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A body the likes of Stacy Keibler's is just a hop, lunge and a kick away -- or so says Self magazine. The fitness monthly features Keibler prominently in the June issue, splashed leggily over a multi-page spread headlined "Hot Like Stacy. " "Those toned legs, sleek abs, firm booty," Self says. "Our latest girl crush is Stacy Keibler, who has one amazing body. Snag her 18-minute workout and you'll be just as smokin'. "  We will? Forgive our doubts that 18 minutes a day -- even 18 hours a week -- would get the average girl anywhere close to Keibler-dom.

Century High School in Sykesville was one of 23 Maryland high schools - and the only school in Carroll County - to earn a spot on Newsweek magazine's annual ranking of "America's Best High Schools" The listing, released this week, placed Century High as the No. 20 high school in Maryland, and ranked No. 854 in the country. The Newsweek survey ranked what it considers the "best" 1,000 public high schools in the nation. The list was based on six components provided by school administrators - graduation rate (25 percent)

Presented by the Anne Arundel County Department of Health's Learn to Live program, the newsletter Building Blocks discusses ADHD in young children and provides tips and resources to help child care providers and parents. Free copies of HIM (Health Ideas for Men) magazine are available at the Department of Health, J. Howard Beard Health Services Building, 3 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis. The magazine features articles on exercises that encourage fitness, eating healthy while dining out, quitting smoking and preventing skin cancer.

A body the likes of Stacy Keibler's is just a hop, lunge and a kick away -- or so says Self magazine. The fitness monthly features Keibler prominently in the June issue, splashed leggily over a multi-page spread headlined "Hot Like Stacy. " "Those toned legs, sleek abs, firm booty," Self says. "Our latest girl crush is Stacy Keibler, who has one amazing body. Snag her 18-minute workout and you'll be just as smokin'. "  We will? Forgive our doubts that 18 minutes a day -- even 18 hours a week -- would get the average girl anywhere close to Keibler-dom.

Vincent Frank Bova, a retired printer and longtime Cheverly resident, died Dec. 9 of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Pensacola, Fla. He was 97. Mr. Bova was born and raised in South Baltimore, one of 11 children of Sicilian immigrants. He attended city public schools. As a very young man, he went to work at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point shipyard, building and repairing the hulls of vessels. He later became a printer and worked for many years for National Geographic magazine in Washington before retiring in the late 1960s.

If Stanley McChrystal has any kind of mordant humor, surely the song playing in his head these days is that old tune by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, the one about "the thrill that'll get-cha when you get your pict-cha on the cover of the Rolling Stone." That's actually Lady Gaga on the current cover, nearly naked but for an undergarment that gives "bullet bra" a whole new meaning. But somehow McChrystal has managed to upstage her even though he only makes an oblique appearance in the vicinity of her left knee, in a teaser headline, "Obama's General: Why he's losing the war."

Baltimore's Foreign Trade Zone has been ranked the fourth best port-related foreign trade zone in the world by fDi Magazine, which is produced by The Financial Times. The magazine analyzed 700 economic zones and — using criteria such as economic potential, promotional strategy, facilities and transportation — ranked Baltimore fourth under the "Best Port Zone" category for 2010-2011, following the zones of Shanghai, Tangier, Morocco and Jacksonville, Fla. Of the remaining U.S. port zones on the top 10 list, the Foreign Trade Zone of Los Angeles ranked eighth.

Great Expeditions is a bimonthly publication that describes trips not often found in the brochures at a travel agent's office.The magazine has tips, such as the autumn issue's advisory that some hotels in Baja California already are booked for the July 11 solar eclipse next year. Destination articles include Benin in Africa, Japan, southern Mexico, Chile, Galapagos Islands and Israel. The magazine is published in Canada, and a six-issue subscription costs $18. For a free sample issue, write Box 8000-411, Sumas, Wash.

In today's Sun you'll find a new, comprehensive TV magazine that offers a new grid format, listings geared to your cable system, and expanded listings for sports, movies and children's programs.There are six editions of the magazine: one statewide, one for Baltimore and Baltimore County, and one each for Anne Arundel, Howard, Carroll and Harford counties. (If you have received the wrong edition for your area, call 539-1280, or 1-800-829-8000.)Please let us know how you like the new magazine by calling Sundial.

In an effort to better accommodate advertisers, Warfield's magazine will publish twice a month instead of monthly beginning next week."In recent years, advertisers have begun to insist on added value in their advertising vehicles. . . . By going biweekly, the opportunities for our advertisers expand dramatically," said Edwin Warfield 4th, publisher of Warfield's and the Daily Record.Warfield's, established five years ago, is a glossy magazine that features profiles of Maryland business leaders and coverage of real estate and other local financial issues.

Pigtown resident Daryl Landy believes he's one of a growing number of Americans striving for better, not bigger, living quarters, and last week he launched a new online magazine devoted to living, working and playing in small spaces. Rohous Magazine went live Wednesday. The electronic magazine, available on iPads and the Internet by subscription, will highlight home furnishings, products, decor and do-it-yourself projects. It will feature a different city each month (the first issue focuses on Baltimore)

I'm not anti-attachment parenting by any means. I'm what-works-for-my-family-works-for-us-and-what-works-for-you-works-for-you, a philosophy that is flexible but has way too many hyphens. It happens that attachment parenting wasn't something that worked for my family. I was interested in the idea of babywearing, but I had back issues even before I got pregnant, and parenthood hasn't made them any better. Co-sleeping wasn't something I was particularly interested in for a number of reasons.

I was just beginning my career at The Sun when the paper (and, yes, it was just a paper then) marked its 150th anniversary. Everything seemed startlingly new to me, and the festivities around May 17, 1987, were a heady part of that. Twenty-five years later, I'm honored to be running the newsroom as we turn 175. Readers may not know it, but we're older than The New York Times , The Washington Post and The Boston Globe . Leafing through the magazine published to commemorate the 150th, I was struck by how many companies that advertised in it no longer exist in the Baltimore area.

Readers of a major travel magazine ranked Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport sixth out of the 22 largest U.S. airports for customer service and convenience. Travel + Leisure graded airports in seven categories: flight delays; design; amenities; food and drink; check-in and security; service; and transportation and location. Minneapolis was rated No. 1, followed by Charlotte, N.C.; Detroit, Orlando, Fla.; and San Francisco. Of BWI, the magazine said: "Fly through Baltimore, and you stand one of the best chances that your flight will take off and not be canceled.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the longtime president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been recognized as one of the most influential leaders in the world. Hrabowski will join a renowned crowd of dignitaries, foreign heads of state, celebrities, activists and other reformers on Time magazine's 2012 Top 100 Most Influential People, due to be released Wednesday.

In the more than 45 years since the Prime Rib opened, precious little has changed at the iconic midtown restaurant. Walking in is like stepping into a bygone era: Well-dressed diners carve into steaks the size of dinner plates while waiters in suits top off their wine glasses. The walls are black with gold trim; on them hang paintings, posters and framed covers of Vogue from the early 1930s. And who could miss that swinging '60s leopard print carpet? The Prime Rib has been around long enough to see its style fall in and out of fashion.

When Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff first saw the old stone farmhouse in northern Baltimore County, it had holes in the walls and raccoons in the basement. But it stood in the middle of 85 acres of farmland, with cows grazing in the distance and sweeping views of rolling countryside all around. That's what convinced them to buy it as a second home. "We always wanted a place in Maryland that reminded us of our trips to France and Italy," Mazaroff said. "This was a little bit of Italy in Baltimore County.

Brady Anderson is carving a small block of time out of his packed training schedule to demonstrate the true purpose of the athletic life, which is not about money or women or fame or even fun. It's about beating you. The field of play — in this case — is a pingpong table in the middle of the Orioles' spring clubhouse at the Ed Smith Stadium Complex, where the team is preparing — with Anderson's help — for the 2012 baseball season....