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FIRE* Union Bridge: Union Bridge responded to a transformer explosion at Broadway and Farquhar streets at 10:04 a.m. Sunday. They were out for 20 minutes.

George Farquhar ended his 1707 comedy, The Beaux' Stratagem, with a dance, but just about everything in director Michael Kahn's sprightly production at Washington's Shakespeare Theatre seems to dance -- especially the scenery. 'THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM' / / Through Dec. 31 / / Shakespeare Theatre, 450 7th St. N.W., Washington / / 877-487-8849 or shakespearetheatre.org

PoliceUnion Bridge: A resident of South Farquhar Street told police that someone stole a garden utility cart from her yard, hauling it away in a pickup truck about 8: 20 p.m. Wednesday. The loss was estimated at $100.Pub Date: 10/11/96

The extent to which athletically based financial aid is offered by some members of Baltimore's private school league is the central issue of consideration in a proposed football merger between the Washington-based Interscholastic Athletic Conference and the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, according to IAC president Tom Farquhar. "The idea that there would be some scholarships based purely on a student's athletic ability is an approach that's different from the approach that we've taken," said Farquhar, who is head of Bullis School of Montgomery County in Potomac.

George Farquhar ended his 1707 comedy, The Beaux' Stratagem, with a dance, but just about everything in director Michael Kahn's sprightly production at Washington's Shakespeare Theatre seems to dance -- especially the scenery. 'THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM' / / Through Dec. 31 / / Shakespeare Theatre, 450 7th St. N.W., Washington / / 877-487-8849 or shakespearetheatre.org

The director of NASA's $159 million Contour mission says there is no more than a "one in 10,000" chance that his team will recover the spacecraft, which went silent Aug. 15, six weeks into a four-year journey to study comets. Controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory near Laurel lost contact with the spacecraft soon after it fired its solid-fuel motor last week to rocket out of Earth orbit toward an encounter with Comet Encke planned for next year. Misson Director Robert W. Farquhar said the spacecraft's motor apparently worked perfectly for 48 seconds of the planned 50-second burn.

Imagine throwing out three runners in a single, sublime baseball moment.Now imagine a triple play while the ball, the runners, the bases and the stadium are all in outer space, each moving in its own peculiar orbit.That's pretty much what Robert Farquhar has promised for NASA's $154 million Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) mission, scheduled to visit three comets after a July 2002 launch.The effervescent mission designer at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab plans to rocket CONTOUR into a series of loops tens of millions of miles out in space, each with a snap-the-whip boost from Earth's gravity into the next loop.

Contact with the Maryland-built NEAR spacecraft was lost late yesterday. The problem began shortly after the start of what was to have been a 20-minute rocket burn intended to speed NEAR toward a Jan. 10 rendezvous with the asteroid Eros."

Charles K. BerryPost office supervisorCharles K. Berry, a retired supervisor at the main post office in Baltimore, died Saturday of cancer at the Manor Care Towson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.Services for Mr. Berry, who was 77 and lived on De Soto Road in the city, will be at 8 tonight at the Hubbard Funeral Home, 4107 Wilkens Ave.He retired 20 years ago after working 35 years for the U.S. Postal Service.Born in Baltimore, he was a 1933 graduate of Polytechnic Institute.He was a member of the Army's 29th Division during World War II. He was wounded in Europe and awarded a Purple Heart.

The extent to which athletically based financial aid is offered by some members of Baltimore's private school league is the central issue of consideration in a proposed football merger between the Washington-based Interscholastic Athletic Conference and the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, according to IAC president Tom Farquhar. "The idea that there would be some scholarships based purely on a student's athletic ability is an approach that's different from the approach that we've taken," said Farquhar, who is head of Bullis School of Montgomery County in Potomac.

The director of NASA's $159 million Contour mission says there is no more than a "one in 10,000" chance that his team will recover the spacecraft, which went silent Aug. 15, six weeks into a four-year journey to study comets. Controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory near Laurel lost contact with the spacecraft soon after it fired its solid-fuel motor last week to rocket out of Earth orbit toward an encounter with Comet Encke planned for next year. Misson Director Robert W. Farquhar said the spacecraft's motor apparently worked perfectly for 48 seconds of the planned 50-second burn.

When Cindy Olsen was in her 30s and single, she thought she just wasn't going to get married. Brooke Farquhar, a bachelor at 40, also "wrote off" the idea of finding a spouse. Both were happy with their careers, close families and great friends, and Brooke says, "I'd rather not have [a marriage] than settle." Then, in July 2001, the two met while Cindy, an assistant interior decorator, and Brooke, who installs home theaters and other equipment with Starr Systems Design, were working on the same condominium in Cross Keys.

IT WAS TO BE a week of fun and learning in Wyoming for 55 Montgomery County pupils. It turned into a 1,765-mile bus trip through the American heartland. The youngsters, seventh- and eighth-graders at William H. Farquhar Middle School in Olney, were part of an exchange program with the lone middle school in Douglas, a southeast Wyoming cattle town rich in Western lore. The Farquhar kids and their six chaperones flew west Sept. 9 and settled in with host families. They were to tour Yellowstone National Park and other attractions, but there was learning involved.

NEAR is alive. The plucky little Maryland-built spacecraft that has been orbiting the asteroid Eros for the past year was supposed to have expired Monday on a kamikaze photography mission to the asteroid's surface. But against the odds, it has survived its impact with the surface. And it has called home. "Not only did the spacecraft survive, it's remained intact. We are still in communication with it," Jay Bergstrahl, NASA's acting director for solar system exploration, said yesterday.

FiresUnion Bridge: Firefighters responded at 7: 51 a.m. Sunday to a hazardous condition in the 200 block of Hoff Road. Units were out 75 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters from Taneytown, Union Bridge and Harney responded at 1: 56 p.m. Saturday to a house fire in the 5900 block of Keysville Road. Units were out 45 minutes.Union Bridge: Firefighters from Union Bridge and New Windsor responded at 8: 50 a.m. Saturday to a carbon monoxide alarm in the first block of Farquhar St. Units were out 26 minutes.

LOS ANGELES -- Was it only 10 months ago that UPN was being denounced by African-American groups over its then-new sitcom, "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer"?Talk about turnaround. The network is now the home of some of the best black talent in Hollywood and proud of it.UPN yesterday showcased its African-American programming for television critics gathered here for the summer press tour, and it was an impressive sight.After the NAACP threat to sue the four major networks over the fact that none of their 27 new fall series will have a leading character who is black, it was a chance to hear what black actors, writers and producers have to say about the sociology of the images they create.

Contact with the Maryland-built NEAR spacecraft was lost late yesterday. The problem began shortly after the start of what was to have been a 20-minute rocket burn intended to speed NEAR toward a Jan. 10 rendezvous with the asteroid Eros."

Imagine throwing out three runners in a single, sublime baseball moment.Now imagine a triple play while the ball, the runners, the bases and the stadium are all in outer space, each moving in its own peculiar orbit.That's pretty much what Robert Farquhar has promised for NASA's $154 million Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) mission, scheduled to visit three comets after a July 2002 launch.The effervescent mission designer at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab plans to rocket CONTOUR into a series of loops tens of millions of miles out in space, each with a snap-the-whip boost from Earth's gravity into the next loop.