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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: Physical Conditions, Cleft Lip and Palate, Medical Services, Birth Defects, 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: National Hurricane Center, Weather Warnings, Belize, Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters
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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: New York City, Lakes and Ponds, CBS Corp., Television, Elections
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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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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: Hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Ida (2009), Tropical Storms, Disasters
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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: Police Arrests, U.S. Military, Newspaper and Magazine, Defense, 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: Civil Rights, Advanced Training, United Nations, Kidnapping, Habeas Corpus
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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: Civil Rights, Advanced Training, Diplomacy, United Nations, Defense
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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: Murder, U.S. Military, Embezzlement, Diplomacy, Companies and Corporations
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Unearthed: Fatal Secrets
Sun StaffThe 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 December when his wife, Amelia, watched as...Tags: Murder, U.S. Military, Embezzlement, Diplomacy, Companies and Corporations
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U.N. group urges release of American in Nicaragua
Reuters(Reuters) - A United Nations group has called for the immediate release of a U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering, concluding that he was wrongly convicted, his supporters said on Wednesday....Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Department of State, Civil Rights, Czech Republic, Judges
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