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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George F. Will Chevy Chase, Md...
Montgomery County, Md., offers bonuses to developers for providing certain public facilities. If they build pedestrian walkways or include an entrance to Washington, D.C.'s subway system as part of their buildings, they are permitted to increase floor space or add extra stories to new structures. The county has also set up a novel way to protect farmland from suburbanization. Farmers can sell "rural development rights" for their property to builders, who can then use those rights in such urban areas as Bethesda and Silver Spring. The farmer gets paid, his land is protected from builders, since the development...
...which is scheduled for deployment in West Germany four months from now but has failed in five of its 16 experimental firings. Every one of the misfires, Wickham charged, was the result of quality-control problems. Pershing's contractor is the Martin Marietta Corp., with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. Army officials familiar with the program explained that the most recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that...
...document where a baby may be unable to pick up sensory data; we can spot abnormalities in the emotional areas," says Stanley Greenspan, chief of the Clinical Infant Research Unit of the National Institute of Mental Health in Adelphi, Md. "There is no evidence that an infant's emotional problems are self-corrective. The environment that contributed to early damage will continue to contribute if one does not intervene...
...unanswered. Yet even these blessings of the latest orthodoxy can be overdone. "We are learning that everything will have an impact on an infant, but we still need to know exactly what happens," cautions Psychologist Rose Caron of George Washington University's Infant Research Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. "It's conceivable that a child's competency might be diminished because of too much early stimulation...