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...Amish are even finding themselves at the forefront of science. A genetic-disease research project at the University of Maryland is focusing on the Amish, since they keep detailed family records that go back generations. And though the Amish tend to be suspicious of psychology, a new mental-health facility just opened outside Lancaster. It's decorated in traditional Amish style to make patients feel comfortable, and so that when they role-play, they can do it with a real butter churn...
Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, O.K., long-winded), this satire of the 18th century novel is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence. It's the late 17th century, and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, a dutiful son and a determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco plantation. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many comic perils...
...idea what he was getting us into. Now we all know that bluster and posturing don't win a conflict. If we can't stabilize Iraq, how can that country's ragtag police ever do so? Maybe peace would come if our occupation forces left. Gary Wilson North East, Maryland...
...mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Maryland, has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled, to $70 per bbl., yet Miller missed the entire runup. "It's a mistake we should not have made," he says, and he's paying...
...months or years, so his knowledge makes him a great team player.”In addition to nationals, Johnson also has his sights set on the season’s remaining regattas. Among the more important ones include this Saturday’s Navy Fall Invitational in Maryland, the Schell Trophy at MIT, and the vaunted ACCs—the sailing team’s Super Bowl—to be held in November...