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Two men died as the result of accidents on state roads this week. A bicyclist was struck and killed by a car Thursday evening on Marley Neck Boulevard, Anne Arundel County police said. Robert Edward Travers, 40, was riding his bike on the north shoulder of the road when an automobile swerved and struck him. The driver of the car, Maria Luisa Osterman of Glen Burnie, pulled off the road and motioned to another motorist to stop and help. According to police reports, Travers, who had no fixed address, died at the scene.

Grady Dale Jr.: A 'Beautiful' Marylander takes care of the 0) childrenFor Grady Dale Jr., a Baltimore psychologist, it is not enough to tend to African-American children whose lives have been warped by urban strife.The troubled community itself must be tended to as well, Dr. Dale says. Not only by individuals such as himself, but by coalitions of concerned citizens and activists.Dr. Dale's efforts to heal Baltimore's young and their blighted neighborhoods were recognized last week at an Annapolis ceremony sponsored by the state's "Maryland You are Beautiful" office.

An Annapolis man was killed Sunday when his car crossed the center line and collided head-on with another vehicle on Bay Dale Drive near Arnold, Anne Arundel County police said. About 11:45 a.m., Ronald Stephen Isaacs, 47, was driving south on Bay Dale Drive near the intersection with Capetown Road when his Pontiac Grand Am struck a box truck driven by Michael Alan Davis, 33, of Baltimore, police said. Issacs was pronounced dead at the scene. Davis and his two passengers were not injured, police said.

The Glenelg Country School Concert Series will deviate from its usual slate of classical chamber music to play some top 40 music -- from 50 years ago.Tomorrow, the Cocuzzi/Dale Swingtet jazz quartet will perform swing music selections by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and Fats Waller in the Gould Building that houses the Upper School.Alan Dale, co-founder of the quartet, said the group performs music that pop culture has largely ignored despite its American origins. "We're playing the music that Tony Bennett refers to as ++ the genius in American music," Mr. Dale said, listing Count Basie, George Gershwin and Johnny Mercer as examples.

As sweethearts Mark Dale and Sarah Raley of Southern Maryland waited yesterday to discover whether they had won the Today show's annual dream wedding contest, Dale grabbed the hand he asked for in marriage last year and nervously stroked it with his thumb. "I thought he was going to put a hole in my hand. Just before they announced it he whispered to me, `My heart is in my throat!'" Raley said. Her hand more or less intact, Raley and Dale learned on the live telecast they had won the contest over three other finalists.

ROCKINGHAM, N.C. - With two laps to go yesterday in the Dura Lube 400, driver Steve Park started to cry. He was out front, leading the race, and all he could think about was that he going to win this Winston Cup race for Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt, a seven-time Winston Cup champion who owned Park's team and two others, was killed Feb. 18 in the Daytona 500. This was the organization's first chance to show its strength and how much it emulates the strong man who had been its boss. "I had to wipe my nose and get back up on the steering wheel," said Park, his voice still shaking.

Dan RodricksITOLD MARTINA Burger, who was very accommodating and who gave me more of her time than I ever expected, that I would not debate the war in Iraq with the grieving mother of a Marine who was killed there. I oppose the war, she doesn't. But I never argue with the next of kin, even if they seem willing to engage the subject, as Martina Burger did yesterday. That's not why I contacted her at her house in Port Deposit. Sometimes, you just want to talk and learn a little more about a young man, like Marine Cpl. Dale Burger Jr., who died Sunday in the Fallujah operation.

Find the secret compartment, said Wilfred "Bill" Dale, issuing a challenge.There's no extra space behind the jewelry cabinet's 12 small drawers and the one large drawer. Tug on the top molding; immovable. OK, where is it?Like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat, the 79-year-old head of an amateur craftsmen's group called the Woodpeckers flicked up the top of his mahogany cabinet to reveal the previously invisible hiding place.Such intricate examples of the woodworkers' art will be on display June 11, when the Woodpeckers, a Baltimore-area group, meets for its annual show and competition at the Williamsburg Inn in White Marsh.

Poems of simple pleasure, poems of quiet celebration, well, they aren't anything like those poems we were asked to wrestle with in high school, our teachers insisting that we get a headlock on THE MEANING. This one by Dale Ritterbusch of Wisconsin is more my cup of tea. -Ted Kooser "Green Tea" There is this tea I have sometimes, Pan Long Ying Hao, so tightly curled it looks like tiny roots gnarled, a greenish-gray. When it steeps, it opens the way you woke this morning, stretching, your hands behind your head, back arched, toes pointing, a smile steeped in ceremony, a celebration, the reaching of your arms.

On January 18, 2005, IRVIN "Marty" MAUERHAN, JR.; beloved husband of Barbara Mauerhan; devoted father of Marcia and her husband Charlie, and Susan and her husband Dale; doting Pop-Pop of Kimmie and Kelsey; brother of Carol, Audrey, Frannie, Gary, Dale and the late Albert, Pat, Margie and Nancy. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road, on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. and on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Saturday at 12 noon at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 37th Street and Hickory Avenue.