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Nora Roberts' $30,000 scholarship awarded to Allyson E. Wallace
On May 29, at Boonsboro High School’s annual senior awards ceremony, Dan Aufdem-Brinke of the Nora Roberts Foundation announced that Allyson E. Wallace has been named the 2013 Nora Roberts Scholarship recipient. The $30,000 scholarship was set...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Financial Aid, Awards and Prizes, Culture
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George Michael: The president's empty promises
There is a deep and pervasive disease in the current presidential administration. Hope and Change has turned into Hype and Chance. In last Saturday’s Herald-Mail, an AP article recounted the president’s defense of our government’s...Tags: George W. Bush, Government, Barack Obama, Justice System, Lawyers
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Our right to privacy has been going horribly wrong for a long time
So the government has been tracking every single Verizon phone call for seven years. That explains how Michelle Obama got her mitts on my secret bread pudding recipe. Actually that’s not completely true. I don’t even have Verizon. I have...
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., David Petraeus, Computer Networking and Internet, Al Gore, National Security Agency
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HCC student writes story for magazine
Hagerstown Community College student Jeremiah Sater of Waynesboro, Pa., recently published his first short story, “Planet 239,” in the online literary magazine The WiFiles. According to Sater, “Planet 239” tells the story of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Fiction, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Authors, Literature
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Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90
Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s comedy “All in the Family,” died Friday at the age of 90. Stapleton died of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Norman Lear, Everybody Loves Raymond (tv program), Television
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We know what's healthy, right?
We are entering a time (or maybe we’ve always been here) where everything we thought we knew about health is being called into question. Everyone believed margarine was healthier than butter until it turned out it wasn’t. Medications that...
Tags: Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Nutrition, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure
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How to survive a zombie apocalypse
chrisc@herald-mail.comZombies. Giant super-storms. Runaway climate change. Alien invasions. Sneak attacks by invading enemy nations. Thrilling stuff of end-of-life-as-we-know-it science fiction books and movies. But as recent news coverage reminds us — Superstorm...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, World War Z (movie), Disasters and Accidents, Tornadoes, Meteorological Disasters
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Apple, Enron share a connection
As corporations go, Apple and the late and unlamented Enron would appear to be about as polar opposite as two companies can get. Apple manufactures innovative, useful, world-class electronics. Enron produced obtuse numbers in nonsensical accounts that it...
Tags: Taxation, Tim Cook, Internal Revenue Service, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Lloyd Waters: No political apathy in Ohio, Baltimore or D.C.
No doubt political apathy is on the rise. More people seem to be avoiding politics and not voting these days. Maybe we should send a committee out to Ohio to study the voting patterns of that state. Perhaps there’s a fix. Although I didn’t...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Elections, Jimmy Carter, Interior Policy, Barack Obama
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Allan Powell: Historic judgments need repeated
The sordid results of Senate voting on April 17 reflect clearly the loss of common sense and the courage to stand up to the political clout of the National Rifle Association. When the vote count became public, two thoughts came to mind. First was the word...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Lobbying, National Rifle Association of America
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Norwegians are my kind of people
timr@herald-mail.comTen years ago I was sitting in a hut in a remote outpost in Norway with a dozen members of my New York-based mountaineering club and a beyond-stoic Norwegian guide by the name of Bjorn. The majority of the club members on that particular evening had...Tags: Television Industry, Television, Entertainment, Norway
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Army judge accepts guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case
Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “...
Tags: Judges, U.S. Department of Defense, Arab Spring, Iraq, Bradley Manning
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