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The University of Maryland, College Park is Maryland's flagship public university. Its campus is located in Prince George's County, near the intersection of Interstate 95 and the Capital Beltway. Notable alumni include Steny Hoyer, Sergey Brin and Kevin Plank.
The University of Maryland, College Park is Maryland's flagship public university. Its campus is located in Prince George's County, near the intersection of Interstate 95 and the Capital Beltway. Notable alumni include Steny Hoyer, Sergey Brin and Kevin Plank.
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...
Tags: Human Genome Sciences Inc., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bioterrorism, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Science and Technology
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Using technology to fight cheating in online education
While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...
Tags: Politics, Michael Jackson, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Government
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Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter
LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Teaching and Learning, Applied Physics, Gold and Precious Material, Colleges and Universities
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Does Congress have the heart to avert disability crisis?
Bonnie Lee worked for 12 years as a health technician for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, started her own Web services company, and raised two kids as a single mother in Ontario. Then Bonnie, 51, moved back East to rural Pennsylvania and...
Tags: Politics, The Boston Globe, Media Industry, Interior Policy, Career and Workplace
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Providence College, Charity
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Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments
Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...
Tags: St. Joseph Medical Center, Richard Nixon, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Army
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Great Recession forced all Americans to cut back on medical care
Though the Great Recession took a much larger toll on African Americans and Latinos than on whites, members of all three groups were forced to cut back on medical services as a result of the economic downturn, research shows. Karoline Mertensen and...
Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, Social Issues, Internal Medicine, Medical Research
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John Williams dies at 66; former Rams lineman later started dentistry practice
John Williams, a Los Angeles Rams lineman in the 1970s who went to dental school during his off-seasons and started a dentistry practice in Minneapolis after he retired from football, has died. He was 66.
Williams, who had recently undergone a kidney...Tags: Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Colts, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Big Ten Conference, Super Bowl
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PASSINGS: Sidney W. Benson
Sidney W. Benson Former USC chemistry professor Sidney W. Benson, 93, a chemistry professor who was scientific co-director of USC's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, died Dec. 30 at his home in Brentwood of complications from a stroke, the...Tags: Defense, Injuries and Wounds, Colleges and Universities, Chemistry, West Palm Beach
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PASSINGS: Fred Milano, William Polk Carey, Mike Colalillo
Fred Milano
Doo-wop singer with Dion and the Belmonts
Fred Milano, 72, a singer who made rock 'n' roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s, died Sunday, three weeks after his lung cancer was diagnosed, said Warren Gradus, who...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Defense, Lung Cancer, Injuries and Wounds, Obituaries
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How provocateur Dan Savage became MTV's sex advisor in 'Savage U'
Show TrackerDan Savage couldn’t have predicted he would become a voice of reason for a generation of young adults confused about their sex lives. A controversial sex columnist and alternative newspaper editor, Savage regularly gets stopped at airports and asked... -
Herbert Hauptman dies at 94; won Nobel Prize in chemistry
Herbert Hauptman, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1985 for work uncovering the structure of molecules that accelerated medical research and led to the development of new drugs, has died. He was 94.
His death Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y., was announced...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, X-rays, Documentary (genre), Chemistry, Music
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