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Ilana J. Sichel ’05, who was walking to classes at the University of Maryland last year, thought a friend who told her of the attacks had said the target was the World Bank, not the World Trade Center...
...business, though, they have to settle a nasty squabble among conservative and moderate activists in their ranks. The Club For Growth, which calls itself a Ronald Reagan-style pro-tax cut group that raises money for conservative GOP candidates, plans to pump more than $100,000 into a Maryland primary Sept. 10 in order to oust moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrist, who's seeking a seventh term. Alarmed that their thinning ranks might get even thinner, the House Republican Main Street Partnership, made up of moderate GOP members of Congress, says it'll fight the Club dollar for dollar...
...viewer? Take, for instance, the detail-oriented Californian who found one letter on our cover to be literally off-color: "As I looked at your tricolored 'USA' in the cover headline, I wondered when the U.S. changed its colors to red, white and periwinkle blue." A plainspoken Maryland man thought the Boss could use a change: "This bum needs to get a haircut, a shave and a decent suit!" But it was the man behind the camera who was the focus of attention for a San Diego woman. "Gregory Heisler's cover portrait of Bruce Springsteen is amazing. Heisler...
...anthrax mailings linked to five deaths last fall inched closer to a solution to the mystery. They found a mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey that tested positive for traces of the bacteria. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Dan Mihalko said the box had been sent to an army facility in Maryland for analysis, as field testing was fallible. The suspect mailbox was discovered during an investigation of hundreds of boxes from which mail is sent to a sorting office in Trenton, New Jersey, where four anthrax-laced letters were postmarked last year. COLOMBIA State of Emergency Newly installed President Alvaro Uribe...
...zero-tolerance approach the federal and state governments seem to be taking does not bode well for the snakehead. Maryland officials continue to puzzle out how best to clear the Crofton pond (poison, electrocution and concussion bombs are current options), and Washington is preparing to impose prison terms of up to six months and fines of up to $10,000 for any future snakehead importers. "Predators of this kind have historically been among our most damaging species," says Simberloff. In most cases, unfortunately, that damage may be impossible to undo...