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Hopefully, someone might learn something
The Baltimore SunIn a New Yorker cartoon from thirty years ago, a man turns to another in a bar and asks belligerently, "Hopefullywise? Did I understand you to say hopefullywise?" There you have the hopefully brouhaha encapsulated. The Wrong People, the sloppy, trendy...Tags: Microsoft Corp., Facebook, Netherlands, The Happiest News!
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The dirty secret inside your Xbox 360 ... revealed
In its own special way, my Xbox 360 let me know it was time for some spring cleaning this week. I could've danced with Bill Gates' minions and mailed in my system for service. Instead, like Sarah Palin, I went rogue. Before we begin, let's get...
Tags: Sarah Palin, DVDs, Microsoft Corp., Gaming, YouTube
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Apple iPad, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Biography (genre)
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Steve Jobs, old-fashioned visionary
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died this week after a long battle with cancer, is rightfully being lauded as a visionary, a person who brought technology seamlessly into our lives and who could all but see the future in his development of new ideas that...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, Apple iPhone, The Walt Disney Co., Business Enterprises
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Counting on the generosity of the crowd
Robert Stone was a healthy baby until he was 13 months old. Then, over three or four days, he became unresponsive and lost the use of his limbs. His bewildered parents put him through one medical test after another, each yielding inconclusive results....Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Research, Business, Finance, National Institutes of Health
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'True Blood' blog: Season 4, Episode 3, 'If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?'
"Sorry." -- Eric Northman
I think it's important to list the most frightening things about this crazy, muddled installment of "True Blood." Ready? In descending order:
5. A child-like Eric killing Sookie's fairy godmother (apparently when this happens...Tags: Toy Industry, Alan Ball, Natural Gas, Microsoft Corp., Nicole Polizzi
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Out of history: Md. pages lament program's end
Donald F. Munson grew up around politics, but it wasn't until he became a congressional page in the early 1950s that he decided to make a career of it. The Washington County Republican, who served 36 years in the Maryland General Assembly, met Gerald R....Tags: Nancy Pelosi, South Bend (St. Joseph, Indiana), Donald F Munson, Gabrielle Giffords, Roscoe G Bartlett
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Neighbors connecting in disasters
Have you ever noticed how people just seem to know your business around here? Maybe it's bred into the culture, part of our rowhouse roots or that whole smallest-big-city thing, but no man is an island in Baltimore. I remember grilling lamb chops in...Tags: Hurricanes, Japan, Diabetes, Purdue University, Mass Media
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Police escort variety of officials to events
Animal Kingdom, the thoroughbred that won this year's Kentucky Derby, got a police escort to Pimlico for the Preakness. Wounded war veterans got escorts to Orioles games. Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell got an escort to the Grand Prix. Police...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Safety of Citizens, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Boston Red Sox
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Tech firms, lawmakers target spam, e-mail fraud
Sun StaffMarci De Vries, a Baltimore marketer, won't open her e-mail in front of clients, fearful that they'll think she's a pervert when they see some of the subject lines on her screen. Shamik Ghosh, a Laurel business developer, has to delete junk mail from his...Tags: Erectile Dysfunction, Business Enterprises, Computer Networking and Internet, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Yahoo! Inc.
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Investors to get chance to quiz Buffett this weekend over probes
Bloomberg NewsWarren E. Buffett's annual meeting is usually a chance for the billionaire to show how the mistakes of others enrich Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s shareholders. This weekend's gathering might focus on whether Berkshire made missteps. The annual meeting in...Tags: Warren Buffett, Corporate Officers, Buffalo Grove, American International Group, Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated
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All in the family
Sun reporterMaureen Shanklin is fine with you comparing her home to a beehive if, by beehive, you mean a marvel of sound (and loving) organization. As evidence, she could provide this snapshot of her kitchen one fall afternoon: Six-year-old Alexis prattling about...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Christianity, Racism, Minority Groups, Asperger Syndrome
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