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...three days, but the best they usually seem to manage is several hours under wet burlap in open markets where they're sold for their flesh. On dry land under a sunny sky, they fricassee fast. And while snakeheads have indeed popped up in half a dozen states besides Maryland, they've done so in modest numbers. Florida reported a single pair of river snakeheads near Orlando in 2001; Massachusetts encountered a single specimen last October. Florida has a population that appears to be breeding, but only in Hawaii, where the fish is isolated on the island of Oahu, does...
Jack Girvan, a college-funding adviser in Hyannis, Mass., recounts how a couple burst into tears in his office last week after telling their daughter that she would have to transfer from St. Mary's, a private college in Maryland, to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (not to be confused with private Amherst College). "She was devastated," Girvan says. But the family had few alternatives after its savings in stocks designated for her remaining education and that of two siblings dropped from...
...writing test provides increased validity in predicting college success, but, more importantly, it sends a loud and clear message that strong writing is essential to success in college and beyond,” said Linda Clement, chair of the College Board trustees and vice president of the University of Maryland at College Park...
...years appeared at the conference. "This meeting was tinged with fear, anger and a great deal of concern over what's happening in Africa and what could happen in other parts of the world," says Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland's Biotechnology Institute. Gallo is credited, along with French scientist Luc Montagnier, with pinpointing the link between HIV and AIDS. "I don't want to say there was pessimism, but there was a realization that a lot of the critical issues - like providing follow-up studies and continuing care...
...last time the court considered the question of executing the retarded was in Penry's case in 1989. At that time just two states, Georgia and Maryland, forbade it. Now 18 do--almost half the number, 38, that permit capital punishment. In the majority opinion he wrote last week, John Paul Stevens called that a "dramatic shift in the state legislative landscape." Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the dissenters--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas were the other two--declared that the majority's decision rested upon nothing but "the personal views of its members...