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...bulletin board that allowed anyone who accessed it to copy for free a variety of software programs. Touted as the largest single instance of software piracy ever uncovered, LaMacchia's case was thrown out last December by Massachusetts Federal Judge Richard Stearns, who decided that the senior from Rockville, Maryland, had in fact committed no crime at all. In January U.S. Attorney Donald Stern announced that he would not appeal the decision...
...many other states, including Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Florida, divorce-education classes are required in some counties, or at the discretion of some family court judges. Some family judges have even taken it upon themselves to involve the children directly. As of last November, divorcing parents in Dade County, Florida, attend one mandatory course, while children attend another, called Kids in Divorce Succeeding (KIDS). Sherri Thrower, a 30-year-old mother of five, says the parenting classes have really helped her. "There were a lot of cobwebs in my mind," she says. "A lot of confusion...
...biochemistry concentrator, said he wrotehis USA Today essay about his experience lastsummer working at the National Cancer Institute inFrederick, Maryland...
...District has also suffered from demographic factors. In the past 35 years, its population has declined 25%, to its current 570,000. Middle-class families have moved to suburbs in Maryland and Virginia, depriving the city of millions of dollars in property-tax revenues. For the past several months, the District has been so broke that officials have refused to pay hundreds of contractors for work they have already done. ``It's devastating,'' says Lori Kaplan, executive director of a Latino youth center to which the city has owed $275,000 since last October. ``We're their support system...
WASHINGTON. This month marks the centenary of the death of Frederick Douglass, the Maryland slave born in 1818 who became the most renowned African-American voice of his generation in the U.S. antislavery movement and a relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...