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Obama-Xi summit shows the danger of personal diplomacy
Since President Richard Nixon's visit to China in February 1972, American presidents have hoped that building personal rapport with Chinese leaders would strengthen bilateral ties and win political points at home. While Nixon's trip was a diplomatic...
Tags: Xi Jinping, Richard Nixon, North Korea, Liu Xiaobo, Timothy Geithner
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Nobel Prize winner will speak on 'Coolest Stuff in the Universe'
It's not often that we find Nobel Prize winners hanging around our neck of the woods. But on Thursday, May 16, at 7 p.m., the community is invited to the Mulitz Theatre on the campus of Glenelg Country School, where Nobel Prize recipient and American...Tags: Science, Interior Policy, Ellicott City, Awards and Prizes, Christianity
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Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion
He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...
Tags: Executive Branch, Teachers, Jimmy Carter, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Christianity
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Franz X. Groll, physician
Dr. Franz Xavier Groll, a retired physician who lived and practiced on Eager Street in downtown Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, died of pulmonary thrombosis April 2 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 95. Born in Aalen in Germany, he was the son...
Tags: American Red Cross, Mount Vernon, General Practitioners, St. Paul Street, Hospitals and Clinics
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Hopkins' Nobel winner Riess to speak at Baltimore synagogue Sunday
Adam Riess, the Nobel Prize-winning astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the expansion of the universe and its mysteries in an event at Bolton Street Synagogue on Sunday. Riess will present and lead a discussion titled...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Adam Riess, Judaism, Awards and Prizes, Maryland Science Center
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Hubble spots distant supernova from early universe
Description: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago, the most distant of its kind ever spotted. It was 4 percent farther away and 350 million years older than the previous record-holder, a...
Tags: Science, Johns Hopkins University, Adam Riess, NASA, Entertainment Events
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Invest wisely in early childhood
As we struggle through the fifth year of recession, facing budget cuts, austerity and now the sequester, it may be a good time to re-evaluate our national priorities. Last year, the Reach Out and Read program that distributes books to low-income...
Tags: Family, University of Chicago, Head Start, Health Care Reform (2009), Nutrition
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads Baltimore Symphony in works by Mozart, Part
When Ignat Solzhenitsyn's career began a couple decades ago, the piano was his primary focus. In short order, the podium attracted his attention, and he has enjoyed significant success as a conductor. Over the weekend, this son of the Nobel Prize-...
Tags: Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Culture, Entertainment Events
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U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine
Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...
Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Carol W. Greider, Singapore, National Institutes of Health, Barack Obama
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...
Tags: Russia, North Korea, Human Mishaps, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin
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Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists
Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...
Tags: Science, Shinya Yamanaka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Awards and Prizes, Diseases and Illnesses
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The Carson monologue
Dr. Benjamin Carson, the eminent Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, has received much attention over the years not only for his skills in the operating room but for what he has achieved beyond it. For many Baltimoreans, his story is a familiar one...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Heritage Foundation, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Awards and Prizes
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