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Leaman holds similarly high expectations for another blueliner, Peter Hafner of Gaitherburg, Md...
Nick Martin, for instance, who studies at the University of Gallen in Switzerland, attended The German School in Potomac, Md., a K-12 school taught mostly in German and intended for the children of diplomats and military personnel stationed in the D.C. area. Coming to Harvard has been easy, he says. “I feel like a lot of other undergraduates,” Martin says. “I can go to a sports bar and understand the concept of baseball. I probably won’t take away as much culturally but it’s much...
...like Fort Knox compared with wireless communications. "On a wired or fiber system, there's a physical path that someone has to penetrate. With wireless, the geographic area and the technology to access it are much, much broader," says Noel Matchett, president of Information Security, based in Silver Spring, Md., and a former National Security Agency cryptographer...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
...schools in the city to seven independent operators. The outside contractors include Edison, based in New York City and the largest of the companies that manage public schools as a business; Victory Schools, a much smaller New York City firm with schools in that city aswell as in Baltimore, Md.; and the Chancellor Beacon Academies of Coconut Grove, Fla., which operates charter schools and private day schools around the country. Two nonprofit organizations were also given schools to run, and both Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania will provide extensive services atothers. In addition, the panel hired Paul Vallas...