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Her friends sometimes treat her like an evangelist with no impulse control. It's probably because she can't keep quiet when she spies a child seat improperly installed, or ill-fitting, or wrong for a child's age or size. But Brooke Edwards Greenbaum has to live with herself, too. Her friends sympathize, but they don't quite understand. She hopes they never have to. Last year, Greenbaum was a passenger in a car that crashed and left four people dead, including her father. Two people survived that accident: Greenbaum and her 15-month-old daughter Lauren, who was strapped into a child seat.

Black & Decker Corp.'s stock price fell 7.2 percent yesterday, after a Salomon Smith Barney analyst downgraded his rating on the company to "neutral" based on information the Towson-based toolmaker said is incorrect. Stephen Kim, an analyst at Smith Barney in New York, said in a research report that he is downgrading his "outperform" rating on Black & Decker's stock "due to the potential for a heightened competitive environment ... over the next year." The report said industry sources have indicated that retailers Home Depot Inc. and Lowe's Cos. Inc. have each asked Stanley Works, a Connecticut-based hand tools manufacturer, to develop a line of power tools, as well as participate in the lock sets category.

YOU WOULD think that a man who saved three people's lives, at considerable risk to his own, would be recognized as a hero. But his story is politically incorrect, so it has received virtually no media attention and his name remains unknown.It all started when a gunman, Richard Gable Stevens, 21, who intended to kill himself and others, took three hostages at a Santa Clara, Calif., gun club with a semiautomatic rifle that he had rented there. His plan was thwarted when an employee of the shooting range shot him twice with a handgun, freeing the hostages.

Dear Mr. Azrael:I recently found out that the measurements made in my house in 1979 were larger than they really were by a considerable amount.Because of it, the square footage of the house has been listed as much larger than my actual square footage, and I didn't realize this.How do I ask that my house be re-measured for assessment purposes?Krumbein Simeon, BaltimoreDear Mr. Simeon:Each county in Maryland, and Baltimore City, assesses real property in a three-year cycle.In Baltimore, the city is divided into three areas.

A Randallstown man who tried to join the Maryland State Police is suing Howard County officials because, he claims, they illegally released incorrect juvenile arrest information to state police recruiters.In a lawsuit filed last week, Clayton M. Queen says Howard County police told state police recruiters that Queen allegedly committed drug-selling offenses in 1989, when he was a juvenile.That information was incorrect -- Queen has no criminal record as an adult or juvenile, he says -- and should not have been released under Maryland law.Howard County officials agreed.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has begun attempting to show that its scholarship athletes had a graduation rate of more than 37 percent among those who entered as freshmen in 1991 rather than the 5 percent published in a nationwide study by the NCAA.The Princess Anne school plans to provide corrected data to the NCAA, athletic director Hallie Gregory said yesterday.In submitting data for the annual NCAA study, the university listed the total number of athletes enrolled at the school instead of the number of athletes who entered as freshmen in 1991.

A Westminster man, who was arrested Friday on charges of throwing a beer can at his girlfriend, soon learned that the assault charge was the least of his problems.When Westminster police took Steven A. Richardson, 24, to headquarters for processing, a routine background check showed an outstanding Virginia fugitive warrant against him."I've never been to Virginia in my life" is the story Richardson repeated throughout his five-day ordeal, proclaiming his innocence. Part of his troubles ended yesterday after Virginia authorities visited Westminster and confirmed he was not the man they sought.

An article in Saturday editions about Howard County drug arrests incorrectly stated when drugs were bought by undercover detectives. The drugs were purchased during an eight-month investigation.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 6/08/98

You've got to respect Bill Maher's willingness to blast through the pious cant that passes for political discourse in Hollywood, though the host of "Politically Incorrect" fails at that as often as he succeeds.To judge by a profile of him in the April US magazine, Maher is an easier guy to respect than to like. He comes across as smart but prickly, talented but tough on the people who work for him (he goes through writers "at a record clip," according to author Chris Mundy).Maher is candid about his desperate need to succeed, fueled by his fear of being left behind by the comedians with whom he launched his career, such as Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser.

A headline in yesterday's editions incorrectly identified a country involved in an alleged plot to export missile parts illegally. The country is Iran.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 3/05/98