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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Neil Armstrong, NASA, Robert Heinlein
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Track star Alix Membreno has been crucial to Navy's basketball success
Alix Membreno was not destined to play Division I college basketball, let alone become a key member of a team that has now made three straight NCAA tournaments. Recruited to Navy as a state champion and record-holder javelin thrower in New Mexico,...
Tags: Long Island, Basketball, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, College Sports, Graduation
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Colgate vs. Navy: Three things to watch
Navy owns an 11-4 advantage in this Patriot League series, and the Midshipmen have won three of the last four meetings. No. 16 Colgate (6-2 overall and 1-0 in the conference) has won three consecutive games since dropping back-to-back contests to No. 2...
Tags: Mark Dixon, ESPN (tv network)
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2012-13 All-Metro first team for boys indoor track
For The Baltimore SunCarrington Akosa Western Tech, junior * Won two state titles at the Class 1A championship meet * Captured the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.58, edged out Pikesville's Maury Sall in the 300 (35.38), and ran on the second-place 1,600 relay team *...Tags: Perry Hall, Cross Country Running, High School Sports, Track and Field, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Baltimore sports: From hurrah to harrumph
For Baltimore sports fans, now is the early spring of our discontent. Could it really be that just six weeks ago, we were living in sports fandom ecstasy? The Baltimore Ravens were parading down Pratt Street hoisting a Vince Lombardi Trophy, having won...
Tags: Brian Roberts, Baseball, NFL Pro Bowl, Colin Kaepernick, Major League Baseball
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Pennsylvania briefs
Operational Research is focus of science lecture CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — The potential of operations research to improve our world will be the topic of Sommer Gentry, who will speak at Wilson College on Wednesday, April 3, as part of the “...Tags: Science and Technology, Unity (music group), Good Friday, Religious Festivals, Research
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Severna Park Marine dies in Nevada military training accident
He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm....
Tags: Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Air and Space Accidents, U.S. Department of Defense, College Baseball, Taylor Swift
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Robert P. Slaff, charter boat captain
Robert P. Slaff, a former marine-supply vendor and journalist who wrote widely on Chesapeake Bay maritime and environmental matters, died March 8 of congestive heart failure at Crofton Care and Rehabilitation Center. The Epping Forest resident was 89....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Star Sailing, Fishing, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), U.S. Navy
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Your guide to 'American Idol' finalist Devin Velez
A quick primer on Devin Velez, in nine items: 1. He is one of nine remaining finalists on Season 12 of "American Idol," the Fox network singing competition, and the only contestant left from the Chicago area. 2. The 18-year-old lives in the Portage...
Tags: Carrie Underwood, Portage Park, Nicki Minaj, John Lennon, Beyonce
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Navy midfielder Kiernan aims to lead by more than example
Pat Kiernan, Navy's do-it-all long-stick midfielder, plays wing on faceoffs and is a threat to score in transition. He acknowledged, however, that there is one area of his game that needs work: his voice. "I would definitely say that I've tried to be...
Tags: Mark Dixon, Annapolis, Loyola University Maryland, Face-Off Classic, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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First printed maps on exhibit at St. John's College
The page from an encyclopedia shows an ocean ring around a circle that is partitioned by a T-shape into three continents — Asia, Africa and Europe. The continents are populated by Noah's sons, from whom mankind descended after the flood, according...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, AAA, Petroleum Industry, Annapolis, Arts and Culture
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Carroll County native killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash
Sara Knutson Cullen was as comfortable in a dress and stiletto heels as she was smoking cigars and flying Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan — a driven and level-headed 27-year-old whose dreams stretched far beyond her roots in Carroll County,...
Tags: Armed Forces, Pakistan, U.S. Department of Defense, Accidental Death, West Point
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