Word: maryland
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This view is supported by Dr. Benjamin Carson, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland, who has helped separate other twins. "If we were to separate them, we would basically take a couple of individuals who are mobile and change them into invalids." He doubts that both could survive...
DIED. VICTOR CRAWFORD, 63, antismoking activist; of throat cancer; in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1992 the lifelong smoker learned he had terminal cancer, and in his final months he became an eloquent crusader against tobacco. In Maryland he helped win passage of the sort of smoking restrictions he had once worked against as a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute...
...entitled to divide two and a half percent of Liggett's yearly profits to compensate future Medicaid costs, and annual payments to cover state medical expenses already incurred. Another five percent of the tobacco company's income is to be pooled ready for other states needing Medicaid reimbursement. Maryland is already preparing such a suit. The first check from Liggett is scheduled to arrive this week. TIME's Elaine Shannon says "The state lawsuits are using 'good Samaritan arguments', saying simply that they didn't actually smoke, they simply helped someone who did, so why should they...
...Crimson travel to UMass on Thursday and then have more than a week to prepare for Princeton, who comes to Cambridge on the first Saturday of spring break. NCAA POLL 1. Maryland (14) 140 2. Princeton 123 3. Penn State 96 4. James Madison 86 5. Dartmouth 63 6. Virginia 58 7. Temple 49 8. Loyola (Md.) 47 9. William & Mary 43 10. Old Dominion...
That would explain the vehemence with which tobacco is fighting back--in some cases pre-emptively. Industry lawyers have already filed suits trying to block the possible Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though...