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...Kennedy Shriver does, however. She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism. She is entitled to such expansiveness. She and her husband started a summer camp for the mentally handicapped in the backyard of their Maryland home in 1961, and this was the beginning of the Special Olympics. Eunice Shriver is said to despise public speaking, but her speech was a brief, clear moment in an overlong and somewhat celebrity-clogged opening ceremony. She spoke of the "courageous spirt and the generous heart," and then...
Several weeks later Carl Bower, 21, a journalism major at the University of Maryland, learned that TIME had scheduled a Show Business story on the impact of AIDS on the arts. He promptly volunteered to photograph a gathering of entertainers paying tribute to AIDS victims in show business. To Bower's delight, two of his pictures ran with the story...
...dune to form in the first place, sand must somehow be trapped, much as a snow fence traps drifting snow. That something is dune grass. After the dunes form, the roots anchor the sand in place. "Dune grass is pretty hardy stuff," explains Stephen Leatherman, a University of Maryland coastal-erosion expert. "It can take salt spray and high winds. But it just never evolved to take heavy pedestrian traffic or dune buggies." Since the plants depend on chlorophyll in their green leafy parts to convert sunlight into food, he says, and since there is only so much food reserve...
...nearly a million Americans who suffer the double jeopardy of mental illness and chemical dependence. "Only in the past few years have mental health professionals realized how devastating the combination can be," says John Talbott, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland and co-author of a study commissioned by the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) that will be released next week. Says Talbott: "There is no such thing as recreational drug use or a social drink for someone with a severe psychiatric illness...
Last week everyone from Virginia and Maryland housewives to Capitol Hill secretaries and foreign diplomats were streaming to Dale City to take advantage of discounts of up to 70% off IKEA's regular low prices. A sofa that normally goes for $195 was $95, while $69 dining-room chairs were marked down to $49. The 3.5 million people in the Washington area could hardly miss the 330 radio and TV commercials touting the sale -- or the double-page ad in the Washington Post. City buses winked with the company's cryptogram: an eye and a key followed...