Japan

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor

2013-05-11 11:53:01

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....

Sol Kramer, wholesale hobby business owner

2013-05-02 14:26:09

Sol Kramer, who turned a Depression-era 15-cent balsa toy airplane business into a leading wholesale hobby empire, died of pneumonia April 24 at Hospice by the Sea in Pompano Beach, Fla. The former Pikesville resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was...

M3 Festival rocks on at Merriweather

2013-05-01 06:00:00

There are many ways to describe Merriweather Post Pavilion's M3 Rock Festival — passionate, sweaty, loud, over-the-top, sartorially questionable. Sometimes, it's even romantic. Just ask the Australian couple that got engaged while in attendance...

Cherry blossom festival in the pink for 2013

2013-04-05 10:28:00

When it comes to spring color, Washington knows how to put on a show. The National Cherry Blossom Festival blossoms each year to commemorate the gift of some 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo to the nation's capital in 1912. While the festival had...

Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman

2013-03-30 11:38:00

Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92. His wife...

Catonsville High gets infusion of Japanese culture

2013-03-25 06:49:00

Girls in bright yellows, pinks and reds and boys in deep blues and greens zoomed around a conference room at Catonsville High School Thursday in a frenzy to get changed between lunch and fourth period. The 20 students were not Catonsville Comets. They...

Celebrating Maryland Day, birthdays, anniversaries

2013-03-22 03:00:00

Happy Maryland Day, dear readers! On March 25, the English ships Ark and Dove landed in St. Mary's, loaded with the first colonists for Lord Baltimore to settle here in 1634 as a Catholic colony. March 25 is a national holiday in Greece. Greeks and...

Teaching the ABCs of literacy in Laurel

2013-03-20 06:02:00

In 2003, 14.5 percent of the U.S. population over the age of 16 lacked "basic prose literacy skills." That means they were either unable to read or understand any written information in English, or were limited to understanding short prose, "but nothing...

History Matters: Russians ready to take on any Japanese threat 75 years ago

2013-02-27 04:47:00

100 Years Ago The iceman cameth From the social notes: "Prof. Charles Kolb of Westminster was the guest Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Barnes. "Mr. Washington Ridgley spent several day last week with Mr. and Mrs. Charles...

March arrives to celebrate Women's History and American Red Cross

2013-02-27 00:00:00

It's March, dear readers! Will the old adage of lions and lambs ring true? Will we be in like a lion an out like a lamb, or in like a lamb and out like a lion? One never knows. Will March be traditionally windy? Hold onto your hat and we shall see....

U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine

2013-02-23 13:45:15

Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...

Charles H. Latrobe III, highly decorated Navy fighter pilot

2013-02-23 11:51:39

Charles H. Latrobe III, a retired Koppers Co. executive who was a highly decorated World War II Navy night fighter pilot, died Feb. 16 of complications from pneumonia at Roland Park Place. He was 90. "He was a very private person who had the highest...

ANA flight attendant Mika Shindo offers a business class passenger newspapers on an ANA Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed for Fukuoka, Japan, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan in 2012.

2013-05-16 10:49:00

Cast member Tom Cruise makes appearance before fans at the Japan premiere of his movie "Oblivion" in Tokyo May 8, 2013. The movie will be released to the public in Japan from May 31, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Tom Cruise waves to the fans at the 'Oblivion' Japan Premiere at Roppongi Hills on May 8, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will open on May 31 in Japan.

2013-05-08 00:00:00