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Sommer, former Hopkins dean, to accept prize in Israel
Alfred Sommer, a former Johns Hopkins University dean who discovered the importance of vitamin A in preventing child blindness, will accept an award Sunday in Israel honoring his contributions to preventive medicine. Sommer was chosen as a laureate of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Physical Conditions, Vitamin A, Dietary Supplements
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Towson teacher injured in Boston bombing is back in Maryland
Erika Brannock saw flashes of yellow and orange, and she felt as if her body was falling in slow motion when the first of two homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon exploded inches away from where she stood near the finish line. She heard people crying...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Hospitals and Clinics, Cal Ripken, Jr., Boston Marathon, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Things you need to know for Monday
Good morning, Baltimore. There's a leaker in jail next door, Game of Thrones is a fantasy, and Turkey's flirting with anarchy. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for June 3, 2013. Bradley Manning, the whistleblower accused of releasing a giant...
Tags: Doctor Who (tv program), Bradley Manning, Iran, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Game of Thrones (tv program)
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Civilization has no place for drones
In his recent speech, President Barack Obama set forth what he described as narrow, reasonable guidelines for using drones to carry out targeted killings overseas. The U.S., he said, will only use drone strikes "against terrorists who pose a continuing...
Tags: Extradition, International Law, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, Cuba
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Threats of force won't work with Iran
Your recent article on U.S. relations with Iran highlights the sensible advice given by former American ambassador Ryan Crocker, who is part of the Iran Project ("Ex-ambassador: Soften approach toward Iran," May 27). This group includes three dozen...
Tags: Lobbying, Iran, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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Diplomacy before arms in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal war against his domestic opponents has taken some 70,000 lives so far and reduced much of the country to rubble, yet there's no sign either side has gained a decisive advantage in the two-year-old conflict. The...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda, International Organizations
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A marriage of music plays in Columbia
Chamber music players typically spend so much time together that it can seem like a professional marriage. In the case of Duo Amaral, it's an actual marriage. These husband and wife guitarists perform for the Sundays at Three series on May 19 at Christ...
Tags: Music, Anglicanism, Federal Hill, Washington, DC, Christianity
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Budge set to shift gears from activist to alderman
Joe Budge has been a familiar face at Annapolis city council meetings, speaking out on issues related to downtown. Later this month, he'll move from the public microphone to the dais as he's sworn in as the council's newest alderman. Budge, 60, was...
Tags: Elections, Local Elections, Local Government, Business, Josh Cohen
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End U.S. military aid to Israel
Your report on the Israeli strike on missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah shows how the warmongering nation of Israel continues to use the billions of dollars in military aid it receives from the U.S. every year to wage war against its neighbors —...
Tags: U.S. Military
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What will happen to weapons the U.S. gives to Syria's rebels?
Does it occur to anyone in the left-wing Obama administration that arming Syrian rebels with modern weapons will result in arming a group of fighters who live just across the border from Israel ("The best bad option," May 2)? Does it dawn on anyone on...
Tags: Barack Obama, Parkville, Wars and Interventions
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Israel's critics ignore discrimination in the Arab and Muslim world
The article by Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali on Israel's supposed discrimination against Arab-American and Muslim citizens is missing a big part of the story in the Arab and Muslim world ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). Former Secretary of...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Islam, Judaism, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Henry Kissinger
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Opening the door to peace
Given how low the expectations were for President Barack Obama's highly publicized trip to the Middle East, it may not be saying much to declare that he exceeded them. But given the precarious state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, it would also be...
Tags: United Nations, Trips and Vacations, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu
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