R. Sargent Shriver, First Peace Corps Director, Dies after Alzheimer's Battle Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., the first director of the Peace Corps and co-creator of the Special Olympics, has died at age 95 on January 18. On January 17, Sargent Shriver had been admitted to...
Josiah Henson, the subject of Harriett Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’ Cabin spent a night in a kitchen that was a log cabin. The North Bethesda community since grew up around the property and Montgomery County...
One Person Has Been Killed and At Least 10 Are Hurt After a Tour Bus Crashed Off I-270 in Bethesda MD Three people were originally trapped inside the bus that appears to have driven off the northbound HOV ramp before...
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Mouse Virus ( MLV - murine leukemia viruses) Linked To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) New Study ShowsChronic Fatigue Syndrome is still a mysterious and poor understood affliction but a new study seems to link MLV or commonly called the mouse virus with CFS."The new study...
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"Obama’s ideology of decline Make no doubt about it, Barack Obama, the man elected to be the 44th President of the United States, is an ideologue.Many argue that with his statements on Hope and Change centered...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 297 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
By Air Force Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo BETHESDA, Md.– Golfing great Tiger Woods spent the week leading up to our nation’s birthday honoring those men and women serving in the military during the Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am golf tournament at the Congressional...
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"""""" MUSSOORIE, 23 Dec: An intensive discussion was held at a meeting held in the Palika premises during which the public representatives, officials from various departments along with Mussoorie Palika President...
A Bethesda water main break has caused major flooding and has stranded morning commuters from the Maryland suburb. According to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission the pipe that burst was a 66-inch water...
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Last night at the stroke of midnight, Best Buy stores across the U.S. were open for business to launch the release of Bethesda's hotly anticipated Fallout 3 game.By early accounts, Fallout 3 is being hailed as...
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"CareToLive Sends Writ to Supreme Court of the United States October 24th, 2008 | Posted by CTL Share This While the FDA continues to tow the untenable line they have chosen and while they continue...
Marriott International is considering building a hotel in Baghdad's Green Zone.I'm not sure I would want to stay there to be honest; it wouldn't be my first choice for a holiday destination at the moment. "The...
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Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the experimental 'meta-crowdsourcing' projectAssignment Zero, with Jay Rosen, Wired, and the folks at NewAssignment.net, which undertook to explore all of the...
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This is really sad...a true loss for the U.N."Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a one-time Democrat who switched to the Republican Party and warmly embraced Reagan-era conservatism, has died. She was 80.
Kirkpatrick's death was announced Friday at the senior staff...
It's people like the late Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham that make
this great Country what it is. Policy and opinion aside, we should all be
thankful for the sacrifices of the men and women serving in Americas...
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