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Emigrants from London, 83 percent of whom were male, were often drawn by the fortunes that could be made in the American iron industry and the rapidly growing construction business. Craftsmen of all kinds were in demand in the booming colonies, especially in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Bailyn identifies the hardships of living in the great metropolis of London as an important motivation for emigration, terming the city with typical flair, "a tumultuous human agglomeration abounding in contrasts between wealth and poverty, elegance and brutality, beauty and squalor...
About 80% of public-school children in major U.S. cities now take some kind of sex-education course. As for national figures, no one knows for sure: sex education is strictly a local matter, varying widely from one community to the next, and few accurate statistics are kept. Only Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., require the subject in all schools...
...light of the death last summer of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias from cocaine intoxication and the crisis in sports revenue that many smaller schools are facing, the Ivy League philosophy seems to be on the upswing, according to some athletic officials...
Ronald Reagan, who campaigned in Maryland to defeat her, called Mikulski a "wily liberal." He was only half right. Liberal, certainly. Mikulski, a former social worker, got her start in politics almost 20 years ago by organizing a coalition of blacks and ethnics to block construction of a 16- lane highway that would have destroyed their homes. In five years on the Baltimore city council and five terms in Congress, she has defined her special constituencies as blue-collar workers, women, children and the aged...
...their citizenship, but they have invested in the U.S. By selling half their Seagram stock during the 1960s, Edward and Peter multiplied their assets into controlling interests in more than 100 companies with an estimated total value of more than $30 billion. In the U.S., those holdings include the Maryland-based Rouse Co. (1985 revenues: $247 million) and California's Ernest Hahn real estate...