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Holiday lights dance to the sound of Christmas music
If there's a downside to the joy of operating a 55,000-bulb holiday light display that's synchronized to popular Christmas music, it's the time it took to program the 30-minute extravaganza: 12 hours of coding for every minute of show, the equivalent of...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Josh Groban, Music, Elvis Presley, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Has Congress nothing better to do than debate military's use of lead?
It is fascinating to read of all these organizations that want to do so much for us. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. Department of Defense to put an end to the ban on women in combat. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Boxer want the...Tags: Armed Forces, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Benjamin L. Cardin, Barbara Boxer, U.S. Congress
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Chris Van Hollen is no friend of Israel
As Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen Jr. eyes a run for the U.S. Senate in 2014, readers deserve to know the truth about his record on Israel and Iran. Some readers seem to believe that democracy ends on Election Day, and that afterward citizens give up...Tags: Lobbying, Elections, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Jerusalem (Israel), U.S. Senate
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Former Navy athletic director J.O. 'Bo' Coppedge dies at 88
The Baltimore SunDuring Kelly Coppedge's final conversation with her grandfather last Sunday, she says he was still thinking about Navy's football team. "He asked, 'When's Navy playing and who are they playing?" Kelly Coppedge recalled Thursday. J.O. "Bo" Coppedge,...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, United States Naval Academy, College Football, College Sports, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl
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Defense contractors, federal employees join to oppose cuts
A Defense Department funding bill has made bedfellows of two groups more likely to be found in opposite corners: federal labor and federal contractors. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the Professional Services Council (PSC)...Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, National Government, National Defense Authorization Act, U.S. Senate
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Women in U.S. military fight for right to serve in combat
As a woman in the Army, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt is barred from serving in the infantry. But that didn't stop commanders in Afghanistan from tapping her when they needed a female soldier to accompany men on their door-kicking missions. Hunt's job on...
Tags: Trials, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, U.S. Congress, American Civil Liberties Union
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Top commanding general visits Aberdeen Proving Ground
Gen. Dennis L. Via, commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, visited several major supporting commands based at Aberdeen Proving Ground on Friday, the post command said. The general's visit highlighted the rapid changes that have taken...
Tags: U.S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Armed Conflicts
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Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says
Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...
Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Breastfeeding, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Detrick (military base), Barbara Boxer
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Obama needs Hagel in the Pentagon
Absent from the discussion about whether former Senator Chuck Hagel would make a good secretary of defense is any focus on lessons learned from personal factors like combat in war, as well as loyalty to the president. As I was grousing about this, my...
Tags: Vietnam, The New York Times, Wars and Interventions, David Petraeus, Central Intelligence Agency
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Military called in to deal with ordnance found in Harwood
The U.S. Department of Defense was called Saturday afternoon to deal with a piece of unexploded ordnance found near a home in Anne Arundel County, fire officials said.
Military officials from Fort Belvoir were to investigate what appears to be decades-...Tags: Annapolis
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More APG tests may cause noise, vibrations nearby
The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, is once again conducting several large detonations likely to generate sound and/or vibration outside the proving ground boundary. The testing began Tuesday and is expected to end on or about...Tags: U.S. Army, Physiology, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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U.S. security, Maryland's economy at risk
For Maryland businesses, the seemingly never-ending political season and the cloud of economic uncertainty that accompanied it were supposed to have subsided at election's end. However, just as we thought we had put the campaign season behind us,...Tags: Defense Equipment, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Technology, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Engineering
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