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Study of history earns honors for two students
Congratulations to Chris Messer, a Folly Quarter Middle School student, and Emma Halley, a sophomore at Glenelg High School. Chris recently earned a first place in the junior division, while Emma earned a second place in the senior division at the...Tags: American Cancer Society, Students, U.S. Military, Teaching and Learning, Health Organizations
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Family values and the new economy
My mother went into paid work soon after my father's clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work....
Tags: Robert B. Reich, Labor Legislation
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Reservoir High students present their research at conference [Fulton/Highland]
Several Reservoir High School students made presentations at the annual Howard County Public School System Student Learning Conference. Their presentations were about the research and internships that they have been involved in throughout this year....Tags: Students, Schools, Public Schools, Swimming, Research
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Common sense on Plan B
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...
Tags: Birth Control, Health Treatments, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, American Academy of Pediatrics, Barack Obama
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Bill to give pregnant workers more rights passes Senate
Legislation that would strengthen the rights of pregnant women in the workplace has now passed both chambers of the General Assembly and will go to the governor's desk for signing. The Senate passed the House version of the bill Thursday allowing it...
Tags: Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Justice System, Judges, Labor Legislation
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America lags on plain speech
The Internet is changing how leaders talk. Leaders from Rome to Beijing and beyond are helping usher in a new era of plain speaking. But American leaders are lagging behind, stuck in old patterns of windy and obfuscatory speech. Around the globe, what's...
Tags: Reddit Inc., Barack Obama, Alan Greenspan, Unemployment, FBI
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Speed limits soon in rearview mirror
How easy to forget ("Higher speed limit law moves forward," March 21). Do some of you old timers remember the fuss we made when the speed limit on Interstate 95 was changed to 65 miles per hour? Now, 70 miles per hour is almost normal. So it will be...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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Honoring Harriet Tubman
President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...
Tags: Dorchester County, Barack Obama, Transportation, Harriet Tubman, Human Rights
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Bill would offer more protection to pregnant workers
When Peggy Young became pregnant with her third child, she said a supervisor told her she was a liability and not to come back to work as a UPS package delivery driver in Landover until she had the baby. "I was very upset because I wanted to work; I...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Employment Opportunities, Health and Safety at Work, Jamin B. Raskin
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Next step for feminism: Go global
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," which revealed the mind-numbing ennui of the mid-20th century American housewife, and a great deal of ink has been spilled describing how far we still...
Tags: Lacrosse, Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Department of State, HIV
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'The Civil War and American Art' is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects on the conflict
The lone Union sentry stands atop Federal Hill, outlined against an ominous orange/red sky. In the distance, the tops of the Washington Monument and several spires rise above the city, as straight and determined as the rifle held in the soldier's left...
Tags: Sociology, Music, Museums, Harvard University, Gun Control
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