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Obesity epidemic's cure: Less meat, more veggies
The number of Americans considered obese is expected to rise from the current 34 percent to 42 percent by the year 2030, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and discussed at Monday's "Weight of the Nation"...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Heart Disease, Diets and Dieting, Medical Research, Vegan Diet
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Ben Carson and the evolution-morality debate
Almost 500 Emory University faculty and students have expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker on Monday does not toe the ideological line when it comes to evolutionary biology. Yes — gasp — the renowned Johns Hopkins...
Tags: Biology, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Genes and Chromosomes, Teachers
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The author: When Wes Moore met Wes Moore
Many articles in The Baltimore Sun's 175-year history have entertained me, enlarged my view of the world and forced me to reconsider my instincts or feelings. But one article struck me more than any other. It was about Wes Moore. And it had nothing to...
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Israeli opposition to Palestinian state is unwavering
The Rev. James W. Dale suggests that "The harder way, I believe, is the way of continuing to demand that both sides must come to the table if there is ever to be a lasting peace with justice" ("Choosing to stay engaged," May 4). This in contrast to...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Palestine, Yitzhak Rabin
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Rev. James A. Devereux, Jesuit provincial
The Rev. James Ashton Devereux, a Jesuit priest who served as provincial of Maryland Province, died of Parkinson's disease Dec. 19 at Manresa Hall in Merion Station, Pa. He was 83.
Born in Philadelphia, he was a 1945 graduate of St. Joseph's...Tags: Georgetown University, Scranton, Colleges and Universities, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Loyola University Maryland
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NAACP leader talks of Troy Davis execution
Troy Davis failed to prove to correction and legal officials that he was innocent of killing a police officer 22 years ago, but in the eyes of NAACP President Benjamin Jealous he has all the attributes of a hero. Jealous told a group of social workers...Tags: Ceremonies, University of Maryland, College Park, Prosecution, Employees, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Stephanie Yezek, ready to Bare it all again
"We are not an ordinary dance company," affirms Stephanie Yezek when asked about her Bare Contemporary Dance Collaboration.
Together with co-founder Francesca Jandasek, the Howard County native is back in town after a whirlwind dance tour, and is...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Dance, Dancing, Colleges and Universities, Television
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Why I'm watching the royal wedding
Friday mornings at 4 a.m. generally find me asleep, but this week I'll be among the thousands of Anglophiles glued to my television for the "wedding of the century."
At 25, I've spent the better part of my adult life either in Europe or wishing I was...Tags: Marriage, United Kingdom, Colleges and Universities, Bill Clinton, Jane Austen
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Lincoln Gordon
Abraham Lincoln Gordon, a former educator and diplomat who during his tenure as the ninth president of the Johns Hopkins University led the way in 1970 in bringing co-education to the university's Homewood campus, died Saturday in his sleep at...Tags: International Relations, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Johns Hopkins University, New York City, Diplomacy
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NAACP head hopes to mobilize voters
Sun reportersBy age 6, Benjamin Todd Jealous had read through all of the books about African-Americans in his elementary school library and inquired why there weren't more. At 7, he told his family that he wanted to become a civil rights lawyer. At 14, he organized...Tags: San Francisco, Columbia University, Bill Clinton, Christianity, Polls
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Line a signature of Clinton's appeal abroad
Sun Foreign StaffLONDON - The line began forming Sunday and by yesterday morning it snaked through the streets and alleyways of Piccadilly Circus, jamming traffic and clogging sidewalks until the management of Europe's largest bookstore said enough already, nobody else...Tags: Europe, United Kingdom, Colleges and Universities, Bill Clinton, David Beckham
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Iraq collapse sends political rumblings through Arab states
Associated PressCAIRO, Egypt - Rulers across the Middle East have just witnessed how quickly Iraqis went from pledging "our blood, our souls" for Saddam Hussein to toppling his statues and spitting on his portraits. It has been an earthquake, in which some are drawing...Tags: Disasters, Political Systems, Yasser Arafat, U.S. Elections, Democracy
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