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After nearly 3,000 miles, record-breaking bike ride ends in Annapolis
Somewhere on a lonely road in Kansas, about halfway through his 2,989.5-mile bicycle trek across the United States, Christoph Strasser, a 30-year-old former bike messenger, made a decision. He wouldn't simply win the Race Across America, the famously...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Phillips Seafood, Tour de France, Cycling
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Biological psychiatry's false paradigm
Days before the official May 22 publication date of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5), a number of psychiatrists who were closely associated with the project scrambled to do some preemptory damage control, mostly by...Tags: Symptoms, Diabetes, Medical Specialization, Chemical Industry, Psychiatry
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Diversity efforts in lacrosse slow to pay off, but it's a start
When Chazz Woodson, a midfielder for Major League Lacrosse's Ohio Machine, stated recently that a racial epithet had been directed at him three times during his collegiate career at Brown, once by an opposing player and twice by teammates, the old myth...
Tags: Ohio Machine, Lacrosse, Major League Lacrosse, Civil Rights, High School Sports
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In a word: ersatz
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: ERSATZ English merrily plunders other languages... -
Rx for electronic records
A critical opportunity to improve U.S. health care finally lies within reach. In 2004, then-President George Bush announced the goal to have a national electronic health records (EHR) system in place in 10 years. Tragically, EHR development had become...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Cost, American Medical Association, Johns Hopkins University, Technology
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As in Maryland, local police nationwide scooping up DNA
Police departments around the country are collecting DNA in largely unregulated databases, The New York Times reported today, providing a broader look at a practice The Baltimore Sun revealed in Maryland earlier this year. The largest collections of DNA...
Tags: Laws, Biotechnology Industry, Criminal Laws
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Snooping, past and present
For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...
Tags: Edward Snowden, Gerald Ford, NBC (tv network), National Security Agency, National Government
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Mildred Kern, U.N. worker
Mildred Kern, an original resident of the North Oaks Retirement Community who had worked overseas for the United Nations, died of heart disease Sunday at her home. She was six days short of turning 105. "She was our oldest resident, and she was our...
Tags: Stock Market, Washington, DC, Heart Disease, United Nations, The Wall Street Journal
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Retired Timonium pediatrician discovers new joy authoring his memoirs
Dr. Robert Yim can't wipe the smile off his face. For 42 years, he was a pediatrician. Now, he is an author, having self-published a 289-page memoir called "Sleeping with Mae West and Other Stories." It may be difficult for people to understand the...
Tags: Music, Judges, Justice System, Bethlehem Steel, Pediatrics
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...
Tags: Jarmes R. Clapper, Saxby Chambliss, POLITICO LLC, Freedom of the Press, Joe Biden
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The Pick-Up: Week One of CSA Challenge: Garlic scapes recipe
My first thought when I found a garlic scapes dip recipe, which ran in the New York Times several years ago, was this: I bet this dip would be great with homemade pita chips. My second thought was this: Making homemade pita chips means cleaning my big...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Salt, Salads, Pita Bread, Garlic
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The case against NSA's phone record surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the National Security Agency, seeking an end to the collection of data about nearly every phone call made by Americans, provides an almost unprecedented opportunity for the public to challenge the...
Tags: Edward Snowden, Justice System, Terrorism, CBS Corp., Civil Rights
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