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Obituary: Melissa Shepherd
Melissa Shepherd 1982-2013 Melissa Rae Shepherd passed away Feb. 8, 2013, after a 21⁄2-year courageous battle with brain cancer. Born June 11, 1982, in Lexington, Ky., she was a daughter of John and Nancy Rigney Shepherd. Melissa was a...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Medical Research, Baptist, Human Interest
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Wounded veterans turn to yoga for strength and solace
SAN DIEGO — Army 1st Sgt. Chris Montera, who lost both legs above the knee and suffered third-degree burns over 60% of his body in a mortar attack in Afghanistan, is doing a headstand, guided by yoga instructor Sunny Keays. "It takes a lot of...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Behavioral Conditions, Veterans Affairs, Afghanistan
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Gephyrophobia, or fear of bridges, tunnels more than just water under a bridge
Last fall, Kirk Crawley was heading east on Interstate 64 toward the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel to visit family. The 30-year-old Newport News man had made the trip countless times. But over the last few years, something was starting to happen, and this...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, National Institutes of Health, Hampton Roads, Travel
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Stephanie Hochschild prepares for new role at The Book Stall
If a predisposition to love literature were genetic, Stephanie Hochschild would be a gene carrier. Her mother is a librarian at the National Library of Medicine in her hometown of Bethesda, Md., and her aunt was a high school librarian in Florida. Her...
Tags: Book, Services and Shopping, Arts and Culture, Media Industry, Books and Magazines
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Meidhof wins Smithsburg Road Race on Day 1 of Tour of Washington County
brett.nieves@herald-mail.comJason Meidhof was able to outlast scores of other riders and took first place in Saturday’s Smithsburg Road Race as part of the 2013 Tour of Washington County. “It was a competitive field,” Meidhof said after his victory. “This... -
U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. In reclassifying chimps as...
Tags: AIDS, National Institutes of Health, Conservation, Medical Research, Endangered Species
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Doris Lane Czarra, 89
Doris Anne Catherine Lane Czarra, 89, of Boonsboro, Md., and formerly of Rohrersville, Md., Potomac, Md., and Bethesda, Md., departed this life peacefully on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at the Fahrney-Keedy Memorial Home also located in Boonsboro. She was...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Ansonia, Yale University, Elementary Schools, Crime, Law and Justice
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Dr. Martin Helrich
Dr. Martin Helrich, a pioneering anesthesiologist who had headed the department of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Sunday of complications from heart disease at his Pikesville home. He was 91. "Martin was so...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at School, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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06/03 Patents
Utility Patents A utility patent protects how something works and what it does. Central Florida inventors who have recently received utility patents include: Clifford E. Johnson, Orlando. A flow control through a resonator system of gas turbine...Tags: University of Central Florida, Lockheed Martin Corp., Siemens, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Intersil Holding Corporation
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As professor, he shaped teacher training at UCF
Robert Douglas Martin, who steered the elementary-education program at the University of Central Florida during its formative years, devoted his career to teaching teachers. As a professor and department chairman in UCF's College of Education, he took a...Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, University of Central Florida, Winter Park, Parkinson's Disease
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Hampton Roads sites in First Potomac Realty Trust sale
Eight Hampton Roads properties in Chesapeake and Hampton are part of First Potomac Realty Trust's sale of an industrial portfolio of 24 properties, the investment trust confirmed. First Potomac, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., announced earlier this...
Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Hampton Roads, First Potomac Realty Trust, Real Estate Sellers, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Lockheed's global arms sales buoyed by deals with Jordan, Finland
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando missiles unit has received two contracts worth a combined $51 million to provide certain military systems to the countries of Jordan and Finland, boosting its growing global arms business. Lockheed Missiles & Fire...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Missile Systems, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Military
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