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A new Ken Burns-produced documentary on cancer premiering on PBS later this month features several patient stories and interviews conducted with clinicians and scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. - I am not looking to make a big deal out of this, but I thought at least one mainstream media critic ought to point out that CNN plans to air what it's calling a "documentary" about George H.W. Bush Sunday night in two hours of prime time, starting at 9.
- The 2014-15 Baltimore Speakers Series will include appearances by Alan Alda, Dan Rather, David McCullough, David Gergen, Ken Burns, Julia Gillard and Olympia Snowe.
- North County High School junior Jack Andraka is versed enough in the sciences to have created a cancer-detection method that has garnered him worldwide acclaim.
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- David Zurawik: Don't trust TV history -- ever. That's the big conclusion I came to this week after starting out on the simple assignment of previewing a two-hour National Geographic special on the Iraq War.
- The Historical Society of Harford County and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation will host a screening of the award winning documentary film "Greenfire" this Friday, Aug. 16th, at 7 p.m. at the society's headquarters in Bel Air.
- With people waiting in line for five days to get into the Supreme Court for its oral arguments on same-sex marriage last week, it's time to livestream the justices in action.
- Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.
- Concert news: LMFAO, Titus Andronicus, Earth Wind & Fire, Big Time Rush
- "The War of 1812," which was produced in association with Washington's WETA, will air at 9 p.m. Monday on Maryland Public Television (MPT) and other PBS stations nationwide. Its premiere is one of the first major events celebrating the bicentennial of the conflict.
- The legacy of Prohibition has been the creation of a 'too big to fail' organized crime syndicate; clearly, the same approach is not going to work with drugs.
- Prohibition: Drug legalization's benefits would not outweigh its costs, a careful examination of history reveals
- A newspaper article from Oct. 13, 1922, tells the tale of federal prohibition agents raiding the farm of a well-known Carroll County political leader. The October 1922 newspaper headline read, "'DRYS' MAKE RAID - Dump 16 Barrels Of Cider At Joseph Wimert's - Released on $2,000 Bond After Arrest For a Hearing In Baltimore Today."
- 750,000 marijuana arrests a year have gotten our society nowhere
