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Will my baby keep his baby blues?
The Baltimore SunI've always been fascinated by eye color, especially as it changes after a baby is born. As happens with most caucasian babies, both my sons were born with blue eyes, but I haven't expected it to last -- my eyes are blue, but my husband's are brown. My... -
SpaceX rocket carries Maryland science project into space
As the space capsule called Dragon hurtled toward the International Space Station at about 17,500 miles per hour on Friday, no space enthusiast was more enthralled than Paul Warren, a self-described "nerd" who attends Henry E. Lackey High School in...
Tags: Science, High Schools, Astronomy, Satellite Technology, Nottingham
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Maryland high court blocks request to reconsider DNA ruling
Maryland's highest court rejected a request to reconsider an April ruling that blocks state law enforcement from collecting DNA samples when a suspect is arrested, court officials said Friday.
The decision puts the case on track for an appeal to the U.S....Tags: Lawyers, Law Enforcement, U.S. Supreme Court, Judges, Douglas F. Gansler
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Test offers red flag for autism at 6 months
A simple “pull-to-sit” test on infants at six months old may help doctors predict autismand other delays, a new study has found. The study by Kennedy Krieger Institute researchers looked at infants at high genetic risk for autism and found...Tags: Autism, Learning Disability, Parkinson's Disease, Behavioral Conditions, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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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: Science, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, University of Oxford, Neurosurgery
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Born this way? Liberals and the pseudo-science of the conservative brain
"They do that because they were born that way." If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless you're black yourself). If you say it about women, you may or may not be sexist,...
Tags: Science, Fidel Castro, College Sports, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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A new dress, and set of lungs, for prom
For the first time in the six years since Victoria Chakwin was diagnosed with a deadly lung disease, the gown she wears won't be hospital issue.
The 18-year-old from Martinsburg, W.Va., will go to her senior prom Saturday night in a red-and-black...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Asthma, Charity, Respiratory Disease, Lungs and Airways
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Maurice Sendak's parents never knew he was gay
It was pure coincidence that Maurice Sendak died on the same day that North Carolina voters approved an amendment to their state constitution banning gay marriage. And the same day that Joe Biden was in the hot seat for his comment over the weekend that...Tags: Clarksville, Same-Sex Marriage, Joe Biden, The New York Times, NPR
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DNA: Why wait for an arrest?
Swabbing the ol' buccal mucosa for the unique genetic code of someone merely arrested for a crime violates that someone's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. That's the opinion of the Maryland Court of Appeals, and this...
Tags: Science, Lawyers, Police Investigations, The New York Times, Prosecution
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Dirt, Sweat & Love: How John Dove is reinventing the family farm
As a supplier of organic produce to AIDA Bistro & Wine Bar last summer, John Dove felt no pressure to stick to a rigid deliveryschedule. The Columbia restaurant was happy to accept whatever crop the young farmer had to offer whenever he had it to give...
Tags: Natural Resources, Healthy Diet, Feta Cheese, Farms, Towson
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Gansler pushes Supreme Court appeal on DNA ruling
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler took a first step Tuesday toward an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a high-stakes case that blocks police across the state from collecting DNA samples when a person is arrested in connection with a...Tags: Executive Branch, Lawyers, Martin O'Malley, Law Enforcement, U.S. Supreme Court
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Huge lemon tree among Ellicott City man's rare plant emporium
There's the 15-foot orange tree with its menacing 11/2-inch-long thorns, a bushy affair that sprouted from small seeds like those most of us just spit out. Nearby is a kiwi plant, its aggressive tendrils snaking vertically up a nearby tree. And then...Tags: Youngstown State University, Gardening, Hobbies, Korean War (1950-1953), University of Maryland, College Park
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