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Officials recommend closing West Friendship Elementary
Officials with the Howard County Public School System Thursday night recommended closing West Friendship Elementary School, the oldest school in the county. The recommendation came during the presentation of the annual feasibility study at the Board...Tags: Schools, Teaching and Learning, Middle Schools, Students
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Morgan professor accused of grant money kickback scheme
A Morgan State University professor accused of defrauding the National Science Foundation also paid out Department of Defense grant money to students in exchange for kickbacks, federal prosecutors allege in a court filing. Manoj Kumar Jha, director of...
Tags: Bribery, Morgan State University, Financial Aid, Teaching and Learning, Science
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New APG supercomputers can do a quadrillion operations in a second
Aberdeen Proving Ground continues to make computing history, as it formally unveiled a new supercomputer system Monday, one of only five such Army facilities in the country to have the sophisticated equipment. The supercomputers, named "Hercules" and...
Tags: Electronics, U.S. Department of Defense, Technology, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Manhattan (New York City)
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Long-banned chemicals found in pregnant mothers' blood
As a reminder of just how persistent some toxic chemicals can be, a Johns Hopkins-led research team reports finding traces of long-banned DDT and PCBs along with other contaminants in the blood of 50 pregnant women checked from Baltimore and its suburbs. ...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Health and Safety at School, Mining
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Dr. Martin Helrich
Dr. Martin Helrich, a pioneering anesthesiologist who had headed the department of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Sunday of complications from heart disease at his Pikesville home. He was 91. "Martin was so...
Tags: New York City, Medical Specialization, U.S. Public Health Service, University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, College Park
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Robert Lee Lyles Jr. of Annapolis, former Md. Health Care Commission member
Robert Lee Lyles Jr., who had two careers in his 69 years and excelled at each, died May 27 at his home in Annapolis. A scientist, physician and state policy adviser, Dr. Lyles "was a modern renaissance man with a tremendous curiosity," said Gene Ransom,...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Procedural Sedation, University of Chicago, Science, Prostate Cancer
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Forward strides for stroke survivors
One night in 1999, a rash of frightening sensations hit Paul Titus all at once. His left arm went numb. His left eye began twitching. He couldn't speak without slurring. Unaware what the symptoms meant, he was slow to call for help. When his...
Tags: Veterans Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, Stroke, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Conditions
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Six to be added to Edgewood High School Hall of Fame
Six people will be added to the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame during afternoon and evening ceremonies to be held at the school on Wednesday, June 5. The six will join 20 others inducted during the first two years of the program which honors alumni,...
Tags: Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Financial Aid, Aberdeen Proving Ground, University of Oklahoma, Anthrax
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Howard system looks ahead to middle school redistricting
Construction has already begun on a new Howard County middle school, set to open in Hanover's Oxford Square development in August 2014. The system is already looking to how it will fill that school with students as the middle school redistricting...Tags: High Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Middle Schools, Renee Foose
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Lou Gehrig's Disease, American Diabetes Association, Internal Medicine, National Institutes of Health
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Harford County Council condemns state gun law
The Harford County Council passed a resolution Tuesday, by a 6-1 vote, criticizing the state's new gun safety bill. The resolution says the Firearms Safety Act, which bans the sale of 45 kinds of rifles and magazines and requires "law-abiding citizens"...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, New York City, Local Government, Interior Policy, Firearms
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Benefactor doesn't dictate direction of research
Editor: In response to "Harford County Council passes resolution condemning state gun law" (May 15th, 2013): The article quotes a Harford County Councilman who questioned the objectivity of gun policy research at Johns Hopkins University because New York...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Webster, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Interior Policy
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