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Anne Arundel students build a better, or at least less problematic, crab trap
For years, environmentalists and watermen have been searching for a way to deal with the Chesapeake Bay's "ghost pots" — derelict crab traps that are too deep to retrieve and too problematic to co-exist with marine life. Though the traps have been...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Executive Branch, Government, Siemens
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A St. Mary's College education prepares the whole student for life
Anne D. Neal's recent commentary deriding St. Mary's College of Maryland unfairly paints the school with the same broad brush her organization has used to criticize colleges nationwide ("Cautionary campus tale," May 30). Ms. Neal's group, the American...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Culture, Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Students
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Dr. Ruth H. Singer
Dr. Ruth H. Singer, a retired physician who was a state health administrator and later worked in AIDS and HIV treatment at Chase Brexton Health Services, died of pancreatic cancer May 27 at her North Baltimore home. She was 69. "What one loved about Ruth...
Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Multiple Sclerosis, Baltimore Museum of Art, Health and Safety at School, General Practitioners
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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: General Electric Company, Procedural Sedation, University of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Healthcare Provider
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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: Baseball, Culture, New Year's Day, Television Industry, Music
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...
Tags: Radio, Authors, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Columbia University
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Get your brain in gear at the HoCo STEM Festival
Calling all kids interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related activities? The first annual HoCo STEM Festival is June 9, 1 to 4 p.m., at Howard Community College. This free community event is the brainchild of the Committee to...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Under Armour Inc., Music, Biology, Standards
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Alarming declines seen in frogs, salamanders
Some of springtime's more notable heralds appear to be fading away, as a new study finds frogs, toads and salamanders disappearing at an alarming rate across the United States. In what they say is the first analysis of its kind, scientists with the U.S....
Tags: Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior, Biology, Natural Resources, Conservation
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Obamacare's tax on innovation
Government leaders are asking us to out-innovate, out-export and out-work our competitors in order for the United States to turn this economy around. But what if our own government was instituting policies that proved to be some of the biggest obstacles...
Tags: Government, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Instrument Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Catonsville and Arbutus area students in Career and Techology Education honored
Jacob Lutz, a senior in Catonsville High School's Information Technology/IT Programming curriculum, was named the Southwest Area winner of a $1,000 scholarship during the 39th annual Career and Technology Education Student Recognition Reception April 24...Tags: Catonsville, Students, High Schools, Awards and Prizes, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Baltimore's investments in job creation
A strong and sustainable 21st century economy can only be built from the bottom up. And today, as President Barack Obama visits Baltimore, it is this fact that will drive us to join with him to renew a call for Congress to focus on common-sense...
Tags: Employment, Labor Markets, Employment Opportunities, Baltimore City Community College, U.S. Congress
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...
Tags: Wind Power, Nuclear Power, Johns Hopkins University, Alternative Energy, Global Warming
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