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Firaxis' latest 'labor of love'
For more than four years, a team of 40 or so people in Sparks secretly worked for this Tuesday. In perhaps the biggest day in Firaxis Games' history, the design studio releases "XCOM: Enemy Unknown," a richly detailed and immersive video game that...
Tags: Video Games, Xbox, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Gaming, Steve Martin
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China and Japan provoke a confrontation at sea
China and Japan are making a mountain of a molehill in their territorial dispute over a group of tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku (in Japan) or the Diaoyu (in China). Whatever their name, they're basically just a...
Tags: International Court of Justice, International Law, China, Petroleum Industry, World War II (1939-1945)
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IndyCar driver Sato takes chance, goes for it
Takuma Sato nearly won the Indianapolis 500 in May, but a bold move for the lead relegated the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver to 17th as he spun while trying to pass eventual winner Dario Franchitti on the final lap. His car owner Bobby Rahal...
Tags: Chip Ganassi Racing, Awards and Prizes, Grand Prix of Baltimore, Open-Wheel Racing, Auto Racing
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Brewing trouble in Asian waters
Although Americans wish to focus on the anemic economy and upcoming election, the wider world may intervene. Competing claims over sovereignty in the waters around China — the East China Sea and the South China Sea — threaten to transform from...
Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Petroleum Industry, Government, Taiwan, National Government
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Shootings are God's will, Godlessness or other?
In an interview with Fox News hours before the Aurora gun massacre, George Zimmerman, who stands accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said that the young man's death was "God's plan." Hours after James Holmes used three guns, including a...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), James Holmes, Louie Gohmert, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman
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Michael Phelps still has work left to do
On the first full day of his life as the most-decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps went back to work — those medals don't start winning themselves just because you've hit 19, after all. But first he had to attend to his correspondence. "Thank you Mr....
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Michael Phelps, Shaun White, Lil Wayne, MSNBC (tv network)
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Captain Carl F. Keener, bay pilot
Capt. Carl F. Keener, a retired Chesapeake Bay pilot and World War II Navy veteran, died July 25 from complications of a lung infection at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium.
The longtime Timonium resident was 87.
Carl Franklin Kenner was born in...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Australia, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Panama
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Seafood, produce on tap this weekend in HdG
Yawn, dear readers, Today, Aug. 10 is Lazy Day. Celebrate by lying in a hammock in the cool shade with an iced glass of lemonade and this column, and read on.....yawn. Ray Astor informed me that August commemorates the 67th anniversary of several...Tags: Harford County, Arts, Bars and Clubs, Christianity, Seafood
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'Top Chef Masters' recap: Episode 3, Teppanyaki time
Happy Wednesday! Here we go with episode three: Chefs enter the kitchen still reeling over the wedding mayhem of last week. Quickfire presents a giant ice bar laced with every seafood imaginable. The catch of the day (har har) -- the chefs cannot use...
Tags: Art Smith, Personal Service, Time (magazine), Benihana Incorporated, Brian Boitano
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The atomic age turns 67
This week marks the 67th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Given the fact that 100 million Japanese were prepared to fight to the death to defend their homeland, most historians believe that...
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