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...convicted child rapist working as a technician in a Boston hospital riffled through 1,000 computerized records looking for potential victims (and was caught when the father of a nine-year-old girl used caller ID to trace the call back to the hospital). How a banker on Maryland's state health commission pulled up a list of cancer patients, cross-checked it against the names of his bank's customers and revoked the loans of the matches. How Sara Lee bakeries planned to collaborate with Lovelace Health Systems, a subsidiary of Cigna, to match employee health records with work...
...idea is that the church will provide a sense of community and a support network that a welfare office typically does not. "The people in the faith-based institutions are truly interested in the participants," says special-programs manager Christine Poulsen, who coordinates welfare recipient-church partnerships for Maryland's Anne Arundel County. "The congregation becomes a minifamily" for those enrolled. The results in Anne Arundel have been impressive: 19 of the 26 welfare recipients who went through the program are now self-supporting...
...story that fuels the film. Staying away from the personal life of a man who wasn't particularly interested in his own (his kids barely appear in the film), the story focuses solely on Wallace's political career. Opening with the day he was shot while campaigning in Maryland for his 1972 presidential bid, the movie then hops back to his first gubernatorial campaign, slowing down to fill in some background before taking off with his infamous 1963 inaugural speech: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" From here the film whirls through key moments in Wallace's career: blocking...
...Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face value, and covers...
...this work, the little-known International Occultation Timing Association issued a call on its Web page, inviting volunteers to tape the eclipse--synchronizing their recordings with the Weather Channel, whose programming appears at the same hours all over the country--and then mail the cassettes to the organization's Maryland headquarters. By the day of the event, the Website had received some 7,400 hits, and organizers hope for hundreds of recordings. "The more tapes the better, " says Avalle. "And we expect plenty...