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$2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020
Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Conservation, Financial Aid, Genetics
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50 years ago, Baltimore and other U.S. cities feared missile strike
For anyone growing up in the 1950s, black-and-white television images of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatening Western leaders with his "We will bury you!" statement were more than a little frightening. In an era when communism and the nuclear...
Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Fidel Castro, Russia, Weaponry, Nuclear Weapons
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Bigger runway, other upgrades sought for Harford airport
The Harford County Airport in Churchville has never been anything fancy – a small administrative building (called the FBO, or "fixed-base operator") with a public computer and donated couches, some basic airplane hangars, a couple of grassy...Tags: Harford County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Maryland State Police, Cecil County, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Saturday's birthday celebration a historic event at Benjamin Banneker Museum
Friends and descendants of Benjamin Banneker gathered Nov. 10 to mark the 281st birthday of the famed African-American astronomer and mathematician who is also known for his work surveying the land that eventually became Washington, D.C. But this time...
Tags: Harriet Tubman, Catonsville, Veterans Day, Museums, Slavery
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Richard Belzer: Unimpressed with Bethesda?
The Baltimore SunActor Richard Belzer, longtime star of "Law & Order: SVU" -- or as Baltimore prefers, of "Homicide" -- hit Bethesda this weekend to promote his new book. Belzer's latest project is "Dead Wrong," his examination of four 1960s assassinations -- President...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Martin Luther King Jr., The Washington Post, Richard Belzer, Marilyn Monroe
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Havre de Grace: Happy Thanksgiving, HdG, have a wonderful day
Happy Thanksgiving dear readers, Happy Turkey Day, too! I pray that your Thanksgiving celebration is a delightful affair and one for which you have much to be thankful. To all you travelers or folks who have family and friends who will be traveling, safe...Tags: Entertainment Events, Lung Cancer, Music, Christianity, Havre de Grace
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Former Md. Sen. Clarence Mitchell III has died
Clarence M. Mitchell III, who helped steer a sweeping desegregation measure through the General Assembly, died Thursday of cancer at Seasons Hospice at the Northwest Hospital Center. He was 72. Mr. Mitchell became the nation's youngest black legislator...
Tags: Primaries, Bolton Hill, George Davis, Cancer, Local Elections
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Needed: A new foreign policy
On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He was correct in his indictment of the Obama administration for its numerous failures --...
Tags: Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Ronald Reagan, Iran
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Overturned fuel tanker closes I-95 to northbound traffic for seven hours
Two of the three lanes for northbound traffic on I-95 were re-opened Tuesday afternoon, about seven hours after an overturned fuel tanker truck caused major delays for motorists along the Harford County portion of the interstate highway. The crash, which...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Harford County, Maryland State Police, Pikesville, Aberdeen
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Taxes and job creation
Mitt Romney parrots the standard Republican line that raising marginal tax rates for top income earners will stifle job creation ("Battle is joined over jobs, taxes," Oct. 4). Just once I would like someone to point out that employees of these small...Tags: Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan
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50 years ago: County approves $200,000 for Harford Memorial expansion
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, Oct. 4, 1962: The county commissioners approved a request 50 years ago of the Harford Memorial Hospital for an appropriation of $200,000 for an addition to be added. The new construction was...Tags: Shingles, Injuries and Wounds, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Courtland, Hospitals and Clinics
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BSO to perform Bernstein's 'Kaddish'
Leonard Bernstein, the brilliant American conductor and composer, did not just wear his heart on his sleeve. All his worries were clearly exposed as well.
This comes through in many of his compositions, where there's a palpable sense of struggle —...Tags: Claire Bloom, Music, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Judaism, Leonard Bernstein
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