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Gun research a waste of time, money
Johns Hopkins University receives billions of tax dollars and for the past 23 years they have used these tax dollars to support a Center for Gun Policy and Research ("Gun research is not biased," May 20). What a waste of our tax dollars. Most...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Ben Carson's remarks 'denigrated' homosexuals [Letter]
I have to disagree with Diane Brown ("Only closed minds stifle opposing viewpoints, May 16) on both her key points about Ben Carson's remarks on marriage equality and the opposition to him giving the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins University this...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Fox News Channel (tv network), Gun Control
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Agriculture, Graduation, Entertainment, Science
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...
Tags: Mountains, Environmental Pollution, Energy Resources, Solar Energy, Environmental Issues
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Hopkins students notable in their absence in Charles Village
Loading his earthly belongings into a laundry cart that he rented from Campus Services, Johns Hopkins University freshman Austin Dennis made several trips from his dormitory room to his car on residential Greenway at North Charles Street, opposite the...
Tags: Charles Street, Restaurant and Catering Industry, St. Paul Street, Charles Village, Foods and Beverages
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'Homeless-to-Harvard' woman enthralls graduates
The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.Let's face it. Try as they might, graduation speakers do not always hold the attention of their audiences -- especially if they go on and on and on. Liz Murray, who lived on the streets of New York for several years but earned a psychology degree from...Tags: Heroin, AIDS, Human Accomplishments, Crime, Law and Justice, Graduation
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For Philadelphia Futures director, this college success story was personal
The Philadelphia InquirerFor the last 13 years, Joan Mazzotti has made a public career of helping low-income, first-generation students from Philadelphia's public high schools get into and through college. Quietly, she and her husband, Michael Kelly, also have made it a...Tags: Haiti Earthquake (2010), University of Paris, Graduation, University of Pennsylvania, Separation of Church and State
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The Seattle Times Jerry Large column
Seattle TimesBefore I had my first white hair, I took good health for granted, but I've since developed a taste for health tips extracted from the latest scientific research. It seems that recreational marijuana use, newly legal in Washington, might also be...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Anxiety
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Charity's investment a prescription for profits for drug maker
Milwaukee Journal SentinelWhat happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold...Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Charity, Politics, Medicaid, Teachers
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: Teachers, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Pancreatic Cancer, Health Organizations, American Diabetes Association
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Hopkins gun research is not biased
In reference to "Harford County Council passes resolution condemning state gun law" (May 15), the article quotes a Harford County councilman who questioned the objectivity of gun policy research at Johns Hopkins University because New York City Mayor...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Michael Bloomberg
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Highlights from Johns Hopkins conference call
In light of Johns Hopkins president Ronald J. Daniels accepting the recommendation of a seven-member special committee to explore joining a conference, university athletic director Tom Calder and men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala participated...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), ESPNU (tv network), Lacrosse, Sports
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