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Memorial Day 2013 TV programming and marathons
Channel Guide MagazineMemorial Day 2013 in the United States is Monday, May 27. Leading up to and including that day, over Memorial Day 2013 weekend, there will TV programs remembering veterans; special programming of other sorts; and also several programming marathons of... -
Rabies vaccination clinics make it easy to keep pets safe
Our local Pet Valu store, at 5007 Honeygo Center Dr in Perry Hall, is bringing a VIP Pet Care Veterinary Clinic to our neighborhood. This nonemergency vet care clinic features vaccinations and micro-chipping among its services for dogs and cats. In...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Perry Hall, Belair Road, Perry Hall High School, Human Interest
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5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC
Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...
Tags: SUNY Nassau Community College, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Conservation, Business
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LETTER: No Shortage Of Doctors In Connecticut
I would like to correct an impression made in Monday's lead editorial regarding the supply of physicians [May 13, Malpractice Bill Should Die"]. The editorial stated that "Doctors are not exactly itching to practice here," implying that Connecticut has...Tags: Malpractice, General Practitioners, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics
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Motorcade for injured military members to move through region
A motorcade of police vehicles escorting wounded military service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to New York City will cause roving lane closures on multiple area highways Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, New York City
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Wounded veterans' partners get scholarships to UMUC
Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan,...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Afghanistan, Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Department of Defense
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Sacrifices lead to prime opportunity for G.G. Smith
Moving around has always been a big part of new Loyola basketball coach G.G. Smith's life. As a child whose father, Tubby, was a rising star in the college basketball coaching ranks, Smith spent time growing up in college towns like Columbia, S.C.,...
Tags: Tennessee Technological University, Sports, Kentucky Wildcats, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports
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Boston bombing amputees face tough, costly recovery
BOSTON — Tammy Duckworth still remembers the anger she felt when well-wishers offered encouragement after she lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down over Iraq in 2004. "I thought, how the heck is my life ever going to get back to normal?...Tags: Military Equipment, Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Tammy Duckworth
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Tom Coburn, Parties and Movements, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Mark Wright, Fort Meade (military base)
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Marylander who died of rabies contracted disease from kidney transplant
The first Marylander to succumb to rabies since 1976 developed the virus through a kidney transplant that took place more than a year before the Army veteran died of the disease in February, national health and defense officials said Friday. Tests...
Tags: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Defense, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Syphilis
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Dr. Jacquelin Perry dies at 94; polio specialist
The country was in the grip of a polio epidemic in the 1950s when orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jacquelin Perry began performing spinal surgeries in Downey that helped paralyzed survivors of the disease regain mobility. When some of the same patients...
Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Therapists, University of California, Los Angeles, Hospitals and Clinics
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Md. military bases brace for reductions
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea, some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down and routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday....
Tags: Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Howard County, Job Layoffs, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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