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Adventure Race, Jonathan Dickensn State Park, Hobe Sound, Fla.
   
Wildlife biologist Stephen Stiegler, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's alligator management program, starts his day on Lake Okeechobee with other alligator egg hunters.
  
PGA player Shigeki Maruyama reacts to missing a putt on the 18th green, his final hole of the Ginn sur Mer Classic at Tesoro at the Tesoro Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
     
  
A bull rider waits for the start of the rodeo in Indiantown, Fla.
   
  
n a private session with Maj. Plummer, Claude McCoy, 14, and Craig Messner, 13, practice hand-to-hand combat training. Often criticized by parents and outsiders, VCH teaches its boys “combatives” straight out of the U.S. Army field manual. The defensive, non-lethal moves such as falling and escape techniques are always prefaced with the responsibility the people who learn it have, along with the importance of self-control.
     
  
Kite boarding, Stuart, Florida.
   
Tommy Lasorda at the final Vero Beach Dodgers baseball game in Vero Beach, Fla.