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The St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald and Bay News 9 conducted a poll of 800 registered voters to find out how they feel about the presidential candidates and Amendment 1. Check out the full results at politics.tampabay.com. Wednesday's top 5 Besides popular blogs like This Just In and The Buzz, here are the stories that www.tampabay.com readers wanted to see Wednesday. 1. Man says women took him for $200K 2. Deputies overlooked shooting victim 3. Charge: $7.7M in fraud scheme 4. Missing cat found in luggage 5. State universities fear brain drain Fallen stars Heath Ledger's death at age 28 shocks us and seems rare compared with the number of women who died young.
Geelong's birthrate soars after Cats win flag
Those junior Cats would have been conceived during and after celebrations of the 2007 flag. "There were some thrilling games during the month of September, so I am sure that got everybody's heart racing," Geelong Football Club spokesman Kevin Diggerson said. "It seems some people have gone out and got memorabilia like a new tattoo, or bought a DVD of the game, but others have taken it to the next level - and what better way to celebrate the premiership (than) with a new baby?" he said. Rebecca Dew, 26, is just one of the hundreds of women in Geelong who are having babies after a fruitful September. "I have been a Geelong fan since I was five when my Aunty Merrilyn first started taking me to the games," Mrs Dew said. "It was a great year for the club and then after the Grand Final I found out I was pregnant - what a bonus!" She and her husband, Ryan, 27, who works as an apprentice motor mechanic at Ford, conceived their first child in early September.
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire
When, in July 1980, he ascended from V-P to presidency, following the death of his predecessor, his leadership kept Botswana on the path of remarkable post-independence economic growth rate of some 10 per cent per annum one of the highest in the world. That was unlike the situation in most of post-colonial Africa where the second generation of leaders drove their countries to ruins, if the founding the fathers had not done that already. Most of Botswanas growth came from diamonds, the nations leading export earner. It is one of the African countries where mineral wealth has not caused more pain than joy. Asked during one of his lectures why Botswana essentially escaped the resource curse that has affected many African countries, Masire had four reasons.
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