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A pair of highway accidents -- including an overturned tanker truck and a separate crash that left a White Marsh man trapped beneath tons of metal in his truck-mounted crane -- snared motorists in traffic yesterday along Interstate 95 in Baltimore and Howard counties.In the worst of the two accidents, mid-morning traffic on southbound I-95 was backed up about two hours, from White Marsh to Mountain Road about eight miles away in Harford County.A crane careened off I-95 north of the Baltimore Beltway and skidded to a stop on its side, requiring rescuers to gingerly lift the heavy rig while they cut the driver free from the wreckage.

City Hall unloaded hospitals, college, jails, schools, hopes to ditch courts, and will take over foreign policy instead.Twenty died when a Marine Corps plane above the speed limit and below the altitude limit cut a ski lift cable not on the map. Nobody was at fault.Monica is sorry for what happened, not for what she did.Whoever thought they would live to see Willie Don boosting Kweisi for mayor?Pub Date: 3/08/99

Language can be used to lift up, diminishIn reference to the Sept. 24 article in The Sun in Howard, "Help for the disabled coming through," I have to object to the language used by staff writer Diana Sugg.Throughout the article, she defines people by their disabilities. It is infuriating. I was taught the most valuable English lessons that I ever learned by a man who used a wheelchair. I heard a funny joke from a young woman who is mental retarded. Once, I loved a young man who had schizophrenia and I am the daughter of a brilliant computer nerd who is blind.

THEY'LL BRING back a generation tonight.It's officially billed as a reunion of yesteryear's sainted Baltimore Colts, those Sudden Death immortals who stunned an entire country by grabbing pro football's championship eight minutes and 15 seconds after regulation time had run out in the dreamy twilight of a howling Yankee Stadium.But it's also a reunion of those Baltimoreans of a certain generation who have memories of a time, the winter of '58, and a state of mind, the city's historic mass inferiority complex, and names that started to lift us out of it: Unitas somehow finding Berry in the gathering gloom, and Spats giving a hip and taking it away, and Marchetti and Donovan and Big Daddy meeting at the quarterback, and Ameche the Horse charging into the end zone through a hole as wide as the New York subway system.

The annual spawning run of shad and herring has ended on the Susquehanna River, and the fish lifts at Conowingo Dam recorded transport upriver of 103,945 American shad, a 70 percent increase over the record set in 1995.The east lift at Conowingo operated for 58 days and passed 90,071 American shad, 242,900 blue-back herring, 1,015 striped bass and 384,400 others, mostly gizzard shad.The average daily catch was 1,568, but during the peaks of the run on May 4, 9 and 18, catches ranged from 6,395 to 6,725.

I wear only black or white, and I stay with suits with slim pants and skirts. When my husband grumbles about my lack of interest in color, I point out that minimalism costs less. But now, with all the color in the stores, I'm tempted to buy a coat that will surprise him while giving a lift to my spring wardrobe.What would be the best choice?The most functional coat is an easy-fitting seven-eighths. This length is the right proportion for pants and long or short skirts. The easy fit allows it to go comfortably over jackets, dresses or tops.

TOKYO -- In a move that's seen likely to unshackle its domestic oil industry, Japan is poised to lift the stickiest hurdle its refiners face -- a ban on oil exports.Japan's Petroleum Council, an advisory body of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is expected to endorse a proposal later this month to lift the ban on exports of oil products. The lifting of the ban, which was passed over when the country completed the deregulation of the oil industry, could come as early as September.

Mary Anne Kirsch scored 15 as host Loyola (8-15, 5-6) topped Siena, 64-54, in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball game yesterday.The Greyhounds moved to within one-half game of the third-place Saints (11-13, 6-6). Jina Mosley recorded her first career double-double with 11 points and a career-best 11 rebounds.Pub Date: 2/17/97

Eric Davis lifts his teammates' spirits just by coming to the park and putting on his uniform. Imagine his impact when he finally plays for the Orioles again."

At least 200 volunteers and residents in Harwood used paintbrushes and hammers yesterday to resurrect the spirit of the North Baltimore neighborhood numbed by neglect and drugs."

Joe Glos had two goals and an assist as visiting No. 8 Perry Hall upset No. 4 Calvert Hall, 5-2, in boys soccer Monday. The Gators (6-3) held a 3-1 lead at the half. Glos scored the opening goal. Pete Caringi had a goal and an assist for the Cardinals (6-3), whose winning streak ended at four. Nial Krach had 12 saves for Calvert Hall, two more than Perry Hall's Zach Miller. Field hockey No. 2 Garrison Forest 3, Roland Park 1: : Cody Magness scored twice to power the host Grizzlies (10-1-2)

The sailboat called Windward wouldn't be going aground, in a good way, for another hour yet, but Russ Ward was happy to wait. Whenever the time came, he'd be watching as his prized 48-footer left the chilly waters of Back Creek for the high-and-dry. "I want to be here if you drop it," he told the dock master at Bert Jabin's Yacht Yard in Annapolis. Ward was joking. He actually felt relaxed. For one thing, his baby is insured to the tune of $500,000. More to the point, he has faith in the men who'd soon hoist, spray and move the boat across the yard before nestling it into an above-ground wintertime berth.

BEIJING - Natalie Woolfolk's knees were steady, her arms straight and her smile big as the room. Above her head, she proudly hoisted a lifetime of training and her Olympic dreams - not to mention more than 250 pounds of weights. But she also lifted high the dreams of her fiance, a fellow weightlifter who learned just one day before the opening ceremony that he wouldn't be competing at these Games. There'd be no gold medal for Woolfolk, an Arnold native and Broadneck High graduate, but at that moment, it didn't really matter.

Lift. Grunt. Clang. Lift. Grunt. Clang. So it goes, day after day, week after week in the world of Natalie Woolfolk, Olympic weightlifter. Her life revolves around the sight of heaving muscles and the sound of heavy metal. Beijing beckons next month, and Woolfolk, a 24-year-old Marylander and U.S.-record holder, is heeding the call. Her sights are set on the Games. Woolfolk is getting married this fall, but the only China pattern in her thoughts has five interlocking circles. "She's totally focused," said her sister Haley DiBlasi, of Eldersburg.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, theaters, hotels and retail stores. The proposal would substantially update and rewrite federal standards for enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark civil rights law passed with bipartisan support in 1990. The new rules would set more stringent requirements in many areas and address some issues for the first time, in an effort to meet the needs of an aging population and growing numbers of disabled war veterans.

The LPGA doesn't keep records for the highest temperatures in major championships, but yesterday's third round at Bulle Rock in Havre de Grace was among the hottest many remembered playing. The on-course thermometer reached 100.4 degrees, and the heat index was 10 degrees hotter. Many spectators, and at least one caddie, were treated by local paramedics for heat-related problems. According to Harford County police on the scene, "dozens" were treated for heat exhaustion, with at least four people taken to local hospitals.

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Defying protests by secular Turks, lawmakers voted yesterday to amend the constitution to allow women to wear Islamic head scarves at universities. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a self-described conservative democrat who leads a party that has its roots in political Islam, had described the ban as an obstacle to young women's seeking an education. After scoring a solid win in parliamentary elections last summer, his AK party had pledged to work to lift the long-standing restrictions.

"He's come in and given us a tremendous lift, and he's definitely making it happen." Tony La Russa St. Louis Cardinals manager, on Rick Ankiel (above), the former pitcher who has hit six home runs in 19 games during his comeback as an outfielder "It is going to be rough for a few days. Now we'll go back to work on winning a state championship." Tom Knotts High school football coach for Charlotte (N.C.) Independence, whose record 109-game winning streak came to an end Saturday with a 41-34 overtime loss to Cincinnati Elder

Zowie! Now this is winter! We might see lows in single digits this morning, the coldest in years. And no decent snow yet. Marie Skane in Catonsville asks, "Is there any validity to the saying, `It's too cold to snow'?" Sometimes. The colder the air, the less moisture it can hold, or drop as snow. But if winds or mountains provide some lift, even cold, dry air will rise, cool even more, and squeeze out some snow. The biggest snows fall from moist air that's 15 degrees or warmer.

In only his second season in wrestling, Parkville's Yousef Mohamed, a 171-pound senior, is 27-0 with 24 pins, a technical fall, a major decision and a forfeit. Mohamed, 18, gained a measure of revenge with a 56-second pin of Milford Mill's Charles Blue in the finals of the Overlea tournament, as Blue had eliminated Mohamed from last year's Baltimore County tournament with a pin in 2:28. Playing football for the first time this past fall, the 6-foot Mohamed made 15 sacks as a defensive end. He was voted to the coaches' All-Baltimore County football team.