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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Chemical Industry, NASA, Smithsonian Institution, Artists, Timonium
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Cummings calls for end to IRS probe
Arguing that the congressional investigation into the IRS should be concluded, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings said Sunday that closed-door interviews with the agency's staff show neither the White House nor officials in Washington had a hand in targeting...
Tags: Taxation, Tea Party Movement, Darrell E Issa, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore
The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency'...
Tags: Business, Employment Opportunities, Research, U.S. Congress, Small Businesses
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Obama to visit Baltimore next week
President Barack Obama will visit Baltimore next Friday, the second in a series of outings aimed at selling his stalled jobs agenda. The trip follows one the president took this week to Austin, Texas, where he visited a school and a manufacturing plant....
Tags: Republican Party, Trips and Vacations, Inner Harbor, Reince Priebus, Barack Obama
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Where are the STEM jobs?
Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) crisis. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that he wants to...
Tags: Graduation, FWD.us, Justice System, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration
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President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges
Remarks by President Barack Obama this afternoon at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, from the White House. THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Baltimore! (Applause.) Well, it is wonderful to see all of you. Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great...
Tags: Intel Corp., U.S. Congress, Productivity, Labor Markets, Computer Hardware
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IRS follows Obama's lead
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer
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Back Story: Presidents say the darnedest things
Paul Dickson, a Garrett Park resident, loves the origins of words and is a compiler of word books and dictionaries. So imagine my delight and pleasure when my friend, Mary Garson, who is also fascinated with etymology, gave me a copy of Dickson's...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Congress, Ronald Reagan
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What's so terrible about 'portable' classrooms? [Commentary]
There seems to be a consensus that school trailers are horrible, and there is a constant push to build bigger schools so we can get rid of the need for "portable classrooms." At a recent community meeting, Harford school board member Bob Frisch said...
Tags: High Schools, Bill Clinton, Schools, Middle Schools
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Health and Safety at School, Poverty, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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America's just not that into Obama
"You know, I actually believe my own bull----." That's what President Barack Obama once told a reporter. If the man ever uttered a statement that spoke more to his approach to politics, I haven't heard it. Whether it stems from a grandiose...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Political Systems, Parties and Movements, World War I (1914-1918)
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