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Hughes' Journey
Sun reporterThe living room of the headmaster's house at the Gunston Day School is tastefully furnished with wingback chairs and a grand piano. But when former Gov. Harry Hughes enters with his lunch on a recent visit, he takes the worst possible seat - a brown...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Agricultural Research and Technology, Regional Authority, Local Elections, Family
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Director of NASA hopes for quick return to flight
Sun StaffWith Discovery safely back on Earth, NASA's engineers will turn their full attention to figuring out why a menacing hunk of foam insulation broke away from the shuttle's external fuel tank despite 2 1/2 years of work to fix the problem -- the same one...Tags: Boeing Co., Air Transportation Industry, Space Programs, Aerospace Manufacturing, Air Transportation
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National do-not-call list scrutinized
The Wall Street JournalTwo years after the National Do Not Call Registry took effect -- and with more than 100 million numbers enrolled -- dinner-time conversations are still being interrupted by telemarketing calls. Regulators say the system is working, but a recent random...Tags: Trials, Agricultural Research and Technology, Regional Authority, Gaming, Marketing
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What we fear probably won't hurt us
Sun reporterIn providing the first inside account of the sniper shootings, Lee Boyd Malvo offered a graphic reminder of why the region was gripped by fear for three weeks in October 2002. The killings were random, senseless, horrific. They were meant to scare us, and...Tags: Trials, Terrorism, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Meteorological Disasters
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Potential hazards to consumers from flavoring agent unchecked
Sun reporterMillions of Americans are exposed regularly to vapors released when they heat products containing the same synthetic butter flavoring blamed for destroying the lungs of workers in popcorn and flavoring factories. But public health activists say no one...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Georgetown, Government, Health and Safety at Work
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2005 All-Metro Girls Track and Field Teams
Sun staffPerformer of the Year: Theresa Lewis, Western Last year, there was a photo in The Sun from last spring's Class 3A state championships that appeared to show Lewis - with raised hands - crossing the finish line before Long Reach's Timisha Gomez in the...Tags: High Jump, Track and Field, Teaching and Learning, Festive Events, Triple Jump
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Disease is swift, response is slow
Sun reporterIt took two years on the job and a chemical in something as ordinary as butter flavoring to turn a strapping factory worker into someone who sleeps tethered to an oxygen tank. Francisco Herrera, 32, suffers from an aggressive disease that has destroyed...Tags: Trials, Hunt Valley, Maryland, Health and Safety at Work, Diseases and Illnesses
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Showing the flag
"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "and an audience is electrified." The United States of America, in all its complexity, is no small enterprise, its citizenry more than a crowd. But over the years, those...Tags: Frederick Douglass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ceremonies, Television, Society
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Turning up the heat on spam
Sun StaffWASHINGTON -- Sitting in a plush leather chair in a borrowed office at George Washington University Law School, Eric Menhart seems nothing more than an ambitious, third-year law student with some impressive experience under his belt. He has interned...Tags: Trials, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Gaming, Maryland, Marketing
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Judge faults Md. law on spam
Sun StaffIn a decision that could hamper Maryland's efforts to control spam - the popular term for junk e-mail advertising on the Internet - a Montgomery County judge has ruled that the state's anti-spam law is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate...Tags: Trials, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Gaming, Maryland, Marketing
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Maryland's lost
Sept. 19, 2001 Still more Maryland residents are dead or missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Amelia Fields Amelia Fields, 38, a clerical worker who had been transferred to the Pentagon on Sept. 10, is listed as missing. Mrs. Fields grew up...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Georgetown University, Business Trips, Prince (music artist), Verizon Communications
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NASA's safety culture blamed
Orlando SentinelNASA's own bureaucracy was as much to blame for the space shuttle Columbia disaster as a dislodged piece of foam insulation that punctured the orbiter's wing on takeoff, the board investigating the Feb. 1 accident said in its final report, released...Tags: Satellite Technology, Space Programs, Disasters, Death, Rocketry
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