existing prepaid COIl-
<br />llacts,
<br />"Legally, we didn't have to
<br />exempt pno'paid, but politi-
<br />cally. the Legislature
<br />insisted," said Bernard
<br />Machen, president of the Uni-
<br />versity o( Florida.
<br />The board that oversees
<br />the prepaid plan is expected
<br />to design an account to cover
<br />the higher costs at UF, FSU
<br />and USF, but it has not
<br />annount~~d detail~.
<br />
<br />HAULOVER BEACH
<br />76-year-old woman saved
<br />from drowning in ocean
<br />
<br />Swimmers, lifeguards and
<br />paramedics acted swiftly to
<br />save a 76-year-old woman
<br />irom drowning offHaulover
<br />Reach Sunday aiternoon.
<br />Peuple in the Clc("an near
<br />108th Street and Col1illS Ave-
<br />nue alerted Iiieguards about
<br />4 p.IIL to 11 woman strugglinR
<br />in the water, aecordin{.': to
<br />
<br />Miami'Dade fire rescue Lt,
<br />Ead... Ballester.
<br />l.ifeguards jumped in and
<br />pulled the woman to shore.
<br />She was in cardiac arrest,
<br />and the lifcguard~ began
<br />CPR, Rallester said. Within
<br />three minutcs, paramedics
<br />arrived ilnd restored the
<br />woman's pulse, he said.
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<br />CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEAC~ II
<br />NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO
<br />CONSIDER ADOPTION OF NON
<br />VALOREM ASSESSMENT ROLL AND
<br />LEVY OF NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL
<br />ASSESSMENTS FOR ATLANTIC ISLE
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<br />Notice is hereby given thai the City Commission ollhe City 01
<br />Sunny Isles Beach will conduct a public hearing to consider
<br />imposing a Special Assessment for cooslruction or sanitary sewer
<br />laterals and associated improvements, including associated road
<br />restoration, 10 serve the Atlantic Isle residential neighbor1100d,
<br />which is deplete<! as lt1e benefited area in the map below. Owners
<br />01 property 10 be assessed or any olher persons inleresled may
<br />appear belore the City Commission and be heard as to the
<br />advisability or the proposed improvements, the cost of Ihe
<br />improvements, the manner or payment for the improvements, and
<br />the amount to be assessed against each benefited property. The
<br />proposed schedule 01 the assessment indudes up 10 twenty-rrve
<br />(25) annual installments to iodude accrued intereslcosts, as more
<br />specifically described in the Preliminary Assessment Methoclology
<br />Report and the Preliminary Assessment Roll. Adoptiofl of the F'maf
<br />Atlantic Isle Special Assessment Roll shall be the final adjudication
<br />of the amounl of the assessment and manner of apportionment
<br />unless steps are initiated in a court of competent jurisdiction
<br />within 30 days 01 action by the Oty Commission, and the Special
<br />Assessment imposed on each parcel will attach 10 the property
<br />and shall, until paid, constitute a lien on the properly. The amount
<br />proposed to be assessed to each benefiled parcel may be
<br />identified Irom documents available at Ihe City Clerk's Office
<br />Upon completion 01 the improvements, the City may bill either by
<br />dIrect mailing 01 bills 10 Ihe assessed proper1les Of may collect the
<br />special assessments on the annual ad valorem taxbilf.
<br />
<br />WATER SOUNDS: Sarah Brunner, right. and Bob Rowand jam during the Underwater
<br />Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Big Pine Key
<br />
<br />New songs, opera played
<br />at underwater 111usic show
<br />
<br />II! An annual radio
<br />station's underwate,
<br />broadcast drew more than
<br />500 divers, who listened
<br />to some rock classics and
<br />environmental messages.
<br />
<br />BIG PINE KEY - (AP) -
<br />More than 500 scuba divers
<br />and snorkelers listened to a
<br />loc.11 radio station's (our-hour
<br />broadcast Saturday, piped in
<br />beneath the sea in the Florida
<br />Keys National Marine Sanctu-
<br />ary.
<br />Musical selections at the
<br />
<br />annual Underwater Music
<br />Festiva.l included The Beatles'
<br />Yellow Submarine and Jimmy
<br />BuffeU'sFiru,
<br />This year, two local musi-
<br />dans - singing in the sta-
<br />tion's studio - premiered
<br />songs, and opera was added
<br />to the program for thl~ {irst
<br />time.
<br />"We even played Song.~ of
<br />the Humpback Whale," said
<br />festival organizer Bill Becker.
<br />"But thankfully, no whales
<br />CaIDe."
<br />Some divers wore eos-
<br />
<br />tumes and imitated musiciam
<br />including Elton John, Sammy
<br />Hagar and Sonny and Ch(~r,
<br />"I think it's totally unique,"
<br />said Louise Trewnvas, of Lon.
<br />don. "Not only do you have
<br />this amazing spectacle, you
<br />have al.l the iantastic {ish that
<br />come to listen and take part in
<br />the festival:'
<br />The event at Looe Key rcef
<br />also had a serious side. Public
<br />service announcements about
<br />coral reef preservation were
<br />played between musical
<br />self.'1:tiollS.
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