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By Frank D. Roylance | October 12, 2009
For Cockeysville businessman Ron Ryba, the long walk from the parking lot to the stadium in Philadelphia was a 29-year trail of memories. He had come to meet the son he and his high school sweetheart had never dared to look at when they gave him up for adoption nearly three decades earlier. Now the baby was a grown man. What would he say to him? What would he look like? For Phil Bloete, too, the 2004 meeting at a Phillies game was the culmination of a lifelong dream. He was 28, a high school English teacher in New Jersey.
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By Adam Pertman and Naomi Cahn | February 25, 2009
Hard on the heels of the sensational story of Nadya Suleman - the California woman who has added octuplets to her family of six children - comes the news that a 60-year-old woman recently gave birth to twins in Canada. So we are reminded yet again that doctors are getting better and better at delivering what, in years past, would have been reasonably described as miracles. And important questions are being asked as a result, such as: Is it responsible for a woman to bear children regardless of her age or the number of babies involved?
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December 26, 2008
Many feel left out by holiday feasting I was saddened to read Kevin Cowherd's column "This Christmas, don't give us food issues" (Dec. 21). Judging by the ever-increasing epidemic of obesity in our society, it appears that many people still celebrate the holidays, and every other day, "with full-throttle eating and drinking." But holiday dinners and parties can leave the unfortunate few who suffer from chronic illnesses that prevent them from enjoying the season's gastronomic bounty feeling deprived, embarrassed and depressed.
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By Rona Marech | November 23, 2008
Loretta and Tom Faulkner had been trying to have a child for seven years when the Department of Social Services called in 2006 and said they had a foster child to place with them. Her name was Hope, which Loretta took as a sign. "I was always hoping she would be mine," she said. It has been a long journey: Hope, who weighed less than 5 pounds when the Faulkners took her in as a 4-day-old, was returned to her birth mother after two months. But in the beginning of the year, when the biological mother went through a rough patch, she asked the Faulkners if they could take the toddler back.
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By RICK MAESE | November 20, 2008
COLLEGE PARK - For the fifth time in six seasons, Maryland's field hockey team has reached the final four. There are many reasons for the Terps' consistency, but none as steady and laudable as coach Missy Meharg. And now, Meharg is ready to share a bit of the secret to her success. "I wanted to keep the boys and our family out of what it is I do for a living," Meharg says. "The reality is, they've been such a huge part of it that I think it's a good time. They've had such a huge role on our successes."
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November 20, 2008
Maritime museum celebrates renovation The Annapolis Maritime Museum will celebrate the renovation of the historic McNasby Oyster Co. building with a grand reopening ceremony from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 1 at 723 Second St., Annapolis. The $1.2 million project was funded by the state, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority and the City of Annapolis, along with corporate and private donations, plus fundraisers. The 7,000-square-foot building features an assembly hall, caterer's kitchen and a large exhibition gallery.
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December 16, 2007
The Howard County Cat Club will hold a cat adoption show from noon to 3 p.m. today at Historic Savage Mill. Adult cats will be available for adoption inside the mill's main entrance. The club is a nonprofit no-kill, cat-rescue organization. Kittens are not available for adoption. Prospective adopters must complete an application, sign an adoption contract and pay an adoption fee of $100 for one cat and $150 for two. All of the cats are neutered or spayed and have current vaccinations.
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November 8, 2007
Cory L. Richards' excellent column "Abortion vs. adoption: deflating mythical link" (Opinion * Commentary, Nov. 4) rightly points out the hypocrisy of politicians such as Rudolph W. Giuliani on the abortion vs. adoption issue. However, in reality, the hypocrisy of the pro-life movement on adoption is even worse than Mr. Giuliani's self-serving platitudes. While the pro-life movement has demanded strict regulation of abortion for many years, many of its organizations have not only failed to support but have often actively obstructed meaningful regulation of adoption in recent decades.
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By Cory L. Richards | November 4, 2007
Striving to find the "middle ground" on abortion - that is, coming up with ways acceptable to pro-choice and pro-life Americans alike to reduce the number of abortions in the United States - is a worthwhile undertaking. But it also has given rise to some fairly resilient myths about the best way to achieve this goal. Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani prominently featured one such myth in a recent speech to a group of social conservatives. The former New York City mayor stated that "we (the city)
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By Teresa Lewi | June 27, 2007
About two decades ago, Kathleen Schwartz says, she felt sorry for a 20-year-old horse named Toby who was so weak and sick from years of neglect that he was not expected to survive much longer. At a time when Howard County animal control was not equipped to handle abused or neglected horses, Schwartz nursed Toby back to health and cared for him for about eight years until he died. Soon after encountering Toby, she began caring for other ill horses as a family project. Kathleen and her then-husband Allan Schwartz established Days End Farm Horse Rescue in 1989, and the nonprofit animal welfare organization has rapidly expanded to become one of the primary horse rescue facilities in the state.