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Joseph A. "Buck" Abell Jr., a Carroll County businessman, died of cancer Sunday at his Winfield home. He was 72. A self-employed school bus contractor, Mr. Abell was also a farmer for many years in Carroll County. He owned Abell's Home Center, a Mount Airy hardware store, for nearly 10 years. At his death, he owned Bloom Valley Senior Care, an assisted-living center in Winfield, with his wife of eight years, Joscha Egberink Abell. Mr. Abell was born in Carroll County. He was a great-nephew of A.S. Abell, founder of The Sun, the family said.

LAST WEEK, PARENTS, students, and school administrators faced many challenges typical of the first week of school. The focus shifted from the relaxed, carefree days of summer to new schedules, routines and the structured regime of a new school year. School bus drivers also did their share in contributing to the success of the hectic first week of school. Since the opening of Century High School, some drivers' routes include students from two high schools on the same bus. The number of combined buses is down to six this year, with four that combine South Carroll High School students with Century High students, and two that combine Liberty High School students with students from Century.

Herbert S. BridgeSpace scientistHerbert S. Bridge, 76, a space scientist who had a pivotal role in exploration of the solar system by unmanned spacecraft and in mapping the solar winds swirling through interplanetary space, died Wednesday in Boston of coronary artery disease.Dr. Bridge retired as director of the Center for Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, when he became professor emeritus of physics. He joined the center as associate director at its inception in 1965 and was appointed director in 1978.

On Monday, April 28, 2003, CORNELIA HESS MURPH, age 78, passed at Dosher Nursing Center, Southport, NC; beloved wife of the late George Edwin Murph; daughter of the late Lonzo Jefferson Hess and Nelly Bly Lefler Hess. She is survived by sons Daniel Murph of Oak Island, NC, and David Murph of Columbia, MD; sister Margaret Human of Kannapolis, NC; grandson Douglas Murph and wife Trish of Norfolk, VA; and great-granddaughter Kelly Anne Murph of Norfolk, VA. Visitation will take place on Friday, May 2, from noon to 1 P.M. at Lyerly Funeral Home, 515 S. Main St., Salisbury, NC., Funeral Service to immediately follow in the funeral home's James C. Lyerly Chapel.

It's way too early for me or anyone else to say anything that approaches the grandiose about the baseball managerial skills of William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter as they pertain to the last-place Baltimore Orioles. But his arrival here, as well as the team's binge of winning last week, reminds me — and, I hope, you — of something that we too often overlook in the day-to-day conduct of life: The young need inspiration and approval, even athletes who makes millions of dollars a year.

Father's Day came and went with little respect, honor or celebration for fatherhood's basic biological prerequisite -- being male.Maleness has been under relentless assault for a generation. Feminists first blew the bugle and still lead the attack. They accuse men of being violent, destructive, exploitative, competitive, abusive, domineering and misogynous. Some of them hold the male gender responsible for war and environmental degradation, as well as the oppression of women.This demonology of maleness contrasts with feminism's affirming vision of womanhood.

Detroit -- From a technical standpoint, the Ravens' Kelly Gregg said yesterday's game was no different than any other for him and his fellow defensive linemen. From the referees' standpoint, it was another story. The Ravens were hit with a franchise-record 21 penalties in the 35-17 loss to the Detroit Lions, two of them holding calls against Gregg and fellow tackle Maake Kemoeatu on a drive in the second quarter. "You've just got to look at the tape," Gregg said. "On mine, I just don't know.

LIKE RANDY MILLIGAN, WHO GOES BY MOOSE IN THE ORIOLES locker room, and James Brown, the Godfather of Soul on stage, Robert Keller has a nickname all his own. Around the 15th floor of the Legg Mason building, he is referred to simply, and sometimes quite seriously, as Mr. Vision.He admits to this and lets out a hearty laugh, seemingly pleased with his image as a leader charting the business course of a city.It's a title some say Mr. Keller has earned. As president of the Greater Baltimore Committee, an organization representing 1,000 of the area's largest companies, he was responsible for recently unveiling an ambitious blueprint to make Baltimore the nation's leader in "life sciences."

FREDERICK -- Allison Bly, known throughout the minor league baseball and Monster Truck circuits as the Dynamite Lady, signs autographs during a Frederick Keys baseball game. A 9-year-old girl, Samantha Cook from Washington, approaches timidly."Is she going to die?" the little girl says in the breathless, hushed tone of one speaking in a mortuary.The Dynamite Lady says cheerfully: "No honey, I'm not going to die. But you're going to stay and watch the show, aren't you?"Who isn't staying? This 29-year-old bubbly, fresh-faced woman is soon going to climb into a plastic foam box at home plate and blow herself to smithereens.

For almost two hours, Michael Douglas' character in the movie "Falling Down" screams his rage and fury. His attitude of "I don't give a damn anymore" sums up the growing frustration among a segment of society that feels it is losing power. White males in America."There are a number of issues that men today, especially young men, are angry about," says Dr. Charles T. Lo Presto, 46, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Loyola College in Baltimore.By the year 2010, for example, white men "will be a distinct minority in the work force to people of color and women," says Dr. Lo Presto, quoting recent studies.