China

Dulaney student's poem helps build a worldwide bridge

2013-05-10 08:39:09

Recently, a poem by Dulaney High School senior Minwei Cao was selected to be included in the "Building Bridges to Celebrate our Global Village" anthology. A student competition to write essays and poems about cultural diversity for the anthology was...

Stembler named principal of Calvert Hall; Bullis wins student video contest

2013-05-09 15:22:44

Brother Thomas Zoppo, president of Calvert Hall High School College has announced that Charles Stembler, Class of 1983, the school's current assistant principal for Student Affairs, has been appointed Calvert Hall's principal, effective July 1. Stembler...

Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion

2013-05-07 18:34:00

He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...

Hackers pose a serious threat to U.S. small business

2013-05-05 09:30:00

When I bought Marlin Steel in 1998, the extent of its technology was an old fax machine. Today, our factory is full of industrial robots that are fed computer-aided designs and churn out steel containers for industry 60 times faster than before. We're...

A new day for U.S. manufacturing

2013-05-05 05:00:00

Remember the 1980s? It was to be the decade of Japanese dominance. A post-Jimmy Carter America would be unable to compete with the efficient Japanese jobs machine. Aging technology, lazy management and high-cost labor would ensure America's rapid demise...

Thankful for contributions of Korea veterans [editorial]

2013-04-25 15:10:15

This year marks the observance of landmark anniversaries of several military milestones in U.S. history. The 150th anniversary of the third year of the Civil War, among the bloodiest in American military history, is commemorated throughout 2013. This...

Korean powder keg

2013-04-08 13:05:39

North Korea's recent threats to target South Korean and American cities with atomic destruction have the shrill belligerence of a 6-year-old's temper tantrum. But while few analysts believe North Korea has the means to carry out its threats, U.S. and...

Don't just talk about the weather

2013-04-08 03:00:00

Last December, an American milestone passed virtually unnoticed. Forty years earlier, Harrison Schmitt became the 12th and last person to walk on the moon. Mr. Schmitt and the 11 men who preceded him — beginning with Neil Armstrong in 1969 —...

America lags on plain speech

2013-03-28 09:15:00

The Internet is changing how leaders talk. Leaders from Rome to Beijing and beyond are helping usher in a new era of plain speaking. But American leaders are lagging behind, stuck in old patterns of windy and obfuscatory speech. Around the globe, what's...

Sickening cuts to NIH

2013-03-21 11:13:00

Albert Einstein was 26 when he published his Special Theory of Relativity; James Watson, at age 25, explained the structure of DNA. Here in Baltimore, many great medical achievements were developed by early-career researchers at Johns Hopkins. "The...

Who would follow our example on Keystone?

2013-03-18 04:00:00

While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose -- or whatever their Uncle Sam equivalent is -- always...

Hopkins to train Chinese doctors

2013-03-05 11:10:00

Johns Hopkins will train China's next generation of doctors, researchers and hospital administrators under a new agreement with Sun Yat-sen University. The agreement was signed this week in the city of Guangzhou, where the university has affiliated...

Morning bicycle traffic in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.

2013-05-17 15:17:02

Two-thirds of the Tianshan Mountain range, which stretches across Eastern Europe and Asia, lies within China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Xinjiang Tianshan encompasses a wide range of landscapes, including canyons, snow-covered peaks, wetlands and glaciers.

2013-05-13 15:33:03

Liu Gang's graduation project, "Paper Dreams," was picked up by one of China's most prestigious art galleries, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in 2009.

2013-05-09 20:27:02