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Twelve states have already enacted growth-management laws. Tennessee just adopted one of the strictest, requiring many cities to impose growth boundaries around their perimeters. In Maryland, counties get state money for roads and schools only if they agree to confine growth to areas that the state has designated as suitable. But managed growth is not a win-win proposition. When laws make it harder to build in the countryside, new development is pressed into more expensive land closer to town. That can mean higher home prices, so the single mother who manages a doctor's office or the couple...
...cancer drug Taxol for $400,000--just one of many alleged plots to fleece R. and D.-rich pharmaceutical firms. Last spring a Gillette consultant went to prison for trying to market secret designs of the company's Mach3 razor to competitors such as Bic. And a small Maryland soft-drink distributor claims that Coca-Cola Enterprises, the bottler partly owned by Coke, used wiretapping and other shady tactics to destroy his business. CCE denies all the charges...
HRDC's new production of Sophocles' Antigone is a bit overwhelming at first, beginning with a confusing torrent of voices and pantomimed scenes. What is important to understand is that Sophocles' classical Greek play has been transferred to Civil War-era Maryland, a border state and thus the most likely locale for the background story of the tragedy. Two brothers, sons of Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus), fight each other to the death, one brother killing the other and then dying from a bullet wound. Creon, the governor of Maryland (Edie Bishop '00) has declared that the Union Army brother will...
...Lost in the hype behind Francis is sophomore forward Terrence Morris, who scores 15.5 points per game and averages 7.2 rebounds while shooting almost 60 percent from the floor. Morris scored 20 in Maryland's second-round win over Creighton to go along with Francis's 18-point, 13-rebound double-double...
...Johnnies, for their part, have quite a cast of characters under the disciplined and effective tutelage of first-year Coach Mike Jarvis, and play the Little Engine that Could to Maryland's scoring machine...