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Obama-Xi summit shows the danger of personal diplomacy
Since President Richard Nixon's visit to China in February 1972, American presidents have hoped that building personal rapport with Chinese leaders would strengthen bilateral ties and win political points at home. While Nixon's trip was a diplomatic...
Tags: Hu Jintao, Liu Xiaobo, Entertainment Events, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Housing shows life; can the economy be far behind?
The latest indicator that the U.S. economy is on the upswing can probably be found on the street where you live: It's the "sold" sign planted in the neighbor's yard. Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but the real estate industry is not the moribund mess you...
Tags: Consumers, Realty, Economic Indicator, Consumer Confidence, U.S. Congress
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Maitland, Literature, Brown University
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Sol Kramer, wholesale hobby business owner
Sol Kramer, who turned a Depression-era 15-cent balsa toy airplane business into a leading wholesale hobby empire, died of pneumonia April 24 at Hospice by the Sea in Pompano Beach, Fla. The former Pikesville resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was...
Tags: Hobbies, Toy Industry, Toys, Pikesville, Pneumonia
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M3 Festival rocks on at Merriweather
There are many ways to describe Merriweather Post Pavilion's M3 Rock Festival — passionate, sweaty, loud, over-the-top, sartorially questionable. Sometimes, it's even romantic. Just ask the Australian couple that got engaged while in attendance...
Tags: Festive Events, Entertainment Events
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Cherry blossom festival in the pink for 2013
When it comes to spring color, Washington knows how to put on a show. The National Cherry Blossom Festival blossoms each year to commemorate the gift of some 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo to the nation's capital in 1912. While the festival had...
Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Miss America Pageant, Entertainment Events, Arts, Music Industry
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Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman
Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92.
His wife...Tags: Georgetown University, Annapolis, Health and Safety at School, Korean War (1950-1953), Arlington (Staten Island, New York)
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Catonsville High gets infusion of Japanese culture
Girls in bright yellows, pinks and reds and boys in deep blues and greens zoomed around a conference room at Catonsville High School Thursday in a frenzy to get changed between lunch and fourth period. The 20 students were not Catonsville Comets. They...
Tags: Students, High Schools, Catonsville, Customs and Tradition, Schools
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Celebrating Maryland Day, birthdays, anniversaries
Happy Maryland Day, dear readers! On March 25, the English ships Ark and Dove landed in St. Mary's, loaded with the first colonists for Lord Baltimore to settle here in 1634 as a Catholic colony. March 25 is a national holiday in Greece. Greeks and...Tags: Shamrock, Lent, U.S. Congress, War of 1812, Anglicanism
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Teaching the ABCs of literacy in Laurel
In 2003, 14.5 percent of the U.S. population over the age of 16 lacked "basic prose literacy skills." That means they were either unable to read or understand any written information in English, or were limited to understanding short prose, "but nothing...
Tags: American Legion, Students, National Security Agency, Teaching and Learning, Howard County
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History Matters: Russians ready to take on any Japanese threat 75 years ago
100 Years Ago The iceman cameth From the social notes: "Prof. Charles Kolb of Westminster was the guest Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Barnes. "Mr. Washington Ridgley spent several day last week with Mr. and Mrs. Charles...Tags: Germany, American Red Cross, Howard County, Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln
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March arrives to celebrate Women's History and American Red Cross
It's March, dear readers! Will the old adage of lions and lambs ring true? Will we be in like a lion an out like a lamb, or in like a lamb and out like a lion? One never knows. Will March be traditionally windy? Hold onto your hat and we shall see....Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, American Red Cross, Customs and Tradition, Lent, St. Patrick's Day
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