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The Interview: Bentley on a maritime promise lost
The Baltimore Sun's front page on July 22, 1959, carried the news accompanied by a six-column photo: The world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship had been launched at Camden, N.J.
The christening of the $47 million N/S Savannah was bigger than news about...Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inner Harbor, Museums, Cape Canaveral, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, broke color barrier at Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living.
He was 85.
"It's important for America to...Tags: U.S. Army, Howard University, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, Jackie Robinson
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25 Years Ago: Board votes to advertise all school system jobs, except teaching slots
From The Aegis dated May 21, 1987: Any job, except teaching positions, that came open in the Harford County Public Schools had to be advertised before they were filled, the school board voted 25 years ago this week. Despite objections from...Tags: Lacrosse, University of Maryland Baltimore County, College Sports, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Teaching and Learning
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Algae "scrubber" tackles harbor pollution
In their quest to cure Baltimore's ailing harbor, advocates and authorities have tried one gadget after another: floating wetlands, a solar-powered aerator, even a trash wheel. Add now the "algal turf scrubber," a long wooden sluiceway in which harbor...
Tags: Inner Harbor, Engineering, Technology, Fells Point, University of Maryland, College Park
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Scientists use algae to scrub harbor water
In their quest to cure Baltimore's ailing harbor, advocates and authorities have tried one gadget after another: floating wetlands, a solar-powered aerator, even a trash wheel.
Add now the "algal turf scrubber," a long wooden sluiceway through which...Tags: Inner Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Engineering, Plant Openings, Crossroads
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Japanese students visit Arundel High
Japanese cultural exchange student Minami Tajima remembers one of her first visits to an American restaurant. She and about two dozen other students from Japan visited Anne Arundel County last year, and after she befriended Arundel High School student...Tags: Teachers, Earthquakes, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Overstated Iranian 'threat' puts U.S. on path to war
A neocon joke, at the beginning of the Iraq war, was: "Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran." It wasn't funny then, and it isn't funny now. Unfortunately, those "real men" who want to wage war on Iran are making so much noise that they may...
Tags: International Organizations, Barack Obama, Iran, Iran's Nuclear Program, Weaponry
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No more Fukushimas
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan one year ago today precipitated the most serious nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. A worst-case scenario contemplated the voluntary evacuation of Tokyo, as the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission feared a...Tags: Waste, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, York County (Pennsylvania), New York City
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Peach Bottom exercise under way to test ability of Harford to respond to emergency at nuke plant
If an emergency were to strike at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Harford County would be ready to go, Emergency Operations deputy manager Rick Ayers said Tuesday. The Emergency Operations Center in Hickory was the focus of a drill, the likes of...
Tags: Emergency Planning, American Red Cross, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Physical Fitness and Exercise, York County (Pennsylvania)
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The atomic age?
Since 1989, the opening credits to "The Simpsons," the longest running animated series on TV, has featured a short bit of animations showing the buffoon patriarch Homer sacked out at his post in the control room at a nuclear power plant. It's probably no...Tags: Homer Simpson (fictional character), The Simpsons (tv program), Safety of Citizens, Government
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Peach Bottom exercise goes off without a hitch
Harford County's emergency responders got a perfect report card for their response to a hypothetical disaster at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station. They were recovering from a major exercise, set every two years, on how they handle a nuclear emergency...Tags: FEMA, Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, York County (Pennsylvania)
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Safety violation charged at Calvert Cliffs
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has charged Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant with a safety violation after an employee "deliberately became inattentive" — meaning he was caught napping — last year in the room housing diesel generators...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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