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The science and suffering of hearing loss
Former Baltimorean Katherine Bouton abruptly lost the hearing in her left ear at age 30. One minute she could hear, and the next, she could not. Over the decades, her impairment worsened. By the time she was 60, she was functionally deaf. But her...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Hospitals and Clinics, The New York Times, Hearing Impairment, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Mead and cider make a comeback in Maryland
Make room for cider and mead. In Maryland, cider was last popular in Colonial times. Mead never has been. But a new generation of mead and cider makers, with their feet planted firmly in Maryland soil, are rethinking these age-old fermented...
Tags: Farms, Honey, Alcoholic Beverages, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Older Americans are front and center during May
May is Older Americans Month! The Administration for Community Living and the Administration on Aging, which come under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, continue this great tradition and their commitment to recognizing the valuable...Tags: Laws, Lawyers, Howard Community College, Justice System, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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5 questions … for outgoing Broadmead CEO Rich Compton
Broadmead, a continuing-care retirement community in Hunt Valley, has "been so much than just a place to work," said retiring CEO Rich Compton. He has served as the company's leader for almost three decades. During that time, his parents came to live...
Tags: Hunt Valley, Corporate Officers, Conservation, Literature, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Good Deeds: Spotlight on the American Heart Association
Nonprofit organizations abound in Howard County, and Howard Magazine highlights who they are, what they do and how you can help. Name: American Heart Association Who: Annette Fisher, senior director, marketing and communications, Mid-Atlantic region...
Tags: Stroke, American Heart Association, Overweight, Diabetes, Heart Disease
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Ambluance responders acted appropriately [letter]
Editor: Regarding your article of March 6, "Rescuers break wrong door down." I'm sure policies and procedures were followed. The medic unit was responding to a possible stroke victim. Often times, a person having a stroke is paralyzed and unable to... -
Catching Up With ... Aldo Guidolin
He sits quietly in a wheelchair at a long-term care facility in his native Guelph, Ontario. Aldo Guidolin doesn’t talk — multiple strokes have robbed him of his speech — but his brown eyes follow ice hockey games on TV and the...
Tags: Baltimore Clippers, 1st Mariner Arena, New York Rangers, National Hockey League, American Hockey League
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Immigration reform and entitlement reform go together
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And then the next year, Hillary Rodham. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as "Newty" as a boy). And, also in 1946, Cher....
Tags: George W. Bush, Employment, Medicare, Laura Bush, Migration
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Inspectors keep Maryland's aging bridges safe for traffic
On a recent cold, gray morning, state bridge inspector Van Swift jumped into his office: a 4-by-3-foot white bucket at the end of a 60-foot hydraulic arm anchored to a flatbed "snooper" truck. Working a cluster of joysticks, he swung the bucket away from...
Tags: Barack Obama, Towson University, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Highway Transportation, Patapsco
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Reducing utility costs, hospital visits
The first winter after Danielle Smith bought her house in North Baltimore, the 35-year-old schoolteacher wondered if it even had a furnace, it was so cold and drafty. Now, with almost all new windows and several other energy-efficiency retrofits, Smith...
Tags: New Products, Family, Personal Income, Government, Wheezing
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Another victim of black blindness?
Call it black blindness. It is a kind of myopia that afflicts some of us -- too many of us -- whenever we gaze upon a dark-skinned man. It causes some of us -- too many of us -- to see things that are not there, and to miss things that are. Sometimes,...
Tags: Satellite Beach, David Dunn, The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Nova A. Scott, educator
Nova A. Scott, a retired Baltimore public schools educator who became the first African-American woman to serve on the Howard County Commission on Aging, died Wednesday of complications from an infection at Howard County General Hospital.
She was 86....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Morgan State University, Clarksville, Civil Rights
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