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These jeers greeted Johnny Bigley, 3, when he arrived at school last week in Pasadena, Md., escorted by his father. Johnny is too young to understand why he is being spurned by the older children, why all five of his classmates have boycotted the special speech-therapy course he attends, and why their parents sought a court order to bar him from the classroom...
Public health officials sought to quell the growing panic. "The parents were concerned that their children would get some horrible, disfiguring disease," says Dr. Steven Strauss, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least...
...Robbins, soon nicknamed Nancy, was born in 1921 in Manhattan. Her parents, Car Salesman Kenneth Robbins and Actress Edith ("Lucky") Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...
DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md., doesn't have your average high school basketball program. It has, quite simply a sharp shooting, smooth-handling, defense-swarming, slam-dunking dynasty...
...observation of the heavens. AMPTE was designed to turn space into an active laboratory. "Rather than wait for chance events to happen, we decided to go out there and simulate natural conditions," says Mario Acuña, an astrophysicist with NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md...