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The Girls Scouts have jumped on the health bandwagon with a new cookie -- Cinnamon Oatmeal Raisin Bar. It's not often a new selection surfaces -- maybe every three years -- and this one may be a sleeper."

Owen Carlson, a retired computer engineer who lived in Baltimore for more than 50 years, died of Alzheimer's disease Wednesday at a veterans hospital in Columbia, S.C. He was 82.Born in Calumet, Mich., Mr. Carlson earned an associate's degree at Michigan Technical College before working in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was a first lieutenant in the Army, serving in World War II and Korea.Mr. Carlson moved to Baltimore after World War II and worked for many years for what was then the Glenn L. Martin Co. He then was a computer engineer at Informatics Inc. in College Park for more than 15 years.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Arazi was officially discharged from quarantine Monday night and transferred to Barn 45 at Churchill Downs at 7 a.m. yesterday.He galloped a mile around the track with his exercise rider and groom, Raymond Lamornaca, and was in company with his constant companion, Akiko.About 100 reporters and photographers watched him train and then cool out, but three or four times that number might be out tomorrow morning, when he is expected a work about a half-mile.Head lad Fabien Gerard held an impromptu news conference and said that Arazi "is even better than [last]

Under what The Sun described as "billowing white clouds hung suspended in an azure sky, an all-star crowd of 32,244 crammed into Old Hilltop to witness the 72nd running of the Preakness in 1948.Included among the illuminati were cabinet members, statemen and congressmen, and such personalities as J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Dorothy Lamour and her husband, William Ross Howard."The enlarged dining room force had hardly completed placing table silver and the Woodlawn vase and its replica on a hall table in the clubhouse when the first of the many distinguished guests arrived, many wearing straw hats," reported The Sun. The crowd was serenaded by a red-coated 75-piece brass band, playing "Dixie" and "Maryland, My Maryland.

Gary Stevens caught the water bottle tossed his way, took one swig and threw it back. “He don't want any?” a man asked, considering jockeys usually shower their horses, too. Stevens shook his head from his perch atop Oxbow, the wire-to-wire winner of the 138th Preakness. “Ain't even tired,” he said. Stevens, a 50-year-old grandfather who came out of a seven-year retirement at the beginning of the year, used a daring ride to clinch an anti-climatic second leg of the Triple Crown at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.

BaseballAL: Named Red Sox SS Nomar Garciaparra Player of the Week.NL: Named Astros P Jose Lima Player of the Week.Brewers: Added P Bill Pulsipher and P Joe Hudson to roster. Optioned P Rafael Roque and P Valerio De Los Santos to Triple-A Louisville.Diamondbacks: Activated 3B Matt Williams from 15-day DL. Optioned OF Brent Brede to Triple-A Tucson.Expos: Promoted 1B Fernando Seguignol to Triple-A Ottawa.Marlins: Signed OF Chip Ambres, first-round draft choice and assigned him to Rookie-level Melbourne.

A 29-year-old man accused of first-degree murder in a July shooting near the Maryland Penitentiary that killed one man and wounded eight bystanders was in surgery last night at Sinai Hospital after being shot several times Wednesday night in Northwest Baltimore.Police have not been able to question Tyrone Taylor of the 2300 block of McCulloh St., since his hospitalization and do not know if the shooting was related to the July incident, said Detective David Neverdon."Hopefully, if he survives, he'll be able to shed some light on it," Detective Neverdon said.

It can be worth knowing what securities analysts think about a stock, if only so you can do the opposite of what they recommend.And so active stock-pickers might be interested in Analyst Watch, a new publication from Zack's Investment Research. The company's business has been selling to brokers and institutional investors information about analysts' estimates of corporate earnings and analysts' recommendations on stocks.Stock prices often jump or fall in response to an analyst's buy or sell recommendation or when a company's profit exceeds or matches the forecasts of analysts.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- As predicted by track oddsmaker Mike Battaglia, the fans at Churchill Downs have made the D. Wayne Lukas-trained entry of Serena's Song and Timber Country the 5-2 betting favorite in advance Kentucky Derby wagering.More than $1 million was bet on the Derby yesterday on the Kentucky Oaks card.The other odds, after the advance bets were totaled, were Jumron, 9-2; Talkin Man, 5-1; the six-horse "field" entry of Knockadoon, Lake George, In Character, Ski Captain, Mecke and Citadeed, 9-1; Suave Prospect, 10-1; Tejano Run, 10-1; Afternoon Deelites, 11-1; Wild Syn, 13-1; the entry of Pyramid Peak and Jambalaya Jazz, 17-1; Eltish, 18-1; Thunder Gulch, 26-1, and Dazzling Falls, 34-1.

DID YOU REALIZE that many people recently became discouraged with dividends because they slipped below 3 percent in 1992 and remained low ever since? Especially in this bull market, you often hear, "Dividends don't matter."But don't count them out. Over 70 years, dividends accounted for 43 percent of the total return on the Standard & Poor's 500 index stocks, which compounded at 10.7 percent a year. But because of stocks' meteoric rise recently, dividends slipped to 17 percent of the S&P stocks' total return.