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Despite a slight increase in attendance this year to more than 92,000 for the week, and another scintillating finish Sunday, the founding co-chairman of the McDonald's LPGA Championship openly questions the support the tournament is receiving from the corporate community and the state of Maryland. As a result, the long-term future of the event remaining in Harford County is up for debate. "I wouldn't say there's [an immediate] concern about the future of the tournament here - we have a couple of years on the contract - but we're definitely concerned that the numbers are going down and we're hoping to figure out ways for them to go back up," Frank Quinn said Sunday afternoon.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co., the biggest U.S. chemical company, said yesterday that it will cut 800 jobs in its agricultural chemicals business, or about 15 percent of the unit's work force, to trim costs and boost profit.The cuts would result in pretax savings of $200 million annually in DuPont's crop protection business, which makes herbicides, fungicides and insecticides used on soybeans, corn and other grains, the company said. DuPont expects to take an unspecified third-quarter charge for the job cuts and is also considering writing off assets.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co., the largest U.S. chemicals company, said yesterday that it will eliminate 1,400 jobs in its money-losing polyester business, about 14 percent of the unit's work force, and cut production to save $90 million a year.The maker of Dacron polyester and Stainmaster carpet fibers said it will trim 800 DuPont positions and end contracts with other companies that affect 600 jobs. About 80 percent of the job cuts will be in North America.DuPont expects to take charges of 4 cents a share in the second quarter for severance pay and 2 cents to 4 cents a share for asset write-offs.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co. said yesterday that it will cut 1,300 jobs, or 8.7 percent of the work force, in its coatings unit as it integrates the Herberts paint business it bought for $1.8 billion from Germany's Hoechst AG.DuPont, the biggest U.S. chemical company, said it will shut six Herberts plants in Europe, Mexico and Brazil and shed 500 manufacturing jobs and 800 corporate positions over the next nine months.The moves were anticipated at the time of purchase and won't hurt 1999 earnings, the company said.

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WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co., the biggest U.S. chemicals company, said yesterday that it will issue a new class of stock to track the performance of its life sciences business and expand the unit through alliances and acquisitions.The company said it is discussing alliances with unspecified pharmaceutical companies to build up its relatively small drug business this year, and is looking to expand in other life sciences including agriculture, biotechnology and nutrition.The plan comes about a year after DuPont said it would increase its focus on life sciences, which are generally faster-growing than its traditional chemicals businesses.

ELMONT, N.Y. -- Allen Jerkens began earning his nickname, "Giant Killer," in 1962 when his horse, Beau Purple, twice upset the incomparable Kelso.The wily Hall of Fame trainer will try again tomorrow in the 131st Belmont Stakes to slay another giant, Charismatic, as he attempts to win the Triple Crown. But this time, instead of trying to defeat a horse of Allaire duPont's -- she owned Kelso -- Jerkens will attempt to spring the upset with a horse duPont owns, Best of Luck.DuPont bred Best of Luck -- and Kelso and other stakes winners -- at her Woodstock Farm in Cecil County.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co. has agreed to buy the 80 percent of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. that it does not already own for $7.7 billion in cash and stock, or $40 a share, to boost its growing agriculture unit.Des Moines, Iowa-based Pioneer Hi-Bred, the world's largest seed-corn company, has annual sales of $1.8 billion from genetically enhanced grains and feed additives.DuPont said it would pay cash for 45 percent of the shares and stock for the rest. The offer is an 81 percent premium over Pioneer's closing price Wednesday, before news of discussions between the two companies lifted Pioneer's shares.

NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks fell yesterday, after DuPont Co., the largest U.S. chemicals company, warned that its second-quarter earnings will be below analysts' forecasts.The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 85.19 to 9,089.78, its biggest loss in almost three weeks. The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 7.81 to 1,158.56.The Nasdaq composite index gained 4.43 to 1,939.82, its second consecutive record.Among other broad indexes, the Russell 2,000 index of small capitalization stocks inched up .03 to 460.00; the Wilshire 5,000 index lost 56.92 to 10,879.

SCHIZOPHRENIA is a terrible disease that can profoundly alter a person's perception of reality.In the paranoid form of the illness, the patient may experience frightening hallucinations or delusions.A family member, a neighbor or a passing stranger may be perceived as a malevolent impostor, a threatening robot or an attacking demon.Burnt toastSome patients believe that their thoughts are being broadcast to others, that transmitters have been placed in their bodies or that they are under electronic surveillence wherever they go.A burnt slice of toast, an unlucky number on the license plate of a passing car or a frown from the boss are not only taken as intentional harassment, but are cited as clues to the identity of a persecutor and evidence of the conspirator's omnipotence.

On April 20, 2009, MARIE WILLIAMS. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Saturday at 10:30 A.M. at St. John Baptist Church, 2929 Dupont Avenue. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 A.M.

Suddenly, on March 1, 2009 , John A. Darden Sr. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday March 12, 2009 at 11:00A.M. at Dupont Park SDA Church, 3985 Massachusetts Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20019

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Wilmington, Del. - The rich are different from the rest of us. They have better gardens. But if we are lucky, they let us visit those gardens, drinking in the serenity, marveling at the perfection. That is certainly the case with Nemours, the mansion and gardens created at the turn of the 20th century by Alfred I. duPont, the great-great-grandson of Pierre Samuel duPont, the French aristocrat who immigrated to this country and founded a family fortune by making gunpowder. Nemours, both the 47,000-square-foot mansion and the 220 acres of gardens, has just undergone a $39 million face-lift overseen by Sandra Parson Vicchio of the Baltimore architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross, which also designed the award-winning visitors center.

GGP added to short-selling ban U.S. regulators added General Growth Properties Inc. and eight other companies yesterday to the list of stocks temporarily protected against short sales. The addition of General Growth came a day after the company - which owns most of the regional malls in the Baltimore area and is the master developer of Columbia - announced that it might need to sell assets or equity to raise capital. Yesterday's additions bring to 926 the number of protected companies, according to exchange data.

Elizabeth "Betty" DuPont, a volunteer and former Lutherville resident, died of aortic stenosis Sunday at a nursing home in South Portland, Maine. She was 89. Elizabeth Lunt was born and raised in South Portland. After graduating from high school in 1936, she attended Northeastern Business College. After moving to Lutherville in 1959, Mrs. DuPont became an active member of Havenwood Presbyterian Church and was a former board member of the Presbyterian Home of Maryland in Towson. Mrs. DuPont was an enthusiastic cook and enjoyed entertaining family and friends.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- No sense putting on airs if you're the straightforward First State, and an itty bitty one, at that. When you have a home as fine as Nemours, built in 1910 by Alfred I. duPont, you don't pretend it's a "cottage," as they might in blue-blood Newport, R.I. It's a mansion. Set on 222 acres just north of Wilmington, Nemours has 77 rooms, seven ponds, a kids' playhouse the size of a large model home and enough gold leaf on the walls, ceilings and statuary to gild an entire line of death masks for King Tut. The French-style country estate, which typically gets 14,000 visitors a year, is in the middle of the first, and largest, phase of a restoration that could take another decade to complete.

RiverWest Marketing, 647 Ridgely Ave., Annapolis, will hold a free seminar, "7 Secrets of Successful Marketing," from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sept. 13. Information: 410-266-3600 or www.riverwestmarketing .com. DuPont honors Crosby Marketing The DuPont Co. has honored Crosby Marketing Communications for providing services and results that contributed to growing DuPont's business in 2006. Crosby was recognized for marketing communications created for DuPont Legal. Doctor joins medical center Dr. Thomas D. Lee has joined the staff of Anne Arundel Medical Center as a member of the ENTAA Care, which offers ear, nose, throat, asthma, allergy and audiology services.

Northwestern District officers responding about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to a report of a man shot in the 3400 block of Dupont Ave. in the city's Central Park Heights neighborhood found the victim lying in the street bleeding from several gunshot wounds to the upper body, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The man, whose identity was withheld pending notification of family members, was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to Sinai Hospital, where he died in the emergency room about 2 p.m., Moses said.

Despite a slight increase in attendance this year to more than 92,000 for the week, and another scintillating finish Sunday, the founding co-chairman of the McDonald's LPGA Championship openly questions the support the tournament is receiving from the corporate community and the state of Maryland. As a result, the long-term future of the event remaining in Harford County is up for debate. "I wouldn't say there's [an immediate] concern about the future of the tournament here - we have a couple of years on the contract - but we're definitely concerned that the numbers are going down and we're hoping to figure out ways for them to go back up," Frank Quinn said Sunday afternoon.