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SeaWorld’s third-quarter
earnings fell 28 percent
from a year earlier as the
theme parks battle negative
publicity surrounding the
treatment of killer whales
documented in the movie
Blackfish. Business, 4B
Movies to return
to Tyrone Square
A Cobb Luxury10 Theatre,
with full-service restaurant
and bar, is expected to open
by early 2016. Local,1B
The airport secured a
nonstop flight it hopes
can spur the economy.
Bondi downplays
lobbyist issue
The attorney general says
relationships with Washington corporate lobbyists don’t
interfere with her official
duties. Local,1B
BY JAMAL THALJI
Times Staff Writer
Theater texting
claim in question
A Pasco Sheriff’s Office
report casts doubt on the
narrative that Chad Oulson was texting about his
daughter before he was shot
in a movie theater. Local,1B
Apsco chain files
under Chapter 11
Apsco Appliance Centers,
a Clearwater-based chain,
has locations in Pinellas
County. Business, 4B
Obamacare battle
has new fodder
An economist’s assertion
that the health care legislation passed in part because
of the “stupidity of the
American voter” is fuel for
the GOP. Nation, 2A
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This image, provided by the European Space Agency, was taken by the Philae lander during its descent to the
surface of comet 67P/CG. The landing site is in the foreground.
Boos rain down
on Bucs’ punter
While European scientists waited, the Philae bounced
once — and landed on a comet 300 million miles away.
Michael Koenen may rank
last among NFL punters, but
he doesn’t let critics get to
him. Sports,1C
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Randy Newman’s
balancing act
n a technological feat that gives scientists their first opportunity to dig
into a remnant of the early solar
system, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission successfully
placed a small spacecraft on the surface of
a speeding comet Wednesday.
With this achievement, a comet is no
longer a mysterious and sometimes frightening spray of light across the night sky,
but another member of the solar system to
be explored, like the moon and Mars. The
technology of landing on a comet, with its
wisps of gravity, could be applied to future
efforts to mine asteroids.
The agency’s director-general, JeanJacques Dordain, described the touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a 2.5-mile-wide ball of rock, ice and
dust moving faster than 40,000 mph, as “a
big step for human civilization.”
At the Capitol Theatre, Newman and his piano took
his audience on a musical
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The news comes as NATO
says Moscow is sending
supplies into Ukraine.
Associated Press
MOSCOW — In a show of military
muscle amid tensions with the West,
Russia will send long-range strategic
bombers on regular patrol missions
across the globe, from the Arctic Ocean
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“We assess that this significant military buildup includes Russian artillery,
tanks, air defense systems and troops.
His statement called the situation a
“severe threat to the cease-fire.”
Moscow denied the allegation as
unfounded, but Shoigu also said the
dispute with the West over Ukraine
would require Russia to beef up its
forces in Crimea, the Black Sea Pen.
See TIA, 7A
BY STEVE BOUSQUET
Orbit of
Jupiter
to the Gulf of Mexico, a top official said
Wednesday.
The announcement was made
by Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu as NATO’s chief accused Russia
of sending fresh troops and tanks into
eastern Ukraine.
“Over the last few days, we have seen
multiple reports of large convoys moving into eastern Ukraine,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
.
His campaign manager is in the
running to become chief of staff.
Mars
Russian planes may patrol gulf
INDEX
Comics
See COMET, 5A
Comet’s location
when Rosetta
was launched
TAMPA — Bay area leaders will gather at
Tampa International Airport today to announce
a new nonstop flight to one of the airport’s most
coveted international destinations: Frankfurt,
Germany.
Lufthansa German Airlines CEO Karl Garnadt said in October that Tampa is one of
the carrier’s top targets for a new series of
low-cost, long-haul flights set to launch in fall
2015. Tampa was the only U.S. city the CEO
listed.
Garnadt told the aviation news website Runway Girl Network that Lufthansa’s new service
— called “Jump” — will offer fewer first-class
seats in order to add more business and economy seats to serve overseas destinations including Tampa; Panama City, Panama; Cancun, Mexico; Cape Town, South Africa; and a few cities in
Southeast Asia.
Local officials will make the announcement
at the airport at 10 a.m. today. In the past, such
announcements have preceded the start of new
air service from Tampa to: Cuba, continental
Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Northwest.
When Joe Lopano became airport CEO in
2011, he was tasked with bringing international
See RUSSIA, 7A
TALLAHASSEE — One week after clinching
a new term, Gov. Rick Scott shifted his focus to
the future Tuesday, promising more money for
schools and more tax cuts and making plans to
hire a new chief of staff.
Scott’s favorite for the most
powerful post in his second
administration appears to be
Melissa Sellers, a native Texan
who tightly ran his re-election campaign and whose loyalty seems to have won Scott’s
trust.
“She did a very good job
Melissa
on the campaign,” Scott told
Sellers, 32,
reporters after a Cabinet
ran Gov.
meeting. Asked what Sellers’
Rick Scott’s
next job will be, Scott said: “I
campaign.
don’t know.”
Sellers declined to comment on her future
Wednesday.
Scott’s chief of staff for the past two-anda-half years, Adam Hollingsworth, indicated
.
See SCOTT, 7A
Students suffer through hunger game
Divided into groups at Eckerd College, they
experience the gap between the rich and poor.
BY LISA GARTNER
Times Staff Writer
ST. PETERSBURG — “Welcome to the good life,” said the
butler, pulling out a chair from
the table covered in red and
cream linens, flowers at the center, the silverware set. “Sit down
wherever you’d like.”
Henry Sadler, 20, would have
liked to have done that. The
smell of garlic bread was a case
study in saliva. A basket of sugar
varieties accompanied the ice tea
selection, and he’d never have to
fill his own water glass.
But the little card he’d been
handed at the front door
informed Sadler, a sophomore at
Eckerd College, that the good life
was not for him. He lived in poverty, and would have to go sit on
Eckerd
College
students
wait on the
floor for food
Wednesday
with other
members of
the poverty
line group at
the OxFam
hunger
banquet.
the floor.
About 200 students attended
the OxFam America Hunger
Banquet at Eckerd on Wednesday evening, attempting to see
world hunger play out in front of
their faces. While three students
were plucked into the echelons of
the upper class, and others expe-
.
See HUNGER, 7A
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