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South Pole evacuee gets evaluated at Johns Hopkins

2011-10-25 18:09:00

It was like a 38-hour Monday for Renee-Nicole Douceur, who flew from New Zealand to Baltimore after being evacuated from the South Pole for treatment of an apparent stroke. "It was like that movie 'Groundhog Day,'" Douceur said in a telephone interview...

South Pole stroke victim recovering at Johns Hopkins

2011-10-28 18:16:44

Working late into the night at a research center at the South Pole, Renee-Nicole Douceur thought she was just tired when her vision suddenly became blurred. Sleep did nothing to improve her eyesight, and a doctor at the center at first thought she had...

Harford school board updated on STEM, Cultural Proficiency

2011-05-27 09:16:00

Summer's Calling: Banner pilots

2010-07-02 21:29:00

Freshman banner pilot Jake Thibeault, 24, banked the little 1978 Bellanca Scout around the soybean fields north of Berlin, Md. He cut his altitude and lined the plane up with the two white poles, about 8 feet apart, just to the left of his employer's...

Special places to watch not-so-special Super Bowl

2009-01-28 16:22:12

Good morning, Baltimore, or wherever you are out there in cyberspace. Sorry about the hiatus, and thanks to all who wrote to make sure I wasn't the victim of an alien abduction.During the Ravens' playoff run, I was embedded in enemy......

Partial list of victims

2001-10-02 11:23:00

Names of those confirmed dead, reported dead or reported missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Persons confirmed dead include victims who have been confirmed dead by a coroner's office or the Defense Department. It also includes those for whom death...

Kills may restore Patriot's reputation

2003-03-21 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Twelve years after television broadcasts made it a wartime celebrity, the once-vaunted Patriot missile returned to the limelight yesterday to defend allied troops in the Kuwaiti desert and perhaps restore its shattered good name. Pentagon...

Technology 'changes how we see the war'

2003-03-28 00:00:00

Stephanie Gosk carries a satellite phone, a digital camera, a laptop computer and a satellite dish the size of a cutting board. Together, these space-age items weigh just 15 pounds and cost roughly $10,000. She is a team of one, chronicling the efforts of...

Some businesses may profit from attacks

2001-09-15 00:00:00

As customers snatched American flags right out of the box at a jammed Flag Shop in Baltimore's Harborplace, clerk Lena Hamideh struggled to keep pace with the cash-register line and a telephone that rang every 30 seconds. "I need a 5-by-8 USA!" Hamideh...

Towson Raytheon plant lays off 37

2002-11-21 12:43:00

Raytheon Co. will lay off 37 employees -- or about 15 percent of its work force -- at its Towson plant because of a dearth in new military contracts, officials said today. Workers at the plant, on Joppa Road, were notified of the furloughs Tuesday,...

Playing hooky more than day off

2003-06-30 00:00:00

Standing outside Gate D at Wrigley Field on a recent weekday afternoon, Derek, a financial consultant who did not give his last name, was trying to be incognito in a polo shirt, shorts and sunglasses. Derek was supposed to be at work. He told his boss...

Firefighters deserve high-fives and another fete

2001-07-23 00:00:00

NOW THAT was a cool coincidence: "Firefighter Appreciation Day 2001" at Oriole Park fell in the midst of the diehard, underground inferno that put the city's Fire Department to an extraordinary test. Too bad many of the firefighters who deserved the...

David Jensen has been named chief communications officer at Rotary International. Jensen will direct all internal and external communications operations at the humanitarian service organization's international headquarters in Evanston.

2012-03-21 00:00:00

Raytheon is developing a 13-pound GPS-guided "smart bomb" intended to be dropped from a drone.

2011-05-31 00:00:00

Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLS) employee Keith Magness uses a chainsaw to cut through ice on the hatches of the Seawolf class submarine USS Connecticut after the boat surfaced through Arctic sea ice during an exercise near the 2011 APLS camp north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska . The new

2011-03-23 00:00:00