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...contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination has provided black radio with several center stage moments. "When you need the black vote you deal with black radio, and that's what happening," says Ronald Walters, a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland at College Park. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
...quicker and more convenient, what about the jobs that will be lost? Companies will make more money without needing to pay as many employees, but will that really make the world better? I'm no economist, but I feel it will just make the rich richer. Jeff Richmond, Monrovia, Maryland...
...police units issued 6,000 tickets - two-thirds to drivers and one-third to pedestrians for jaywalking, Branyan said. Though Washington police, along with other law enforcement agencies, agree that the increase in text messaging endangers both drivers and pedestrians (many states have outlawed text messaging while driving, and Maryland and Virginia are considering banning cyclists from text messaging on the go), Branyan thinks that creating new laws to ban texting, particularly in urban areas where police already face many law-enforcement challenges, is less useful than enforcing laws that are already on the books...
...passport file of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton, dating back to the 1960s, was suspected of having been tampered with. During that campaign, there was much speculation regarding Clinton's activities and travels around the time of the Vietnam War. A clerk in a records warehouse in suburban Maryland discovered staple holes on copies of his passport applications and became concerned that part of the file was missing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an inquiry, but found what it said was "no evidence that tampering had occurred...
...Carroll, 49, who has been developing and fitting artificial limbs for more than 25 years, the IAAF's decision was not so much a setback as a welcome reminder of how far prosthetics technology has come. Vice president of prosthetics for Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics in Maryland, Carroll has become a go-to guy for disabled athletes who want to take artificial limbs to the extreme not only in competition but also in sports like ice-climbing, rock-climbing and skiing. He has created everything from prosthetic legs that function as crampons to feet that lock directly into ski bindings...