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This month, the trade writing committees of the Congress announced new legislation designed to advance human rights through trade. But the bill does not say what human rights the Congress includes, how policymakers will use free trade agreements to advance human rights, or explain how the U.S. will assess whether these human rights are being adequately respected.

Emma Donoghue is the latest in a long list of notable Irish writers who have been brought to Columbia by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. Donoghue headlines this organization's 37th annual Irish Evening on Friday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Robert H. Chambers III, whose tenure as the seventh president of McDaniel College was marked by a renovated campus, increased enrollment, and expansion abroad, died.

Dorothea "Doris" von Kessler, a retired science researcher, died of cancer Sunday at her Sparks-Glencoe home. She was 78.

Mount St. Mary's University, the second-oldest Catholic university in America, named the chief executive officer of a Los Angeles based private equity, merger and acquisitions firm as its new president.

Rhoda Dorsey, the first woman president of Goucher College, has died, a college spokeswoman said Saturday.

Dr. Gordon Feldman, a Johns Hopkins physicist that contributed to discovery of the antiproton, died in his sleep Wednesday at Symphony Manor Assisted Living from complications of Alzheimer's.

Dr. Gary S. Hill, an internationally renowned renal pathologist and the former chief of pathology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 74.

Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he came to think of as "Archimedes' brain in a box." Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, lost writings of the Greek mathematician, which had been converted into a prayer book.

A federal court judge rejected a last-ditch effort by prosecutors to keep Barry H. Landau behind bars while the New York collector awaits trial on charges he pulled off the country's biggest-ever theft of national memorabilia over a span of years.

Genetic testing has helped identify victims of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and has made denial of atrocities untenable.