============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.marconews.com � December 28, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Naples Daily News: http://web.marconews.com/marco/subscribe.html NAPLES WOMAN RECALLS DEADLY QUAKE OF 1964 The first time Cathy Harris accessed the Internet, she had one thing on her mind. Harris immediately signed up for e-mails alerting her to earthquakes. Any time the Richter scale moved past 5.5, she wanted to know. So Harris didn't have to turn on her TV over the weekend to find out Asia fell victim to devastation caused by a quake that measured 9.0 this weekend. She doesn't need newscasters or the pictures flashing there to tell her what nature can do. She's seen it firsthand. LAW SCHOOL CONSIDERS MOVE TO FLORIDA A law school could make its home in the town of Ave Maria, where more than 20,000 people are expected to live by 2016. The Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, Mich., was created by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, who also founded Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Mich. Monaghan plans to close the Ypsilanti school in 2007, which is when Ave Maria University is expected to be ready for students. PILES OF POST-HOLIDAY WASTE KEEPING LANDFILL FULL Trucks carrying garbage, yard waste and other discarded materials were backed up waiting to get into the entrance of the Naples landfill Monday afternoon around 12:30. Bob Kinney, site manager of the landfill, off Collier Boulevard near Interstate 75, said traffic was backed up early in the morning as well and would probably back up a third time later in the afternoon. INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS REPLACING OLD BLACKBOARDS Destiny Effert teaches her first-graders in a high-tech classroom, where the traditional staple of teaching, the blackboard, is a relic of the past. "This keeps them engaged and they can interact with it," said Effert, who teaches at the new Estates Elementary. As at all six new Collier County schools, Effert has replaced chalk with an expensive computer touch screen that she can write on electronically. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.marconews.com PERSPECTIVE: EDITORIAL: TSUNAMI TRAGEDY -- FORMER DAILY NEWS EDITOR OFFERS INSIGHTS The power of nature is awesome to behold. Ralf Kircher, a former colleague and Naples resident, captured it in words Sunday from a seemingly idyllic tourist haven on Phuket Island off the coast of Thailand. His account graced our front page Monday. First, Kircher told how fellow tourists were called out on a bright, sunny morning to see something extraordinary. All the water had drained from Patong Bay. See more of today�s Perspective stories at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective BUSINESS: FORCED-OUT CEO OF MORTGAGE GIANT TO GET $114,000 A MONTH FOR LIFE WASHINGTON � Franklin Raines, who was forced out as Fannie Mae's chief executive after five years, is slated to receive a monthly pension of more than $114,000 for life, according to documents the mortgage lending giant filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents also reveal that Raines has deferred compensation of $8.7 million to be paid out through 2020 and owns more than $5.5 million in Fannie Mae's stock. See more of today�s Business stories at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/business NEAPOLITAN: $1,000 WILL COME BETWEEN YOU AND THESE HIGH-END JEANS Designer jeans costing $150 can hardly be called expensive now that Calvin Stewart has entered the fray. The New York-based designer ratcheted up the stakes with the introduction of A.P.O. Jeans, offering fully customized denim embellished with diamond, gold and platinum details � starting at $1,000 a pair. "We wanted to be the Mercedez-Benz, the Maybach of the denim industry," Stewart told The Associated Press. (DaimlerChrysler's ultra high-end Maybach can cost upwards of $300,000.) See more of today�s Neapolitan stories at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan
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