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Harford Christian wins seventh straight Harford Envirothon
Harford Christian School won its seventh consecutive Harford Envirothon Wednesday, the culmination of weeks of studying, but the students' coach warned them they couldn't rest long with the state competition about six weeks away. "[There are] volumes of...
Tags: Harford County, Teaching and Learning, Students, Havre de Grace, Natural Resource Industry
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Former neighbor helps introduce us to sport of gymnastics [Commentary]
When I was pregnant with my second child, I frequently joked that I had a gymnast or an acrobat in my belly. That baby (we didn't know if it was a boy or a girl until I delivered) was so active, so often, that it just had to be one or the other. At 2...Tags: Financial Aid, Michigan State Spartans, Awards and Prizes, Gymnastics, Gymnastics Clubs
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Researchers map Maryland's forest carbon
If a tree falls in Maryland's forests — even if no one hears it — researchers soon will have a handle on how much it could contribute to global warming.
A pair of geographical scientists at the University of Maryland, College Park is...Tags: Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities, Conservation, Global Change, Biofuels
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Rawlings-Blake names new Rec and Parks director
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has hired a new director of recreation and parks, choosing an experienced manager who has headed similar agencies in three cities. Ernest W. Burkeen Jr., 64, who previously ran recreation and parks departments in Miami,...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Tampa, Peter O'Malley
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The or not the
The Baltimore SunOn Twitter, @SherrieVossMatthews inquires about the use of articles with initialisms and acronyms.* An article at Daily Writing Tips summarizes the conventions: "Because acronyms like NASA are pronounced as words ('na-suh,' in this case), there’s...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Financial Aid, The Ohio State University, AIDS, Central Intelligence Agency
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Court partly backs off pit bull ruling
Maryland's highest court on Tuesday partly backed off its April decision that pit bulls are inherently dangerous, admitting that it went too far when it applied its standard to cross-bred dogs. But the new ruling, which affects only purebred animals, does...
Tags: Judges, Towson, Justice System, Baltimore County, Pets
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Sister Mary Magdala Thompson
Sister Mary Magdala Thompson, a Sister of Mercy who was a noted educator, psychotherapist and author, died July 14 of heart failure at Providence Hospital in Mobile, Ala.
The former Baltimore resident was 89.
"There was a common thread in all of the...Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Teachers, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Health and Medical Professionals, Auburn University
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Loss of children inspires Ellicott City mothers to advocate for suicide prevention
Before asking the question, Congressman John Sarbanes made sure to say "if you don't mind sharing."
Donna Curley and Sara Tagget didn't mind. It was why they were in Washington that day. It was why they were sitting in Sarbanes' office. It was why they...Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Health and Safety at School, Health and Medical Professionals, Behavioral Conditions, Sheppard Pratt Health System
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Advisory panel calls for end to most experiments on chimpanzees
Medical experiments on chimpanzees are largely unnecessary and should be rare, concluded a report released Thursday from special panel of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science.
The authors did not recommend an outright ban,...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Values, HIV, National Institutes of Health, Jeffrey Kahn
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Gambling rule relaxed for slots licenses
In response to concerns raised by a high-profile applicant for a downtown Baltimore slots casino, Maryland officials have relaxed a rule designed to keep people with past gambling transgressions from winning licenses to operate such facilities. The...Tags: YouTube, Martin O'Malley, Litigation and Regulation, Finance, Police Arrests
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Karen Kalck to wed Jason McCormick
Geri and Larry Kalck, of Fallston, announce the engagement of their daughter, Karen Angela Kalck, to Jason Clinton McCormick, son of Dennis McCormick of Louisville, Tenn., and Christy Linke of Plant City, Fla. The bride to be is a 1997 graduate of...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Science, Health and Medical Professionals, Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Stolen mummy to return home to UM medical school
The 200-year-old mummified remains of a small child are making their way back to the University of Maryland School of Medicine after an absence in which they were posted for sale on eBay and languished for almost five years in a Michigan police evidence...Tags: Television, Linthicum, Colleges and Universities, Auction Service, eBay Inc.
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