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Research buzz: Using Antarctic microbes to consider feasibility of life on Mars
Description: Unusual proteins within microbes allow the organisms to survive in cold and salty conditions in Antarctica, and could in theory help support life on Mars as well, according to NASA-funded study at the University of Maryland School of...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Weather Reports, Science
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Carolyn Rosenstein, reading specialist
Carolyn Rosenstein, a retired McDonogh School reading specialist recalled as a nurturing faculty mentor who also served on the Women's Board of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Oct. 27 at her Pikesville home. She was 75.
"She was a great gal,...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Arts, Pikesville, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Johns Hopkins University
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H. Samuel Case, McDaniel professor
H. Samuel Case, who taught human physiology and exercise science at what is now McDaniel College for four decades, died Aug. 22 of complications from leukemia at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster.
The longtime Westminster resident was...Tags: American Heart Association, Colleges and Universities, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Leukemia, Carroll County (Maryland)
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The Rev. Dorris D. Alcott
The Rev. Dorris D. Alcott, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who had been director of religious education at Towson Unitarian Universalist Church, died April 3 of heart failure at Oak Crest Village retirement community.
The former longtime...Tags: Heart Failure, Harford County, Colleges and Universities, Technology, Johns Hopkins University
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Different& delectable
Not so long ago, Italian, Chinese and Greek food were considered delicacies. Now they're take-out (and even chain restaurant) fodder, and Baltimore's international dining offerings have expanded to every continent, save Antarctica. (Perhaps that's...Tags: Mount Vernon, Highlandtown, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Tacos
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March 7: Meet these eats
Don't be intimidated. Break out of your Italian/Chinese/Tex-Mex mold with these far-flung offerings. --John Houser III Not so long ago, Italian, Chinese and Greek food were considered delicacies. Now they're take-out (and even chain restaurant) fodder,...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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South Pole stroke victim recovering at Johns Hopkins
Working late into the night at a research center at the South Pole, Renee-Nicole Douceur thought she was just tired when her vision suddenly became blurred.
Sleep did nothing to improve her eyesight, and a doctor at the center at first thought she had...Tags: Human Body, Blood, Brain, Air Transportation Industry, Physical Therapy
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Alaska, Antarctica excluded from extreme cold data
Maryland WeatherFROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:Ella Wilkerson, in Owings Mills, asks if the national temperature extremes reported next to my mug shot include Alaska and Hawaii: “I have never seen Alaska with the lowest temperature. I find it hard to believe ….... -
Where are Summit Station and Islas Orcadas?
Maryland WeatherFROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:Don Torres, in Ellicott City, tracks the planet’s cold spots on our print weather page: “It’s almost always Summit Station, Greenland, and … [in the southern winter] Islas Orcadas… Would you...Tags: Greenland, Ellicott City, Weather Reports
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Sydney W. Porter Jr., radiation expert, dies
Sydney Wynne "Syd" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a...Tags: Mount Washington, Middletown, Colleges and Universities, Applied Physics, Three Mile Island Accident (1979)
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Star Trekking
Sun StaffFor two nights, the skies above a remote and nearly treeless campground in north-central Nebraska produced only disappointment for the 350 eager stargazers gathered there for the ninth annual Nebraska Star Party. Sunday evening was socked in by clouds....Tags: Family Vacations, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Satellite Technology, Eastern Africa, Melbourne
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Penguin exhibit at Florida's SeaWorld will get 10 tons of snow daily
ReutersORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - SeaWorld Orlando opened its "Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins" on Friday, a new attraction that will be coated with 10 tons of fresh snow each day. To recreate a cold, dry climate suitable for penguins in hot, humid...Tags: SeaWorld, Amusement and Theme Parks, Pittsburgh Penguins
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