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SPECIAL REPORT, PART 1: The Deadliness Below
247-4768In the summer of 2004, a clam-dredging operation off New Jersey pulled up an old artillery shell. The long-submerged World War I-era explosive was filled with a black tarlike substance. Bomb disposal technicians from Dover Air Force Base, Del., were...Tags: Explosions, Transportation Accidents, Seafood, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mustard
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'We Are Now Beginning Our Descent' by James Meek
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWe Are Now Beginning Our Descent A Novel James Meek Canongate: 296 pp., $24 THE TITLE is also the theme. "We Are Now Beginning Our Descent," the announcement made near the end of an airline flight, stands, in James Meek's new novel, for the power and...Tags: Taliban, Book, Journalism, Afghanistan, U.S. Military
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O.C. family's sticky business
Sun ReporterPart of a series about people, place and rituals that define summer at the beach You think freshly caught seafood is the taste of the beach? A bucket of french fries? A bag of caramel popcorn or a slice of boardwalk pizza? Well, chew on this for a while...Tags: Children, History, Photography, Recipes, Candy
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Getting on their good side
Sun ReporterOf all the strange creatures at the beach - jellyfish floating like ghosts in the waves, blood-sucking deer flies searching the sand for human flesh, gold chain-wearing middle-aged men prowling the nightclubs - none has creeped out as many vacationers...Tags: Disasters, Death, Water Pollution, Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Personal histories
During the late summer of 1918, Americans were gripped by news from the European front as World War I neared its end. They didn't dream that a larger, more deadly battle would soon be fought on U.S. soil.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed about 500,...Tags: Timonium, Lexington Market, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), World War I (1914-1918)
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Photo gallery recalls "Ash Wednesday Storm"
Maryland WeatherNor'easters can do far more damage than merely burying Maryland in snow. On a Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6-7, 1962, one of the most intense coastal storms ever to strike Maryland - summer or winter - pounded the region with snow,......Tags: Religious Festivals, Dewey Beach, North Carolina, Disasters, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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Md. battens down for Isabel
Sun StaffBeneath deceptively clear, blue skies, Marylanders pushed their preparations for Hurricane Isabel yesterday, securing homes, businesses and boats, and rushing their harvests to beat the heavy rains and gales expected tomorrow. Isabel, which had packed...Tags: FEMA, Employees, Moving and Storage, North Carolina, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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2001 was prolific for Marylanders
Special To The SunAmid the tumults of 2001, this region's authors and publishers have stayed by their keyboards and their cash-flow charts, producing new books for the general reader. Here, accordingly, is the annual try at a census of such works, by Marylanders or about...Tags: Langston Hughes, History, Philosophy, Yale University, North Carolina
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Maryland on the menu
Sun StaffWhen Maryland's first Colonists stepped off the Ark and the Dove, they carried little that would generate gastronomic envy - a bit of salted meat, dried peas and hard biscuits left over from the voyage, and some pigs and cows recently purchased from...Tags: Pennsylvania, History, Flour, Mustard, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Isabel goes against the grain, forces farm's corn maze to close
Sun StaffFor three years, Horizon Organic Farm's Amaizing Organic Corn Maze has challenged visitors with its three-mile entanglement of paths. But this year, Tropical Storm Isabel threw the cornfield maze a challenge: high winds and torrential rains that...Tags: Pumpkin, Haunted Houses (attractions), Tropical Storms, Disasters, Natural Disasters
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STATE'S STORM DEATH TOTAL CLIMBS TO 13
August 25, 1933A seaplane was sent today from the Naval Academy to survey the needs of inhabitant on islands in the Chesapeake Bay cut off from the mainland by the devastation of storm and flood. The plane set out this afternoon while the storm-stricken sections of the...Tags: Government, Renovation, Pennsylvania, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation
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A taste for the beach
Sun columnistLike most guys, I once regarded our family's summer trip to the beach as an ordeal. I saw it as a passage fraught with cranky kids, horrendous traffic and mind-numbing delays. For many years my main goal of making the drive from Baltimore to the beach was...Tags: Transportation, Teen-agers, Travel, Seafood, Death
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