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Balto. firm to build world's tallest indoor roller coaster in China
When it opens next year, the Great Mall of China near Beijing will be the biggest retail and entertainment center in the world, with 15 million square feet of shops, a theme park, a water park — and the world's tallest indoor roller coaster,...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, China, Gardens and Parks, Beijing (China), International Travel
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The Interview: Larry Harding, president of High Street Partners
About 20 of High Street Partners' employees are based at its Annapolis headquarters. The rest of its 160 workers are spread around the world, from California to London to Shanghai — which makes sense, considering its niche.
The company helps...Tags: Brazil, Marketing, Concerts, China, Annapolis
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The Interview: Carolyn Y. Woo
As a teenager attending a Catholic school in Hong Kong in the 1960s, Carolyn Y. Woo never imagined that her studies were helping prepare her to one day lead Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, one of the world's largest international humanitarian...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, Roman Catholicism, Colleges and Universities
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Richard K.C. Hsieh
Richard K.C. Hsieh, a public health specialist and former National Library of Medicine official who in retirement traced his family tree back to seventh-century China, died of a heart attack Dec. 31 at his Towson home.
He was 79.
Born in 1932 in...Tags: Heart Attack, Colleges and Universities, China, Family, National Institutes of Health
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'The Amazing Race' recap: Booking troubles
Reality CheckBucky reports on tonight's Amazing Race, possibly from his sickbed:OK, tonight’s recap will be shorter than usual, because I’ve got a major case of flu, pneumonia or possibly one of several paramyxoviridae diseases that I’m not sure what...Tags: Common Cold, Goth (genre), Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation, Transportation Accidents
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Hot spot: Hong Kong
This week marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, and there's no better place to celebrate the start of the lunar calendar than in Hong Kong. 2009 is the year of the Ox -- people born under this sign include President Barack Obama. Hong Kong is one...Tags: Festive Events, Disneyland Park, Barack Obama
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Foreign tourism offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....Tags: Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Ethiopia
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UM scientists study role of wild birds in spread of avian flu
Sun StaffCOLLEGE PARK - In a low-slung building far from virus-plagued Southeast Asia, scientists are leading a sweeping inquiry into the role that migratory waterfowl and other wild birds might play in spreading avian flu. The research is one groundbreaking...Tags: The Ohio State University, Epidemics and Plagues, Wildlife, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Animals
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UM to conduct human tests of avian flu vaccine
Sun StaffThe University of Maryland School of Medicine and two other institutions next week will begin human tests of a vaccine designed to combat avian influenza - widely feared for its potential to cause the next global pandemic . The vaccine is designed to...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Epidemics and Plagues, National Institutes of Health, Newspaper and Magazine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Feeding the world, poisoning the planet
Sun StaffFirst of five articles AASEN, Netherlands -- Leopold Hendrick admits a visitor through the locked doors of the world's first bureaucracy dedicated to tracking and taxing animal waste, a kind of manure IRS. The government administrator apologizes for...Tags: Bodies of Water, England, Netherlands, Rivers, Animals
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Woman in Md. hospital monitored for SARS
Sun StaffA 26-year-old Hong Kong woman who traveled to the United States last week is under watch at a Baltimore hospital as the state's first potential SARS patient, and nine of her family members have been isolated in a Bolton Hill apartment building. The...Tags: Teen-agers, Hospitals and Clinics, Symptoms, Family, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Aggressive steps to contain SARS working, experts say
Sun StaffEncouraged by successes in Vietnam and elsewhere, public health experts say that quarantines, border checks and other aggressive measures to contain SARS are working and may prevent it from becoming a persistent scourge. "It sure as hell can be...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Epidemics and Plagues, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections
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