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Cardinal George overplays his hand in bidding for free water
Change of SubjectFriday's print column One can make a case that nonprofit organizations should get free water from the city. Not a good case, mind you, but a case: It says that these institutions are often strapped for cash, so in order...... -
New features coming to Sunday's Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is launching several new features that will augment our regional coverage and appear online and in Sunday print editions.
New medical/science coverage will highlight research being done in Baltimore, news on critical health and...Tags: Science and Technology
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Federal center pays good money for suspect medicine
Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Dietary Supplements, Stanford University, Alzheimer's Disease, Symptoms
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Critics say new wild horse panel is pro-livestock
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A panel of experts chosen to spend two years generating the definitive study on wild horse management in the West is kicking up controversy before it even gets out of the chute. Mustang protection advocates contend the committee...Tags: Conservation, Animal Science, Agricultural Research and Technology, Science, Politics
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Burke's idea to continue free water is all wet
Change of SubjectFriday's print column, below, is a revised and extended version of a blog posting yesterday Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, made a splash, so to speak, Wednesday when he called for allowing religious schools and houses of worship to continue getting...... -
Study: Overfertilizing corn undermines ethanol Rice University researchers find feeding crops too heavily bad for biofuel, environment
HOUSTON -- Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less. A paper in the online edition of the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology shows how...Tags: Mississippi, Fertilizer, Science, Science and Technology, Biofuels
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Gulf oil spill: National parks, fish & wildlife directors head to gulf
GreenspaceInterior Secretary Ken Salazar on Sunday dispatched the head of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, to Mobile, Ala., and the acting head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Rowan Gould, to Houma, La., to help with recovery efforts...... -
Ronald Bracewell, 86; developed techniques used in CT, MRI scans
Ronald Bracewell, the Stanford University polymath who developed mathematical techniques for producing images with radiotelescopes that are now widely used in CT and MRI imaging for medicine, died of a heart attack at his home on campus July 12. He was...Tags: Gaming, Health, World War II (1939-1945), William Proxmire, Explosions
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Cape Cod - Massachusetts
Wood Pond PressNew England's best-known, most popular oceanfront resort area is Cape Cod, an expansive sandbar that stretches out like an arm with a clenched fist into the Atlantic. Cape Cod is multi-faceted, holding attractions for visitors with varying interests....Tags: Toy Industry, Family, Hotels and Accommodations, Fishing, Mayflower Voyage (1620)
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