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...started out studying the Milky Way and, along with Leo Blitz of the University of Maryland, discovered that our home galaxy is not just a simple spiral of stars and gas but rather a complex construction with warped edges and a bar of stars across the middle. Then he began thinking about dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of the universe, and realized that Earth should feel a "wind" of particles as it orbits the galaxy--an idea that dark-matter hunters are now testing...
Mark's candidacy presents an excruciating dilemma for many Maryland Democrats. His primary opponent is State Senator Christopher Van Hollen, 42, a hero to environmentalists, education groups and gun-control advocates--the voters that Democrats will need to defeat Morella. There's talk of a Solomonic solution: redistricting Montgomery County into two so that Van Hollen can run in the heavily Democratic parts and Shriver can vie with Morella for the rest. If that doesn't happen, Kathleen could lend a hand by tapping Van Hollen for the second spot on her ticket. It helps to have friends--and especially...
Today the Lieutenant Governor sits in a Maryland statehouse office once occupied by Thomas Jefferson, in a chair her father used as U.S. Attorney General. If she wins next year's Governor's race, as expected, it seems only a matter of time before she ends up on a national ticket...
When Joe was sweeping the field in Massachusetts in 1986, his elder sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, then 35, was racing around blue-collar neighborhoods outside Baltimore, her slip showing and her hair a mess. She had moved to Maryland two years before to be near her husband's family. Ignoring the Kennedy precept that home is where the opportunity is, she had bought a house just outside a reliably Democratic district. So when she decided to run for Congress, she found herself up against a nearly unbeatable Republican Congresswoman. Kathleen seemed unsure how--or whether--to capitalize on her biggest...
...awareness of "strengths in me I hadn't recognized." She is not always the steadiest politician--she is known for mangling the language in a way that seems more genetically Bush than Kennedy, with coinages such as "Hispanish"--but she has shaken off most of the doubts that Maryland's political elite once had about her. And no Kennedy of her generation has been as skillful as Kathleen at enjoying the benefits of being American royalty without being swallowed by them. Kathleen "lobbied the hell out of us" to nail down a prime-time speaking slot at last year...