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JEANETTE ENGEL is trying to give away free money. But she has few takers.Ms. Engel is director of compensation and retirement for PRC Inc., a unit of Towson-based Black & Decker Corp., and she's worried because 40 percent of the company's employees haven't enrolled in its 401(k) plan.The company matches each dollar an employee invests up to $100, then 50 cents on the dollar up to 3 percent of one's salary. Thereafter, PRC kicks in 25 cents for up to 6 percent. But Ms. Engel says many of her co-workers aren't buying.

Pam Engel tried something new with her biology students last year at Glen Burnie High School. Instead of talking about how diseases and traits are passed on through family members, she teamed up with a doctor to help students create their own family trees. Students had to list three generations and include medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, along with causes of death. Then they had to act as genetics counselors and predict which conditions might be passed on in their families.

Repeat after me: "I am thankful for my urologic health. And if my tender parts are ever stricken, I will thank my lucky stars that I am living in the late 20th century."If you cannot say these things, you must make an appointment to visit the William P. Didusch Museum of the American Urological Association, on North Charles Street in Baltimore.It will teach you a lesson."The 'good old days' were rough," said the museum's curator, Dr. Rainer M. Engel, a practicing urologist who just completed a four-year renovation of the museum, which opened in 1972.

The Francis Scott Key baseball team improved to 5-0 on the season with a 16-6 win over Catoctin in a game that ended after six innings because of the 10-run rule yesterday afternoon.The Eagles pounded 14 hits off three Catoctin pitchers while Key pitcher John Engel went the distance, allowing four earned runs on seven hits to improve his record to 2-0.For the second straight day, the Eagles jumped out to a 5-0 lead after one inning.Monday, Key had to hold on to beat North Hagerstown, 5-3.Yesterday, they added four more in the second to go up, 9-0, against Catoctin (0-5)

A Taneytown woman accused of leaving her 18-month-old daughter alone at home Tuesday night while she went to get beer had her bond reduced from $25,000 to $2,500 during a bail review hearing before District Judge Donald M. Smith yesterday.Terri Lynn Manolovich, 34, of the 100 block of E. Baltimore St. was charged with child abuse, reckless endangerment of a child, confining an unattended child, disorderly conduct and failure to obey the lawful order of a police officer.Officer Edward Engel of the Taneytown police force said the woman was a passenger in an automobile he stopped for a traffic violation at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday.

WHEN PEGGY Engel and her family head to a ballpark, they know where to find the good stuff, the savory eats and the architectural attractions.In Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards, they head to the Eutaw Street promenade beyond the right-field fence. There Engel's husband, Bruce Adams, gets in line for a pit-beef sandwich from Boog Powell's stand.Meanwhile, her kids, 10-year-old Emily and 7-year-old Hugh, make a temporary stop at the markers embedded in the walkway. The markers indicate where the longest home runs have landed.

Mildred T. Engel, 82, Hutzler's store supervisor Mildred T. Engel, a homemaker and former department store supervisor, died Sunday at Westminster Asbury Manor in Bradenton, Fla., from complications of Alzheimer's disease. The former longtime Towson resident was 82. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mrs. Engel was supervisor of Hutzler's infant department at the company's Westview store. Mildred Timanos was born and raised in the Pimlico section of Baltimore and graduated from Forest Park High School.

On defense, Francis Scott Key guard/forward Paul Coale never rests.Coale is a tireless worker who always guards the opponent's top scorer. Coale views shutting down the player as a challenge and a vital part of the Francis Scott Key basketball team."

America's new passion for the comfortable and familiar is revitalizing scores of small, family-owned food businesses across the country, according to the author of a book showcasing the tiny enterprises."

TRADITIONALLY, middle age for women has been about menopause, hot flashes and hormones. But Vickii Engel Thomas, a Westminster massage therapist and counselor, is hoping to move past those perceptions to an exploration of emotions and ideals in "The Journey of Midlife," a three-session program she's facilitating for Carroll County General Hospital. "This is a time of looking at and reframing what is this middle transition," said Engel, adding that most middle-age women are experiencing a change in roles from caring for others to caring for themselves.