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Eating like the Ikarians, a master class in Greek country cooking
The Baltimore SunYou may have seen those stories about Ikaria, the Greek island whose inhabitants are famed for their longevity. A New York Times article by Dan Buettner about Ikaria wast titled The Island Where People Forget to Die. The Ikarian diet, heavy on whole...Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, The New York Times, Christianity
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Greek Food & Cultural Festival is this weekend
The Baltimore SunThe 41st Annual Greek Food & Cultural Festival starts Friday. This is the one at the Greek Cathedral of the Annunciation in Midtown-Belvedere, when everyone sits on the cathedral's steps in the sunshine and stuffs themselves silly. Under the big tent...Tags: Festive Events
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The euro has failed
Europe's single currency is a bust. With unemployment reaching depression levels in the Mediterranean states, time has long passed to negotiate an orderly return to national currencies. Euro advocates argue a single currency is essential for creating a...
Tags: Antitrust Issues, Republic of Ireland, Productivity, Government, Madrid (Spain)
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Rachel Marsden on Waiting for a European Santa Claus
While your co-workers hover around the water cooler debating whether it matters if Mitt Romney bullied some kid in his youth, a formerly First World nation called Greece is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Why, you might ask, should Middle America...
Tags: American Idol (tv program), Mitt Romney, Francois Hollande, Barack Obama, Santa Claus (fictional character)
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Europe's lesson for the GOP
The economic and political tumult in Europe has continued this week with anti-incumbent votes in France and Greece as well as signs of disaffection in Italy, Great Britain and Germany. The electorate is angry, and the election results have raised...
Tags: European Union, Nicolas Sarkozy, Democratic Party, Europe, France
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Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks to Greater Baltimore Committee
Speaking to hundreds of Baltimore's business leaders in Harbor East on Thursday morning, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised President Barack Obama's handling of the recession and outlined his boss' financial reform wish list, which...Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin L. Cardin, Timothy Geithner, Finance, Harford County
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Schaller fails to see danger of U.S. debt
Columnist Thomas F. Schaller's analysis is incredibly myopic ("Avoiding Europe's austerity nightmare," April 18). To compare the economic condition of the U.S. to those of Greece or Spain at the beginning of the economic crisis is comparing apples and... -
Zach Lederer, 'Zaching,' and the local teen's bold fight against cancer
It is an image that has inspired hundreds, if not thousands.
Zach Lederer, 18, stares directly and defiantly into the camera, arms up and flexed in a muscle pose, surrounded by the medical accouterments of his hospital bed.
He had just come out of brain...Tags: Chemotherapy, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Brain, Adam Carolla, Ellicott City
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The power of light
It doesn’t look like much -- Janet Althen places what looks like a small flashlight with an inverted colored bulb on certain points of the body, holding it there for about 30 seconds -- but for Althen’s patients, as well as a growing number of...Tags: Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Germany, Back Pain, Nobel Prize Awards
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Joyce K. Melonas, chef
Joyce K. Melonas, who was the cook at a downtown waterfront diner that she owned and operated with her husband, died Wednesday of Alzheimer's disease at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium
She was 92.
The daughter of Greek immigrants, Joyce Karas was...Tags: Hunt Valley, Highlandtown, Timonium, Christian Orthodoxy, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Cruising the Mediterranean with Ravens' Chris Carr
Ravens cornerback Chris Carr is everywhere, all at once.
He had played in 97 straight games before being injured in this year's season opener, where he was part of a defense that forced a franchise-record seven turnovers in a 35-7 victory over the...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Chris Carr, Pittsburgh Steelers, Radiohead (music group), Hotels and Accommodations
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Sandy John Sarantinos, former principal
Sandy John Sarantinos, a former Southern High School principal, died of leukemia Dec. 5 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 77 and lived in Monkton.
Born in Chios, Greece, he came to the United States in 1946 and lived with his family in Donora,...Tags: Leukemia, U.S. Army, Federal Hill, Christian Orthodoxy, Francis Scott Key
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