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...MARYLAND MESS The iconic blue crab has had a tough year. As the Chesapeake's season comes to an end, scientists expect one of the lowest harvests in more than 60 years as a result of pollution and catch allowances that may be too permissive for a population in severe decline. The bay was home to 852 million crabs in 1993, but now there are only 273 million...
...similar to the 1988 Willie Horton incident, which famously hurt former Masachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in his run for the presidency. Horton, in prison for life for murder, had been granted a weekend furlough under a Massachusetts program overseen by Dukakis and used the time to flee to Maryland, where he robbed and raped a woman...
...political crisis in Lebanon is seen by many as a microcosm of the regional power struggle between the United States, Iran and Syria. Some analysts here believe that the Lebanese impasse could be broken if Syria is given a prominent role at the forthcoming peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Syria, which backs the Lebanese opposition, says it will only participate in the conference if the Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, is included on the agenda. If Syria's demand is met, Damascus could use its influence over the opposition to accept...
...TIME passed up inventions that save energy, produce energy, make us safer, make our commutes easier, protect us from diseases, reduce our impact on our finite resources and bring knowledge to the Third World to name a cool new cell phone as Invention of the Year? Steve Jordan, Germantown, Maryland...
Hunters for the Hungry and other programs like it operate in nearly every U.S. state; in the past year, total pounds of food donated increased 30%. Rick Wilson founded his Maryland-based ministry, Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH), 10 years ago while on a hunting trip in Virginia, soon after he witnessed a poverty-stricken woman collecting road-kill in the woods. After soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in donations, Wilson and volunteers began providing what Wilson calls "God-given resources" to the homeless. The organization has since branched out to 26 states, with more than...