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Sixth-grader hopes to have hottest recipe at March 11 chili cookoff
Chili cook-offs are definitely hot stuff. Especially when the spicy delicacy is being prepared by young Mitchell Feaga. Mitchell, a sixth-grader at Glenwood Middle School, is just one of dozens of chili afficionados who will participate in "Hotter Than...Tags: Theater, Flea (music artist), Howard County, Foods and Beverages, Jill Clayburgh
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News from West Friendship
Santa Claus is coming to town. St. Nick, atop a shiny red fire engine, is coming to your neighborhood. The jolly elves of West Friendship Volunteer Fire Department will continue their good will North Pole trek for the next few evenings. Kids, and all...Tags: Students, High School Sports, Holiday Vacations, Television, Albert Schweitzer
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Maryland seeks to improve support for mothers to breast-feed
Breast-feeding didn't come easy at first for Sharalyn Webre, who struggled through five months with her first child.
But with more experience, patience and family support, feedings were less complicated with her next two children, including a baby girl...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Science, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Organizations, Nursing
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A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts
When I met a woman I'll call "Mary" in Luwingu, a remote district in northern Zambia, she had already seen three of her children die. She did not know that she had contracted HIV until she arrived at the clinic where for the past few months I had been...Tags: Conservation, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Hospitals and Clinics, HIV, Malaria
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Rule would allow campaign donations by text message
You can text FOOD to give money to UNICEF or text AFRICA to support the International Rescue Committee. Soon you'll be able to contribute via text to a Maryland politician, state officials say.
Regulations to allow campaign contributions by text...Tags: Haiti Earthquake (2010), Federal Election Commission, Baltimore County, Companies and Corporations, Haiti
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Orphans from Colombia seek adoptive homes in Columbia
Rita Allan is a biology teacher in the Howard County school system and was a biologist for 20 years before that, so when she learned that the Colombian boy who would be visiting her family likes science and nature, she took special note of their shared...Tags: Science, Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Skype, Wii, International Organizations
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Local DJ named in drug ring complaint
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the Midnight Sun blog: Darrin Ebron, a Baltimore DJ with tenuous Hollywood connections (he once played Eddie Murphy's wedding!) has been named in a federal complaint as part of a drug ring that transported hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Los...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Buddhism, E-Commerce Industry, Disc Jockeys, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Influx of foreigners troubles Indonesia
From Wire ReportsBANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Indonesia's military asked aid groups in tsunami-stricken areas yesterday to draw up a list of international relief workers - and to report on their movements - as fears arose for the safety of foreigners helping survivors in a...Tags: Earthquakes, Society, United Nations, George Bush, Wars and Interventions
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Need for careful rebuilding also applies to young souls
Sun Foreign StaffKILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka - On the last day of their lives, the friends and playmates of 11-year-old Kirishanthini were at an orphanage overlooking a peaceful lagoon near the sea. When the water came - "It came very fast and black in color," Kirishanthini...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Tsunamis, Sri Lanka, Defense, Employees
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Tsunami aid pledges top $3 billion
Associated PressJAKARTA, Indonesia - Australia promised $764 million - the largest government pledge - to the tsunami relief effort, topping a $674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial donors conference today. World leaders were competing to head the donors...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, United Nations, Australia, Tsunamis, Health Organizations
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Easing southern Asia's powerful thirst
Sun StaffSri Lanka's top beer producer built its reputation on its chilled lagers and full-bodied stouts. But soon after last week's catastrophe, when a tsunami struck the nation's coastline, executives at Lion Brewery in Colombo knew that the best way they...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Tsunamis, Sri Lanka, Health Organizations, Indonesia
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Iraq humanitarian crisis verging on catastrophe
Sun Foreign StaffKUWAIT CITY -- With Iraqi hospitals full of wounded and water shortages made evident by people in southern Iraq drinking from drainage ditches, humanitarian aid workers are warning that the worst for civilians could be yet to come. Hundreds of...Tags: Non Government Organizations, Hospitals and Clinics, United Nations, Parties and Movements, Basra (Iraq)
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