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More nurses, more research and a more diverse student population will be Florida Atlantic University's priorities next year as officials send a budget request to the state that focuses on the growing partnerships with local research institutes and training students to fill high-need jobs.

FAU's board of trustees will review a $14.7 million wish list Wednesday that, if approved, will face scrutiny by the Board of Governors and then head to the legislature next year.

The request is in addition to FAU's annual operating and capital budget. Each university was asked to provide a priority list of special projects to the Board of Governors by Friday so it can begin assembling its 2008-2009 budget. The board oversees Florida's 11 public universities.

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The John Scott Dailey Florida Institute of Government at Florida Atlantic University will host "Redeveloping Green: Sustainable Development Issues and Options for Local Government Officials and Developers" from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Thursday.

The seminar will take place at the Coconut Creek Community Center, 900 N.W. 43rd Ave., Coconut Creek.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Troubled girls are inundated with so many explicit messages from Hollywood, their friends and even their parents that they believe casual sex is just a normal part of being a teenager, a Florida Atlantic University researcher has concluded.

Josie Weiss, an assistant professor of nursing on FAU's Treasure Coast campus, interviewed 20 girls ages 14 to 18 incarcerated at VisionQuest, an Okeechobee, Fla.-based intervention program for at-risk teens.

They said movies, television shows and music lyrics all make sex seem commonplace. Their friends engaged in sex, and in some cases their parents were living with someone outside of marriage, they said.

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SARASOTA -- Still shy of his 30th birthday, broker Clint Conway has already gone through business undulations many don't experience in an entire career.

But in the wake of his work last month on the $65 million sale of the Hyatt Sarasota to giant equity firm the Blackstone Group, Conway is hoping he -- and his nascent real estate ambitions -- are on a sustained uptick.

"It's not the money that comes from doing big deals that motivates me," said the 29-year-old RealtyOne Florida agent. "It's the feeling of personal success, of persistence paying off, of the ups and downs of real estate. I feel like everything's starting to come together."

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Contrary to their lowly, laughable place in the NBA standings, the players

on the Orlando Magic's first team really were big winners.

It just took nearly two decades for folks to recognize it.

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