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...been a rough political season for the Kennedy mystique. In last week's primary, J.F.K. nephew Mark Shriver, left, narrowly lost his bid to be the Democratic nominee for a congressional seat from Maryland, despite getting his publicity-shy cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg to campaign for him. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, center, eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy, is facing an unexpectedly tough battle for Governor of Maryland, as her double-digit lead has dwindled. And Kennedy ties didn't do much for Andrew Cuomo, married to another of R.F.K.'s daughters; he backed out of the New York Governor...
Losick, who is Cabot professor of biology, was one of 20 science professors nationwide to receive grants from the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The prizes are the largest-ever endowed to individuals for scientific teaching, according to Steve Barkanic, the institute’s program director for undergraduate science education...
...Federal lawmakers can't seem to make anything happen, so why don't the states step up to the plate? They're trying, in states like Maryland, Georgia and the beleaguered Florida, implementing changes piecemeal, but they simply don't have the funding for the sweeping overhaul most voting experts agree is necessary. Only a federal bill can give them what they need...
...recess, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel was stunned to get almost as many questions about war as demands for disaster assistance against the drought. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins says, she was hearing about Iraq as often as about jobs and the economy. And at a retirement community in a Maryland suburb, elderly voters gave Democratic House candidate Mark Shriver an earful on Iraq before bringing up Social Security and the cost of prescription drugs. "People are confused," Shriver says. "They're confused about the answers to some pretty tough questions...
...DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, famed football quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to three NFL championships in the 1950s and 60s; in Timonium, Maryland. Unitas broke virtually every league passing record in the course of his 18-year career, and was named the greatest quarterback of all time in a poll commemorating the league's 50th anniversary...