Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convicted child rapist working as a technician in a Boston hospital riffled through 1,000 computerized records looking for potential victims (and was caught when the father of a nine-year-old girl used caller ID to trace the call back to the hospital). How a banker on Maryland's state health commission pulled up a list of cancer patients, cross-checked it against the names of his bank's customers and revoked the loans of the matches. How Sara Lee bakeries planned to collaborate with Lovelace Health Systems, a subsidiary of Cigna, to match employee health records with work...
...idea is that the church will provide a sense of community and a support network that a welfare office typically does not. "The people in the faith-based institutions are truly interested in the participants," says special-programs manager Christine Poulsen, who coordinates welfare recipient-church partnerships for Maryland's Anne Arundel County. "The congregation becomes a minifamily" for those enrolled. The results in Anne Arundel have been impressive: 19 of the 26 welfare recipients who went through the program are now self-supporting...
...story that fuels the film. Staying away from the personal life of a man who wasn't particularly interested in his own (his kids barely appear in the film), the story focuses solely on Wallace's political career. Opening with the day he was shot while campaigning in Maryland for his 1972 presidential bid, the movie then hops back to his first gubernatorial campaign, slowing down to fill in some background before taking off with his infamous 1963 inaugural speech: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" From here the film whirls through key moments in Wallace's career: blocking...
...this work, the little-known International Occultation Timing Association issued a call on its Web page, inviting volunteers to tape the eclipse--synchronizing their recordings with the Weather Channel, whose programming appears at the same hours all over the country--and then mail the cassettes to the organization's Maryland headquarters. By the day of the event, the Website had received some 7,400 hits, and organizers hope for hundreds of recordings. "The more tapes the better, " says Avalle. "And we expect plenty...
...your reviewer said sank in the fierce 1991 storm off the East Coast. In fact, before evacuating the vessel, I lashed the helm, sheeted in the storm jib and checked the compass. Seven days after my crew and I were rescued, I had Satori pulled off the beach in Maryland. Her bilges were dry, and there was no structural damage. Since then, I've sailed her 6,000 miles. RAYMOND LEONARD Pittsford...