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Effort under way to restore New Deal murals in Ellicott City
As a 5-year-old who adored her father, Shirley Bossom contentedly tagged along with him 70 years ago on daily errands that often included business in the granite-clad Ellicott City Post Office on Main Street.
The lifelong Ellicott City resident recalls...Tags: Davy Crockett, Renovation, Ellicott City, Arts, Lobbying
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Many oppose health care act, and many don't know its benefits
The fate of the Affordable Care Act is in the hands of the Supreme Court justices. But in the court of public opinion, a large percentage of people polled recently want the law scrapped. A CBS/New York Times survey found nearly half of those polled...Tags: Business, Justice System, Parkinson's Disease, Judges, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Neila Block, rec center supervisor
Neila Block, a retired Baltimore County recreation center supervisor who had been a Pimlico Hotel hostess, died of lung disease March 30 at her daughter's home in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 82 and had lived in Randallstown and Mount Washington.
Born Neila...Tags: Randallstown, Democratic Party, Baltimore County, Pikesville
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for sunny skies and a high temperature near 60 degrees. Breezy conditions are expected. Tonight is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low temperature around 43 degrees.
TRAFFIC
Check our traffic map for this morning's...Tags: PTA, Prosecution, Allegany County, Phylicia Barnes, Minnesota Vikings
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Tobacco, smoked or smokeless, still a health concern
In response to the recent letter defending smokeless tobacco use ("All tobacco products are not equally harmful," Jan. 24), the risk of tobacco trumps all others. Fifty cigarettes a day increases the risk of end-stage lung disease and lung cancer 150-...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Human Body, Lung Cancer, Heart Attack, Human Body
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Study says Curtis Bay, Brooklyn among MD's most polluted areas
The Curtis Bay and Brooklyn neighborhoods in industrialized South Baltimore are among the most polluted in Maryland and even the nation, says a Washington-based environmental group, which is calling for tighter scrutiny of air quality there and curbs on...Tags: Cancer, Business, Heart Disease, Environmental Pollution, Lung Cancer
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Lucine A. Young, secretary
Baltimore Sun reporterLucine A. Young, a retired longtime city public schools secretary who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, died Nov. 25 of lung disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 88 and lived in Pikesville. The former Lucine Anita Pitts...Tags: Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Maryland Medical Center, Randallstown, Frederick Douglass
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Hopkins to study genetics of asthma in African-Americans
Johns Hopkins researchers, in the largest study to date, will map the genetic code for asthma in people of African descent in hopes of better understanding why the disease and other allergy-related ailments disproportionately afflict that population....Tags: Wheezing, Medical Research, Genetic Engineering, Science, University of Chicago
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Federal agency investigating sand-blasting hazards
For years, the wastes from burning coal and producing copper have enjoyed a second life, used in sand-blasting to remove paint, rust and grime from ship's hulls, storage tanks, bridge trusses and other surfaces. Painting contractors, shipyard workers...Tags: Cancer, Companies and Corporations, Harsco Corporation, Litigation and Regulation, Lungs and Airways
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Obama caved on air quality standards
I couldn't agree more with Rena Steinzor's commentary on air pollution ("Breathing uneasily," Sept. 8). President Obama's decision to reject his own Environmental Protection Agency's recommendation to strengthen air quality standards for ozone is a bad...Tags: Environmental Politics, Standards, Environmental Pollution, Lungs and Airways, Diseases and Illnesses
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Hazel Croner
Hazel Croner, a prolific fashion illustrator who sketched for Baltimore's department stores and their national magazine ads, died of lung disease Oct. 27 at Northwest Hospital Center. The Owings Mills resident was 98.
In her 70-year career, she was a...Tags: Inner Harbor, Television Industry, Fine Arts, Artists, Fells Point
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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: Judges, University of California, Los Angeles, FEMA, Employers, Hunt Valley
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