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Dr. Ross J. Brechner, ophthalmologist and state epidemiologist, dies at 71
Dr. Ross Joseph Brechner, a mathematician turned ophthalmologist who abandoned private practice for a second career in public health, died Aug. 4 of heart disease at his Catonsville home.
He was 71.
"Ross was a fine ophthalmologist who changed careers...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins University, Mexico, Defense, Surgery
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Sunday reading -- the best of the blogs
Dining@LargeOne of the most gorgeous blog posts I've ever seen showed up last week on Aran Goyoaga's Cannelle et Vanille website -- it's a recipe for Sophie Dahl's Eton Mess and watermelon radishes.Wait until you see what she does with...... -
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Maryland WeatherDear Mr. Roylance, (Written with tongue in cheek.) My lady friend and I are concerned we may have become the harbingers of bad weather to places we have visited on vacations within the past five years. Cases in point: In......Tags: Hurricanes, Hurricane Ike (2008), Parkville, Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters
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'Top Chef Masters' cast announced
Reality CheckFor the next season of Top Chef, it's all about the well-known, not the unknown, as 24 chefs vie for the prize on Top Chef Masters, which debuts June 10.You can read the full press release here. Neil Patrick Harris,......Tags: Douglas, Dining and Drinking, Boston, Top Chef (tv program), San Francisco
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Fort Monmouth communications operations coming to Harford base
Sun reporterInside locked laboratories here, engineers are arming commanders in the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq with technology such as cell phone service, instant messaging and Microsoft Power Point. The fort's specialty is battlefield...Tags: Employees, Alternative Energy, Louis Armstrong, Afghanistan, Migration
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Teams in New Orleans begin their grisly search
Sun National StaffNEW ORLEANS -- Rescue teams searched swamped street after street, house to house yesterday for those still living in this devastated city, as the U.S. health and human services secretary estimated that Hurricane Katrina and the flood that followed...Tags: Hurricanes, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, William J Jefferson, Louis Armstrong, American Red Cross
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Bush vows 'huge' aid effort in 2nd Gulf Coast visit
Sun National StaffNEW ORLEANS - As rescuers intensified their search yesterday for survivors and bodies in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast, President Bush returned to the stricken area to thank relief workers and pledge a "huge effort" to help the region recover from...Tags: Hurricanes, Louis Armstrong, Defense, Arts, George Bush
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$1 million due port, city from Homeland Security
Sun StaffBaltimore and its port will share about $1 million in security money from the Department of Homeland Security, agency officials said yesterday, although they couldn't immediately say where it would be used. The federal agency said yesterday that it had...Tags: Defense, Michael Chertoff, Inner Harbor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Television Industry
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La. reports 4 W. Nile virus deaths
Associated PressSLIDELL, La. - An outbreak of West Nile virus has infected 58 Louisiana residents and killed four, prompting the governor to declare an emergency yesterday and ask for federal aid for more mosquito spraying across this hot, humid and swampy state. The...Tags: West Nile Virus, Hospitals and Clinics, Emergency Planning, Brain, Regional Authority
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Who will fill the vacant City Council seat from District B?
Or maybe the better question is: who will make the recommendation to fill the vacant District B seat? Stacy Head, the former District B representative, would normally be the one to name her own replacement. But now it's possible Mayor Mitch Landrieu...
Tags: Mitch Landrieu, Elections
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Why do we wait for special events to clean up our city?
I've often talked about the dirtiest, most filthy city in America. It's not Detroit or New York; it's New Orleans. And now, because of the Final 4 basketball championships coming to town, we are all about cleaning it up. This happens every few years...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, NCAA Final Four
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Beauty In The Eye of Hurricane Holder
One of the things that modern conservatives have forgotten to do is to stop, enjoy, then support the good things in life. We are instead trained from political birth to think of everything in political terms. Once you are baptized in the Reagan waters...
Tags: Music, Cancer, Ronald Reagan
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