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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, France, Japan, Syracuse University, U.S. Army
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Authors R-Z
Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal,...Tags: Chicago Public Library, Lollapalooza, ESPN (tv network), Frank Lloyd Wright, Music Theater
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CD players dying one car at a time
CD players are going the way of the ashtray, roll-down windows and whitewall tires. Chevrolet is the latest to join the ranks of automakers like Ford who have ditched physical media players in favor of music streamed through onboard systems and...
Tags: Netflix Inc., White Marsh, Computer Hardware, Music, Recording Industry Association of America
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Corona del Mar
Troy Bolus GPA: 4.5 School Activities/Clubs: track, Photography Club Community: peer tutor, Illumination Foundation Awards/Honors: Most Valuable Player varsity track 2012, Best Varsity Jumper 2010-11 Hobbies/Interests: guitar, golf, skiing,...Tags: Instrument Engineering, Financial Aid, University of California, Irvine, Social Sciences, Government
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Michael Phelps headlines first Towson High Athletics Hall of Fame class
The inaugural class of the Towson High School Athletics Hall of Fame, featuring Michael Phelps (2003), Randy Dase (1972), Sue Beeler (1958), Billy Jones (1964), Jaimee Reynolds (1998) and Jack Thomas (1970), will be honored April 19 at halftime of the...
Tags: College Sports, Michael Phelps, Folklore and Mythology, Maryland Terrapins, World Games
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More proof that soda bans would fizzle
Soda bans seem like a good idea in theory. Soda has no nutritional value whatsoever. Worse, it’s a sugar bomb. Given the mounting obesity problem in this country, some might think soda bans are an admiral effort to curb our collective waistline,...
Tags: American Heart Association, Michael Bloomberg, Medical Procedures and Tests, Obesity, New York City
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Proposed soda ban likely to backfire, study finds
After New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, comedian Jon Stewart complained that the proposal "combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, The Daily Show (tv program), New York City
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Where everybody knows your name: Facebook
What if Facebook isn't the intrusive, all-seeing eye that we fear? What if it isn't just a place where workers waste time and young people post regrettable pictures of themselves? What if it is not just a stage for narcissists who think everything...Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Media, Psychology, Science and Technology, Culture
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Helen B. Wolfe, advocate of women's rights
Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79.
With a head of thick...Tags: Buffalo State College , Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Labor Legislation
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Teen dating violence leaves scars, experts say
Sheela Raja remembers treating a victim of teen dating violence who at first felt too ashamed to talk about the experience. Instead, the victim buried the trauma in alcohol until she finally opened up during therapy. Raja, a licensed clinical...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Mental Health, Drugs and Medicines, University of Illinois at Chicago, Substance Abuse
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Title IX law scrutinized as universities cut teams
The men who play baseball and soccer at Towson University, run track at the University of Delaware and wrestle, swim or golf at any number of other colleges all heard the same reason when their teams were cut: Title IX. To meet the federal law's goal of...
Tags: College Sports, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, College Baseball, Separation of Church and State, Finance
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L.A. Philharmonic's young composers program fine-tunes talent
It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a...
Tags: Music Theater, Awards and Prizes, Teaching and Learning, Education, University of California, Berkeley
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