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As physicians, we would prescribe a powdered alcohol ban in every state in order to ensure that our children are not recklessly exposed to dangerous products. We should be increasing access to treatment for alcohol use disorders and limiting the marketing of alcohol products to youth. The last thing our children need is another product that is far too easy for them to abuse. - Good morning, Baltimore! Here's what you need to know for Wednesday.
- For the past few months, veterinarians have been able to get diagnostic scans and treatments for their animal patients — mainly dogs and cats, but also birds and other more exotic creatures — at the renowned medical school for humans.
- New tenants coming to the redeveloped Rotunda shopping mall and apartment complex in Roland Park range from a pet store and a kebob restaurant to the Space Telescope Science Institute, which tells the famed Hubble telescope what to explore in outer space. Last year, Hekemian & Co., owner of the Rotunda, announced that the mall would be anchored by a 17,000-square-foot MOM's Organic Market, which is scheduled to open this September, and Cobb Theaters' 35,000-square-foot CineBistro, a multiplex
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- A Baltimore Sun review shows that members of the Baltimore City Council often fail to show up for their committee votes.
- In my work with young students in Vietnam, it has become clear to me that Vietnamese associate America with popular culture and opportunity, while Americans associate Vietnam almost exclusively with the war. While certainly not a uniquely American trait, it is discouraging that we have trouble separating people from politics.
- Mental health advocates and researchers question whether health insurers are meeting state and federal requirements for coverage parity between mental health and medical care. Laws require a patient's access and costs should be no different for those seeking mental health care than for those seeking medical care.
- Polk Audio's presence on its native Baltimore turf is shrinking again. The company that makes speakers and headphones for home sound systems will lose about half of its workforce of more than 80 people in a reorganization by its parent company Sound United, a division of DEI Holdings Inc.
- Pauline G. Piper, a longtime resident of the Wiltondale neighborhood near Towson, died of heart failure March 27 at the Sweet Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Williamstown, Mass. She was 106.
- Does Baltimore need millennials? Perhaps if they behaved better
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- Research by Johns Hopkins University has found that babies are born with some natural smarts, but it is when this innate intelligence is challenged, that these youngsters learn more about the world
- We don't outlaw cars just because people have accidents. Rather, we have automotive safety standards, rules of the road and consequences for reckless driving. Similarly, online poker should not be illegal just because there are computer security concerns. Rather, gaming can be regulated and security issues can be managed.
- Proposed tax credit for businesses that donate money to help K-12 students would benefit private and public schools alike
- Representatives of the U.S. Department of Education will visit Johns Hopkins University this week as part of an ongoing investigation of how the school handles sexual misconduct cases on campus, officials said.
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- Hampden merchants to use Hopkins parking lot for public on evenings and on weekends
- Innovative teacher contract is vital to city schools and not the cause of financial woes
- Maryvale girls lacrosse coach Jessica Randisi would like to forget about the 2014 season.
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- Soaring one minute and floundering the next, Loyola Blakefield has been a model of inconsistency the past two seasons.
- LeRoy B. Mathews, former budget director for American Telephone & Telegraph and band member, died.
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- Gaithersburg-based MedImmune has signed a flurry of partnerships with National Institutes of Health labs in hopes of speeding scientific discoveries and growing the region into a major biotechnology hub.
- Johns Hopkins medical researchers have used an improved imaging technique to detect brain damage in some former National Football League players.
- There are always good reasons to venue a bit out of Anne Arundel County to catch a production at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, but the current offering, "The Addams Family," offer a few extra incentives: Namely, local residents in key roles
- North Baltimore is at the epicenter of scholastic chess, with many tournaments at Poly and Roland Park Elementary/Middle School.
- It is more than 50 years since Emily Post, the guru of etiquette, passed away. Has civility passed away with her? When Speaker of the House John Boehner referred to the president's legislation as "crap," I began to wonder.
- The University of Maryland Baltimore County chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon issued an apology on behalf of the fraternity, whose University of Oklahoma chapter was closed after a video surfaced showing members uttering a racial epithet while singing a chant.
- Johns Hopkins University School of Education, for the second year in a row, has been named the top graduate education program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, the university announced.
- Millions of Chinese speakers around the world watched "Under the Dome," the 104-minute documentary about China's air pollution situation before it was removed by the government. In China, demanding accountability is never OK, even when the topic is as widely known and severe as air pollution.
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- Towson University gets community input as part of its master plan process and gets an earful from area residents, who want more attention paid to neighborhoods and open space.
- A thief had stolen a rare 16th-century book from Italy. It was Marty Hamlin's job to find it, and help bring it home.
- When they are not patrolling the streets and nabbing speeders, hundreds of Baltimore-area police officers are allowed to use their cruisers to pick up groceries, run family errands or shuttle relatives around town.
- Hans G. Goedicke, a renowned Egyptologist who had been chairman of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, died.
- Disney's "High School Musical" is coming to Clarksville. The River Hill Theatre Arts Department promises to have the entire audience singing and dancing along.
- With forecasts calling for up to 10 inches of snow in some areas of the state, 15 Maryland school systems closed Thursday.
- William E. "Bill" Thompson III, a retired food broker who was a volunteer and treasurer of the American Flag Foundation, died.
- President Barack Obama offered his praise of Sen. Barbara Mikulski
- Trisha Ahmed, a Johns Hopkins freshman, had co-authored essays with her father, Avijit Roy, an aetheist who had denounced Muslim extremism and called for greater religious tolerance in his homeland of Bangladesh.
- University authorities relinquished Ferrante Imperato Napolitano's "Historia Natural" to federal authorities in 2013, two years after it was purchased at auction
