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Stumped for New Years resolutions? Here's a couple
Happy New Year, everybody. Have you been making some good resolutions? Maybe one of those resolutions was to take down decorations and dispose of the Christmas tree in an ecologically sound way. Don't clog the landfill. Merry Mulch your tree. Remove...Tags: Relay for Life, Linthicum, PTA, Ruby Tuesday Incorporated, Clarksville
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Catonsville resident teaching children in Nicaragua
Eating beans and rice twice a day for the past year has left Sarah Dobson craving the variety of flavors back home in Catonsville. Missing Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July left her homesick during those quintessential American holidays. Still, the...
Tags: Financial Aid, Schools, Rotary International, Ellicott City, Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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Hopkins team helps children with face-saving surgery
While still attending undergraduate school, Dr. Patrick J. Byrne made a promise: If he had the good fortune to go into medicine and become a doctor, he would do something for the underserved.
That promise has transitioned from volunteering on medical...Tags: Medical Services, Trips and Vacations, Cleft Lip and Palate Reconstruction, Cleft Lip and Palate, Surgery
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New storm brewing in the Caribbean
Maryland WeatherUPDATE, 4:40 p.m.: Tropical Storm Paula has formed today in the western Caribbean southeast of Cozumel, where hurricane warnings were posted today. Paula has top sustained winds of 60 mph. It was forecast to become a hurricane on Tuesday, and to......Tags: Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Disasters, Caribbean Islands, Belize
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'Survivor: Nicaragua' recap: Three hours later, a winner
Reality CheckBucky reports on the Survivor finale. Thanks so much for the assist this season, B!:So, we come to the Survivor finale, with five players remaining: the group that we named the Pond Scum Alliance last week: Holly, Chase and Sash,......Tags: Elections, Lakes and Ponds, Jimmy Johnson, New York City, CBS Corp.
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New tropical depression forms as season fades
Maryland WeatherThe National Hurricane Center is tracking the 11th tropical depression to form this season in the Atlantic basin. The 2009 hurricane season officially ends at the end of this month.The new storm, designated Tropical Depression 11, got its act together...Tags: National Hurricane Center, Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters, Tropical Storm Ida (2009)
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Jimmy Johnson on 'Survivor: Nicaragua'?
Reality CheckAll right, it's a weird day for reality TV speculation, therefore here's another post whose headline ends with a question mark.But the Dallas Morning News is reporting that former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson is a contestant on Survivor: Nicaragua, which.....Tags: Jimmy Johnson
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'Survivor: Nicaragua' to be a battle of the ages
Reality CheckLast we talked about Survivor around here, I was reporting the rumor that Jimmy Johnson is in Nicaragua taking part in the season that's currently filming. That would make him among the oldest folks to have competed on the show.Today's......Tags: Jimmy Johnson
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A Carefully Crafted Deception
Sun StaffA dangerous truth confronted John Dimitri Negroponte as he prepared to take over as U.S. ambassador to Honduras late in 1981. The military in Honduras -- the country from which the Reagan administration had decided to run the battle for democracy in...Tags: National Government, Democracy, Armed Conflicts, Patrick Leahy, Kidnapping
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A Survivor Tells Her Story
Sun StaffDay after day, for 78 days, Ines Consuelo Murillo was tortured by a secret Honduran military intelligence unit called Battalion 316. Her captors tied the 24-year-old woman's hands and feet, hung her naked from the ceiling and beat her with their fists....Tags: Theft, Advanced Training, Civil Unrest, Cuba, Police Investigations
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A survivor tells her story
Sun StaffDAY AFTER DAY, for 78 days, Ines Consuelo Murillo was tortured by a secret Honduran military intelligence unit called Battalion 316. Her captors tied the 24-year-old woman's hands and feet, hung her naked from the ceiling and beat her with their fists....Tags: Advanced Training, Cuba, Armed Forces, Police Investigations, Costa Rica
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When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty.
Sun Staff(First in a series) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The search for Nelson Mackay Chavarria - family man, government lawyer, possible subversive - began one Sunday in 1982 after he devoured a pancake breakfast and stepped out to buy a newspaper. It ended last...Tags: National Government, Police Investigations, Corporate Crime, Embezzlement, Children
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