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Marguerite T. Petersen, city teacher
Marguerite Theresa Petersen, a retired Baltimore elementary school teacher, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 11 at Union Memorial Hospital. The West Baltimore resident was 89.
Born Marguerite Theresa Page, she was the daughter of Dr. George C. Page,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Abraham Lincoln, Human Interest, Baltimore County, Coppin State University
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News 13 hires new weekend morning anchor
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelCentral Florida News 13 has lined up a new weekend morning anchor will who come aboard next month. Kristin Kane starts at the cable news channel Jan. 14, but her first day anchoring hasn't been determined, News 13 General Manager Robin Smythe said. Kane... -
L.A. Now Live: Discuss UC Berkeley chancellor pay raise
L.A. NOWThe UC Board of Regents on Tuesday approved a $50,000 -- or 11.4% -- pay raise to the incoming UC Berkeley chancellor despite strong opposition from Gov. Jerry Brown. The Times higher education reporter Larry Gordon will join L.A. Now Live at 9 a.m. to... -
New UC Berkeley chief to get pay raise despite Brown's opposition
L.A. NOWDespite strong opposition from Gov. Jerry Brown, the UC regents on Tuesday gave the new chancellor of UC Berkeley a $50,000-–or 11.4%--pay raise over the current campus head and said the extra money would come from private donations, not state... -
Larry S. Gibson's book on Thurgood Marshall examines the forces in Baltimore that shaped young judge
Forty-three years of letters, photographs, campaign buttons, itineraries and the occasional miniature flag are crammed into 2,000 fat binders lining three walls — floor to ceiling — of a storage room in the University of Maryland School of...
Tags: Salads, Biography (genre), Laurence Fishburne, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Politics
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Model predicts flu outbreaks seven weeks out using Google search data
A new statistical model, built on search data from Google and principles from weather modeling, can predict flu outbreaks up to seven weeks in advance. The results, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, signify a...
Tags: Vaccines, Science, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Google Inc.
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NASA mission believed to have discovered ice on Mercury
Scientists, including members of two Maryland-based teams, believe they have found ice inside craters near Mercury's poles, a discovery they say could reveal more about the "building blocks" for life on other planets. Though the small planet is closest...
Tags: Science, NASA, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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Central Florida Political Pulse biographies
David Damron writes: "Born and raised in the northeast, I moved south to finish college and graduated from the University of Florida in 1995. After covering schools, social services and governemnt in Lake County, I headed to Orlando to cover the Florida...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Journalism, Politics, Titusville, College Sports
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Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), College Baseball, Evanston, Joe Biden, Journalism
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Trailblazer dies at age 88
davem@herald-mail.comLois Smith Harrison was a woman who blazed trails in more ways than one, becoming a pioneer for higher education in Washington County, making her own way through a college education in the 1940s that was rare for women at that time and juggling home...Tags: Reformed, Human Interest, The Herald-Mail, World War II (1939-1945), Christianity
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Meet the cast of Chicago's 'Book of Mormon'
Tribune reporterWe spoke with three actors in the Chicago company of “The Book of Mormon,” now at the Bank of America Theatre. James Vincent Meredith as Mafala Hatimbi James Vincent Meredith is the ranking Chicagoan in the cast, a longtime Chicago stage...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Christianity, Music Theater, Example (music group), Religion and Belief
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Ivy League test scores, for those who can afford them
Americans think we live in a meritocracy where hard work can take you from rags to riches. Access to a great education can be an escape from the cyclical poverty found in Baltimore and other major cites. Attending an elite university is particularly...
Tags: Social Issues, Racism, Baltimore School for the Arts, Teaching and Learning, Examinations
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