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As vote nears, Olmert acts forcefully to define himself
Thursday, March 16, 2006
John Murphy - - Baltimore Sun
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In the two weeks remaining before Israeli elections for a new parliament and prime minister, the central figure in the campaign does not speak or appear in person on any stage.
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Changes in drug benefit weighed
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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Spurred by election-year jitters and anxious seniors, Congress might consider changes in the new Medicare prescription drug plan even as President Bush works to convince the public that he is getting the troubled program on track.
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Md. bill seeks data on hospital infections
Monday, March 13, 2006
David Kohn - - Baltimore Sun
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In September 1999, Dr. Neil Novin decided to have his hip replaced so he could keep playing tennis.
Within days of the surgery, his hip was badly infected with nasty, antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA. Although there is no way to be sure, Novin, a 76-year-old surgeon, is convinced that the source was likely something or someone he'd come in contact with at the hospital.
Since then, Novin, who lives in Pikesville, has had 11 more operations on his hip. He will almost certainly never play tennis again.
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Panel spurns port deal
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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In a rare slap at President Bush, a powerful Republican-controlled House committee voted overwhelmingly yesterday to torpedo a deal allowing a United Arab Emirates company to take control of some operations at the port of Baltimore and five other major seaports.
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Issues spur pro-Israel PAC
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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It's 10 p.m., somewhere in the bowels of the vast Washington Convention Center, and Howard Friedman - after a long day of speeches, flesh-pressing and high-level schmoozing - is still a smiling bundle of energy.
He leans his husky frame forward in his chair as he describes his lofty goals for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential pro-Israel lobby. At 40, the Baltimore-born Friedman is about to become the youngest president ever of the organization, which faces enormous challenges.
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Scrutiny of foreign deals urged
Monday, March 6, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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President Bush is coming under growing pressure to toughen the government's scrutiny of future transactions, as the furor continues over an Arab firm's purchase of some U.S. port operations, including in Baltimore.
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Lawmaker faults port study
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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A key Republican said yesterday that Treasury and Homeland Security officials privately told him the initial review of the firm planning to take over some operations at six major U.S. seaports was far less thorough than described by administration officials in later statements.
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35% of Iraq vets sought therapy after war's 1st year
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
David Kohn - - Baltimore Sun
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About a third of U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq during the first year of the war sought mental health treatment after leaving there, according to a groundbreaking study of the problem.
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Official of Dubai company defends deal to Congress
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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A top official of the Dubai-owned company poised to take over some operations in Baltimore and at other major U.S. seaports told Congress yesterday that he is confident that a new, more in-depth review of the deal will result in the same conclusion: That the sale poses no threat to national security.
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Compromise may be difficult in port debate
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Meredith Cohn - - Baltimore Sun
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For those who oppose a deal that would allow a state-owned Arab company to manage some work at U.S. seaports, and for those who see no security threat from it, a middle ground may be hard to find in the next 45 days, observers say.
That's how long the federal government has as it re-reviews the sale of a British cargo handling company to Dubai Ports World, owned by the government of Dubai and poised to assume control at six U.S. ports tomorrow.
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Using Amtrak rails to cost states more
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Michael Dresser - - Baltimore Sun
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Maryland and other northeastern states could face "significant" new costs for the use of Amtrak's tracks by MARC and other commuter rail lines, according to state Transportation Secretary Robert L. Flanagan.
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Port review faulted
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw and Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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The Coast Guard initially warned that intelligence gaps prevented it from gauging the potential security risk posed by Dubai Ports World's proposed takeover of some operations in Baltimore and five other major U.S. ports a month before the deal was approved, according to a document released yesterday by a Senate committee.
However, the Coast Guard said late last night that the excerpt was taken out of context from the full report, which concluded that the deal did not compromise national security.
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Judge blocks Bush on plan for unions
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Melissa Harris - - Baltimore Sun
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In a third blow to President Bush's efforts to weaken federal workers' unions, a judge blocked yesterday several of the most contentious portions of the Defense Department's proposed workplace rules, arguing that they "eviscerated" the rights of 650,000 workers and represented "the antithesis of fairness."
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Arab firm agrees to probe of port deal
Monday, February 27, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Intensifying its efforts to placate critics in Congress, a United Arab Emirates company volunteered yesterday to submit its takeover of some operations at six major U.S. seaports -- including Baltimore's -- to a second Bush administration probe of potential national security implications.
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Scientists hunt early signs of cancer to improve care
Monday, February 27, 2006
David Kohn - - Baltimore Sun
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Pancreatic cancer is relentless: Nearly all of the 30,000 Americans diagnosed annually with the disease die within 12 months. The early symptoms, back pain and indigestion, are so vague that most patients have no idea that they have cancer. By the time it's detected, the disease has usually spread to the point that it is untreatable.
But what if a simple blood test could alert doctors to pancreatic cancer early enough to treat it? Such a test does not exist, but University of Nebraska researcher Michael Hollingsworth thinks he has a solid lead. He has found that the disease increases levels of proteins called mucins.
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Growing criticism puzzles many in shipping industry
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Meredith Cohn - - Baltimore Sun
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Just about any given time, it's possible to find a Greek-owned ship flying a Liberian flag, employing a Filipino crew and carrying cargo from China into a U.S. port terminal managed by a British company that hires American longshoremen.
This is how Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target and others get their socks and stereos for the U.S. consumer.
So, some in the shipping industry have been taken aback in the past week by growing criticism in Washington and in state capitals to a deal that would transfer control over some operations in several major U.S. ports from a British company to one owned by the government of Dubai.
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Bush promises veto on port
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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President Bush said yesterday that he would veto any effort by Congress to stop a United Arab Emirates company from taking over some operations at the port of Baltimore and five other major U.S. seaports, offering his administration's most emphatic defense of a deal that leaders in both parties are working to block.
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Explosion damages famous Shiite shrine
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
AP's Ziad Khalaf - - Baltimore Sun
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A large explosion heavily damaged the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite shrines today, spawning mass protests and triggering reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques. It was the third major attack against Shiite targets this week and threatened to stoke sectarian tensions.
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Ehrlich objects to port deal
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Meredith Cohn and Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he was concerned that a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates could gain control of some operations at the port of Baltimore - the highest-ranking Maryland official to weigh in on what has ballooned into a major national political issue over port security.
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Bush plan suggests shift on global warming
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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As President Bush campaigns to break what he calls the U.S. addiction to imported oil, he is quick to argue that his proposals would make the country safer and more prosperous.
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Sauerbrey critics adjust tune
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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When President Bush nominated Ellen R. Sauerbrey for a top State Department post last fall, outside advocacy groups waged an extended - and ultimately unsuccessful - fight to keep her from getting the job.
Now that she's in it, those critics are changing their tune about the outspoken conservative Republican from Maryland.
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'Rescue' inhaler costs to climb
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Frank D. Roylance - - Baltimore Sun
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Asthma sufferers will soon be paying more for increasingly scarce emergency inhalers as part of the price of protecting the environment.
By the end of 2008, the government says, the makers of albuterol "rescue" inhalers - used by millions of people to reopen airways during asthma attacks - will have to stop using the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbon propellants that power the devices.
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Cheney victim suffers setback
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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Harry M. Whittington, the 78-year-old hunter accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney, was back in intensive care yesterday after suffering a mild heart attack, as questions continued to swirl around the White House's handling of the incident.
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Army accepts crime in recruits
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Tom Bowman - - Baltimore Sun
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Struggling to boost its ranks in wartime, the Army has sharply increased the number of recruits who would normally be barred because of criminal misconduct or alcohol and illegal drug problems, once again raising concerns that the Army is lowering its standards to make its recruiting goals.
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Cheney's image gets fresh blow
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a fellow hunter was the latest embarrassment for President Bush's image-challenged No. 2, and its aftermath dramatized the poor relations with the news media that have plagued Cheney since the start of the administration.
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Congress gets briefing on secret NSA program
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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A leading House Republican said the White House provided Congress for the first time yesterday with some operational details about the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretapping program.
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House Republicans meeting on Shore
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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House Republicans are taking over a luxury resort on the Eastern Shore for a conference that will feature a speech by President Bush and closed-door strategy sessions about changing Congress' ethics and lobbying rules.
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A spirited service filled with tears, laughter, politics
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
AP's Giovanna Dell'orto - - Baltimore Sun
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Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.
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Bush proposes lean 2007 budget
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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The $2.77 trillion budget President Bush sent Congress yesterday reflects his priorities, with big increases for defense and homeland security, the extension of more than $1 trillion in tax cuts and what aides described as belt-tightening in social programs and entitlements.
But it does not acknowledge the full price tag of all of Bush's goals, such as the continuing cost of the war in Iraq or fixing a quirk of the tax code that snags a growing segment of the American middle class each year.
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Budget would take a bite out of programs in Md.
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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From cuts in money to restore the Chesapeake Bay to fewer dollars for biomedical research, Maryland would feel a pinch under the budget proposed yesterday by President Bush.
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Panel challenges wiretap defense
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales drew bipartisan skepticism from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday as he defended the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program.
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Teflon chemical found in infants
Monday, February 6, 2006
Tom Pelton - - Baltimore Sun
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital drew blood from the umbilical cords of 300 newborns and discovered something that would be deeply unnerving to many parents:
Ninety-nine percent of the babies were born with trace levels of an industrial chemical - suspected as a possible cancer-causing agent - that is used in the manufacture of Teflon pans, computer chips, cell phones and dozens of other consumer products.
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Security, rights split swing state on NSA spying
Monday, February 6, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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Among the family photos and to-do lists cluttering the bulletin board in Edith Rodriguez's office, the item she's most aware of each day is an image of the World Trade Center towers that she tacked up to evoke memories of Sept. 11.
She glanced at it as she explained why she was not bothered by the National Security Agency program of eavesdropping without warrants inside the United States.
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Asbestos bill heads to Senate floor
Monday, February 6, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Legislation that would create a federal trust fund to compensate victims of asbestos exposure will come to the Senate floor this week after months of delay, although the bill's prospects remain uncertain.
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Spy chiefs assailed over NSA program
Friday, February 3, 2006
Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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In the first direct confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Senate Democrats assailed top intelligence officials yesterday for failing to keep them fully informed about the program and accused them of acting as a public relations arm of the White House.
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House passes first lobbying changes
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Early each morning when Congress is in session, Maryland Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest heads into the bowels of a building near the Capitol for a quick shower in the House gym. Once a week, he washes his clothes there.
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New GM hybrid, new shot at jobs
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Paul Adams and Jamie Smith Hopkins - - Baltimore Sun
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General Motors Corp. said yesterday that it will build the industry's first hybrid light-truck transmission at its manufacturing plant in northeastern Baltimore County, offering fresh hope to some of the 500 autoworkers still looking for jobs after the world's largest automaker closed its aged van assembly factory in Southeast Baltimore last May.
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Bush scales back his goals, ambitions
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Paul West - - Baltimore Sun
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The state of our nation remains strong. The state of George W. Bush, on the other hand, is only fair to middling.
Bush's address last night, like all such appearances, was as much about the president's progress as it was about where the country stands.
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'First lady' of civil rights
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Stephen Kiehl - - Baltimore Sun
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Coretta Scott King, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who marched alongside her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in the fight for equality and carried his torch for nearly four decades after his death, died early yesterday in Mexico. She was 78.
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Confirmed, Alito is sworn in as justice
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Baltimore Sun
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Samuel Alito took his place on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the son of an Italian immigrant and a political milestone in President Bush's campaign to give the judiciary a more conservative cast.
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Senators questioning spy program
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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On a day when President Bush visited the National Security Agency to defend its warrantless eavesdropping operation, questions mounted about the administration's legal justifications for the program.
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A strong showing for Hamas
Thursday, January 26, 2006
John Murphy - - Baltimore Sun
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The Islamic group Hamas won a powerful new role in parliamentary elections yesterday that were projected to give Fatah, the party that has led Palestinians for decades, a narrow lead but force it to compete with Hamas for control of the government.
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Drastic cuts at Ford
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Paul Adams - - Baltimore Sun
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Ford Motor Co. said yesterday that it will cut up to 30,000 jobs over six years and close 14 manufacturing plants, marking the latest phase in what industry experts call a long-overdue effort by U.S. automakers to rethink time-worn strategies in the face of competition from more nimble foreign competitors.
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Defense of NSA invokes Sept. 11
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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The nation's second-highest-ranking intelligence official said yesterday that the National Security Agency's program of warrantless eavesdropping in the United States would have uncovered the Sept. 11 plot had it been in effect before the 2001 attacks.
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Bush weighs costs to U.S. of keeping up
Monday, January 23, 2006
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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It's exactly the kind of legacy-building initiative President Bush is looking for: an ambitious campaign, hatched by a bipartisan crowd of lawmakers, executives and academics, to improve U.S. science and engineering capabilities and keep the nation from falling dangerously behind tough economic competitors, such as China and India.
There's just one problem for Bush: It costs $10 billion a year.
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Stem cell research funding in Md. raises bioethics issue
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Jennifer Skalka and Jonathan Bor - - Baltimore Sun
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Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s $20 million plan for funding stem cell research sparked sharp criticism yesterday from scientists and legislators after a key state official disclosed that preference will be given to work on nonembryonic stem cells.
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Alito irks foes by sticking to his script
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Paul West - - Baltimore Sun
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Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. stayed relentlessly on message - and apparently on course to winning confirmation - during a long first day of questioning yesterday in the Senate.
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Workers flail as pensions fade out
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Laura Smitherman and Meredith Cohn - - Baltimore Sun
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As companies continue to drop pensions that have afforded generations of workers a comfortable retirement, a chorus of financial experts warns that workers must learn to save for themselves.
But as with admonitions to exercise more and eat less, many workers aren't heeding the advice. One recent survey revealed that one-fifth of Americans think their best shot at amassing several hundred thousand dollars is to win the lottery. And that's far short of the $1 million that some financial planners say baby boomers will need.
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Boehner, Blunt Vie to Replace DeLay
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
AP's ANDREW TAYLOR - - Baltimore Sun
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The campaign to succeed Tom DeLay as House majority leader intensified Monday as Reps. Roy Blunt of Missouri and John Boehner of Ohio telephoned rank-and-file GOP lawmakers seeking support. Both Republicans claimed progress and released names of supporters.
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Odds of recovery small, experts say
Friday, January 6, 2006
Jonathan Bor - - Baltimore Sun
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Doctors following Ariel Sharon's condition from afar say his chances for recovery are probably slim, given his age and the fact that he required two brain operations after suffering a major hemorrhage Wednesday.
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Sauerbrey elevated to U.S. refugee post
Friday, January 6, 2006
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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President Bush sidestepped the Senate and elevated Maryland Republican Ellen R. Sauerbrey to a top State Department job yesterday, ignoring criticism from refugee and women's advocacy groups that she was underqualified for the position.
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Abramoff used firm founded by Ehrlich aide
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Andrew A. Green - - Baltimore Sun
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A company founded by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s deputy chief of staff was central to lobbyist Jack Abramoff's schemes to defraud clients and conceal kickbacks to himself and others, according to federal charges filed yesterday.
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'Everybody knows what the deal is'
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Timothy B. Wheeler - - Baltimore Sun
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When the shift changed at Mettiki coal mine yesterday afternoon, the begrimed miners emerging from the bowels of Western Maryland's Backbone Mountain pressed for news from neighboring West Virginia, where a dogged search was under way for 13 miners missing after a mine explosion there over the weekend.
This morning, families of the miners received the devastating news that 12 of 13 coal miners died following an explosion that trapped them hundreds of feet underground.
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Israeli military fires into Gaza Strip
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
AP's IBRAHIM BARZAK - - Baltimore Sun
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The Israeli military fired a barrage of artillery and missiles at the Gaza Strip today, hitting two offices of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and a bridge the army said was used by militants to reach areas where they fire rockets.
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Bush agenda faces hurdles
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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The furor over the National Security Agency's domestic spying program threatens to impede President Bush's momentum, just as he was working his way back from the lowest popularity rating of his presidency.
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Congress Republicans split over secret listening by NSA
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Despite a strong defensive effort from the White House, Republicans in Congress remain divided over the secret eavesdropping authorized by President Bush.
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President addresses war critics in speech
Monday, December 19, 2005
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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President Bush declared in a nationally televised address last night that the United States is winning the war in Iraq but acknowledged that U.S. deaths in an unexpectedly difficult conflict there have "led some to ask if we are creating more problems than we are solving."
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Iraqi turnout estimated at 70 percent
Friday, December 16, 2005
AP's PATRICK QUINN - - Baltimore Sun
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Final results in Iraq's parliamentary election may not be known for two weeks, but early indications show the Shiite tickets doing well in traditional Shiite strongholds, election officials said today.
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Bush sticks to war plan
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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President Bush made an unusually blunt admission of responsibility for invading Iraq using botched intelligence, while maintaining yesterday that his decision was right given Saddam Hussein's "history and the lessons of September 11th."
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Genome project tackles cancer
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Jonathan D. Rockoff - - Baltimore Sun
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In a bold but uncertain bid to spur cancer treatment, federal medical researchers announced yesterday a $100 million project to begin cataloging the disease's molecular underpinnings.
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Iraqi expatriates cast ballots
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Greg Barrett - - Baltimore Sun
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With the din of Arabic speakers and the waving of the Iraqi flag yesterday, the lobby of the Best Western here resembled that of an upscale Baghdad hotel.
But the festive scene of Iraqi expatriates voting in Northern Virginia for their country's first full-term parliament contrasted with the combat zone they call home. By most accounts of the voters here, the U.S.-led invasion of their country was a good thing.
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Bush's nomination of Sauerbrey stalls
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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The nomination of Maryland Republican Ellen R. Sauerbrey to a top State Department post has stalled in a Senate committee and won't be dealt with until next year unless President Bush acts to bypass Congress and give her the job on a temporary basis.
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Talk Rumsfeld to quit re-emerges
Friday, December 9, 2005
Tom Bowman - - Baltimore Sun
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Once again there is speculation that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has become a lightning rod for the administration's policy in Iraq, will be leaving his post.
Rumsfeld brushed aside the latest talk yesterday after a meeting on Capitol Hill.
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Bush, NAACP relationship thaws
Friday, December 9, 2005
Kelly Brewington - - Baltimore Sun
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Some national civil rights leaders say this week's private meeting with President Bush offers hope for an end to frosty relations, but others insist an hourlong talk is no guarantee that the Republican White House will become responsive to their agendas.
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Illegal trip protests Guantanamo prison
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Matthew Hay Brown - - Baltimore Sun
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More than two dozen activists from Baltimore and elsewhere have arrived in Cuba to protest the U.S. detention-and-interrogation operation at Guantanamo Bay.
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A wide net cast in lobby inquiry
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Robert Little - - Baltimore Sun
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What began last year as a seemingly routine inquiry into an allegedly crooked lobbyist has evolved into a far-reaching investigation with all the intrigue and political octane of a full-blown Washington scandal - one that could well recast the relationship between money and influence on Capitol Hill, according to political analysts and scholars.
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U.S. military says suicide bombings in Iraq fall
Friday, December 2, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Baltimore Sun
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The U.S. military said today that suicide bombings fell in November to their lowest level in seven months after joint U.S.-Iraqi operations west of the capital.
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Amtrak appears due for reform
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Michael Dresser - - Baltimore Sun
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta insists he's not interested in dismantling Amtrak or cutting service in the Northeast Corridor.
But David L. Gunn, whose recent ouster as Amtrak's chief executive is viewed by transit experts as a turning point for the railroad, says those will be the inevitable results of the Bush administration's transportation policies.
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2006 troop cuts in Iraq likely, not a pullout
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Tom Bowman - - Baltimore Sun
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Against a backdrop of calls from both Iraqi leaders and the U.S. Congress to withdraw American troops, military officers and defense analysts said this week that reductions are likely in 2006 but Iraq will not be ready to take a lead role against insurgents before 2007.
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Stanching wounds
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Robert Little - - Baltimore Sun
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The U.S. Army is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to equip all its combat troops with a futuristic bandage designed to stop massive bleeding from battlefield injuries, despite doubts about its effectiveness and the development of a cheaper product that many scientists believe works better.
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Moderates grow in influence
Monday, November 21, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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In the wee hours of Friday morning -- a few minutes into a close vote on a critical bill on the House floor -- Maryland Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest decided to play a little joke on Republican Party leaders.
Earlier, he had assured them that he would support a $50 billion package of spending cuts. But when he strode onto the House floor, he cast his vote against it. Party leaders, who had carefully counted their votes before bringing the bill to the floor, gaped at Gilchrest.
Nobody was amused.
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Cancer vaccine promising
Monday, November 21, 2005
David Kohn - - Baltimore Sun
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Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee gets six or seven e-mails a day from desperate cancer patients and family members, pleading for help or for a spot in one of her studies.
For the past 16 years, Jaffee has been developing a vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Last week, she and her colleague, Dr. Dan Laheru, announced some good news: Their vaccine significantly improved survival rates in a small group of patients.
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House narrowly OKs package of spending cuts
Friday, November 18, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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In a hard-fought vindication for Republican leaders, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a $50 billion package of spending cuts early this morning, ending an impasse with moderate lawmakers that lasted more than a week and notching a win for President Bush.
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White House goes on a defense offensive
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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After he finished a stint as spokesman for a crisis-ridden FEMA after Hurricane Katrina, Mark Pfeifle headed straight for the White House and the hottest Republican campaign going: President Bush's effort to beat back Democratic charges that he lied the country into war.
Pfeifle's specialty is damage control. And at the moment, there is more than enough damage surrounding Bush. With public alarm about the war mounting and public trust of Bush plummeting, the White House has gone on the defensive with a public relations push designed to discredit his opponents.
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Woodward sorry for part in Plame case
Thursday, November 17, 2005
NICK MADIGAN - - Baltimore Sun
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Bob Woodward, one of the country's most celebrated reporters and an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, apologized yesterday to his editor for having waited more than two years before revealing that a White House official disclosed to him in 2003 the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
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Protein, fats may be good for heart
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Dennis O'Brien - - Baltimore Sun
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If you want to live longer, cut back on the white bread, eat more beans and use olive or canola oil. But not too much.
That's what scientists concluded in one of the most comprehensive studies of the effect of diet on heart health. The findings, announced yesterday, will help fine-tune the advice that doctors give patients interested in healthy eating.
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Gaza deal opens border
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
John Murphy - - Baltimore Sun
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After months of fruitless negotiations, Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached a landmark agreement yesterday that promises to vastly improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians, opening the Gaza Strip to the outside world and allowing for freer movement of goods and people in and out of the Palestinian territories.
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Ex-chair of CPB broke rules, report says
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
NICK MADIGAN - - Baltimore Sun
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Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, improperly used "political tests" in recruiting top officials, an internal investigation revealed yesterday.
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New Amtrak head bypassed predecessor
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Michael Dresser - - Baltimore Sun
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Amtrak's chairman told Congress yesterday that he has talked with individuals who are interested in buying some of the railroad's assets in the Northeast Corridor.
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Baseball stiffens rules on steroids
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Dan Connolly - - Baltimore Sun
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Major League Baseball and its players union agreed to harsher steroid penalties yesterday, more than three months after the Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro became the sport's highest-profile player to be suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs.
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FDA's acts on Plan B faulted
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Jonathan D. Rockoff - - Baltimore Sun
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Top officials at the Food and Drug Administration told staff members they would reject over-the-counter sales of the "morning after" pill months before agency scientists finished safety reviews, congressional investigators said yesterday in a report that sparked renewed criticism that abortion politics is infecting government science.
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U.S. gets failing mark on terror
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Siobhan Gorman - - Baltimore Sun
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The Bush administration came under fire yesterday from members of the former 9/11 Commission for failing to respond adequately to the threat of nuclear terrorism.
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New boarding procedures take off
Monday, November 14, 2005
Meredith Cohn - - Baltimore Sun
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Recent efforts by AirTran and other airlines to rejigger how passengers board in an attempt to save minutes reflect the industry's scramble to wring out new efficiencies as their financial woes mount. Several airlines are operating in bankruptcy, jobs and pensions have been cut, and on-flight food and even pillows have become scarce. Together, the airlines expect to lose up to $10 billion this year.
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Joy, then mourning in Amman
Friday, November 11, 2005
John Murphy - - Baltimore Sun
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No one noticed the uninvited guest slip inside the wedding party in the ballroom of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Amman on Wednesday night. The 260 relatives and friends of the groom, Ashraf Da'as, 32, and his 24-year-old bride, Nadia, were too busy singing, dancing and feasting, awaiting the start of the couple's grand wedding procession.
But yesterday evening, as members of the wedding party gathered in a cemetery to bury the 16 people the intruder wearing explosives killed, no one could get the bomber and his possible motivations out of their minds.
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In U.S., flu shots too short
Friday, November 11, 2005
Julie Bell - - Baltimore Sun
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As Americans find they are unable to get the flu shots they want for the second year in a row, officials said yesterday that high demand and the government's inability to prevent shortages continue to frustrate patients and doctors alike.
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Report doubts Palmeiro
Friday, November 11, 2005
Jeff Barker - - Baltimore Sun
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A House committee report released yesterday undermines former Orioles star Rafael Palmeiro's contention that his positive steroids test was accidental and provides an alarming glimpse at life inside the team's clubhouse, which one lawmaker called "a mess."
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2 senators end bid to block pension reform bill
Friday, November 11, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Mike DeWine said yesterday that they had dropped their efforts to block a pension reform bill from reaching the Senate floor, a move that could revive the stalled legislation.
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Pa. region sees benefits, costs of war
Friday, November 11, 2005
Julie Hirschfeld Davis - - Baltimore Sun
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Donna Kimmel tries not to think what could happen after her son's Army brigade heads to war in June. But she's grateful for one side effect of the combat in Iraq: the thriving business at the military facility where she and her husband work.
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State due $7.6 million to fight crime
Friday, November 11, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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More than $7.6 million in crime-prevention money would come to Maryland as part of a federal spending bill expected to be approved by Congress by early next week.
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'Times' reporter jailed in CIA leak case retires
Thursday, November 10, 2005
NICK MADIGAN - - Baltimore Sun
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In an attempt to put an embarrassing episode behind it, The New York Times announced yesterday the retirement of Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter whose involvement in the leak of a CIA officer's name led to the indictment of a high-ranking member of the Bush White House.
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Dems sweep races in Va., N.J.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Paul West - - Baltimore Sun
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Democrats swept elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey yesterday, dealing a fresh blow to President Bush's flagging political fortunes.
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Army reaches low, fills ranks
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Tom Bowman - - Baltimore Sun
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The number of new recruits who scored at the bottom of the Army's aptitude test tripled last month, Pentagon officials said, helping the nation's largest armed service meet its October recruiting goal but raising concerns about the quality of the force.
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Mikulski criticizes Bush's Supreme Court pick
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Delivering the weekly Democratic radio address, Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski expressed disappointment yesterday that President Bush did not nominate a woman to the Supreme Court and called on the White House to "come clean" about its involvement in the outing of a covert CIA operative.
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No, that's not eBay -- it's your Uncle Sam
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Melissa Harris - - Baltimore Sun
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Want to buy a helicopter? Or one of 288 diamonds seized from a crooked insurance tycoon? A rickety surgical table gathering dust at Fort Meade? Or even a strip club in Fells Point?
At one time or another, all of these items have had one thing in common: Uncle Sam sold them on the Internet, an up-to-date way for the government to unload seized or surplus property.
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Changing vaccine systems no easy shot
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Frank D. Roylance - - Baltimore Sun
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The threat of a pandemic may persuade the makers of flu vaccine to give up the chicken eggs they've used for decades and begin moving to a newer, faster production system.
The question is whether they're willing to abandon the tried-and-true - or do it soon enough to head off the next potential public health disaster.
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Hoyer likes Democrats' chances in 2006
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Gwyneth K. Shaw - - Baltimore Sun
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Ask Rep. Steny H. Hoyer what Democrats need to do to win back control of the House next year, and his first response is a barely suppressed chuckle.
"We're getting such extraordinary help from the other side," he said. "It makes it a little bit easier."
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U.S. urged to re-examine plans for terror detainees
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Siobhan Gorman and Tom Bowman - - Baltimore Sun
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The Bush administration should re-evaluate its long-term plan for detaining suspected terrorists in light of reports that the CIA has a secret prison system in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, members of Congress and current and former intelligence officials say.
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Flu plan lays out drastic steps
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Jonathan Bor - - Baltimore Sun
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In the event of a flu pandemic, people exposed to the virus could be quarantined in their homes, kept off planes or intercepted at airports and other ports of entry, as outlined in the federal government's preparedness plan.
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