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By Edward Gunts | October 24, 2009
For decades, medical students have been taught to treat the "standard" or "typical" patient, as if everyone reacts the same way to an illness or disease. But with the sequencing of the human genome, some medical educators have begun to adopt the view that there is no such thing as a "standard" patient and that everyone should be considered an individual with unique characteristics that influence his or her health, from age and genetic structure to their environment and place in society.
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By Larry Carson | August 16, 2009
Four decades ago, when Columbia pioneer Andrea Gruhl worked part-time at what was then called the Frederick Road Library in Ellicott City, then-county commissioner Charles E. Miller's cattle grazed right outside the small red brick and glass building, she said. "I was sure I was the only librarian in the whole United States who had that view, and now we're going back to that," she said, delighted. Gruhl was among about 35 people who Monday night attended the first of two meetings at what is now called the Charles E. Miller library to find out more about the mega-replacement building set to rise next year just behind the current, outmoded library.
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By Julie Bykowicz | July 3, 2009
With six months to go before moving into their new $15.5 million building on the Fallsway, Health Care for the Homeless officials gave Mayor Sheila Dixon a hard-hat tour Thursday. The three-story building with a partial green roof is walking distance from Our Daily Bread and the city's planned 148-bed emergency shelter and housing resource center. Dixon said having homeless services in one area "maximizes the support people need to get back on their feet." Jeff Singer, president and chief executive officer of Health Care for the Homeless, said the buildings' proximity to one another will "promote synergy" because the providers can walk people from one place to the next and save on transportation.
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By Hanah Cho | June 30, 2009
The first wave of Legg Mason employees showed up at new Harbor East headquarters Monday, representing a new start for the struggling money manager while also creating a potential boon for businesses at the waterfront neighborhood. At the same time, Legg's relocation will leave a big dent in the old central business district. The huge vacancy at 100 Light St., where Legg occupied 22 of the 35 floors, has not been filled. For surrounding businesses at Legg's former home, the loss means more bad news during trying economic times.
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By Susan Gvozdas | March 8, 2009
For the parents of developmentally disabled adults, Opportunity Builders Inc. has been a place for their children to make friends, learn life skills and be productive. The parents of children with mental retardation, autism and other disabilities, volunteered and donated money to keep the nonprofit going for the past 47 years, even rescuing it from closure in 1986 when the doors were padlocked because of unpaid bills. Tomorrow, they get to celebrate a hard-fought milestone for OBI - the grand opening of its own 41,000-square-foot headquarters on 14.5 acres.
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November 21, 2008
Ensure UB building is part of city's life As Tuesday's Baltimore Sun announced, the University of Baltimore School of Law has selected a design for its new building ("A bright new face for UB law school," Nov. 18). The city should congratulate the university and the law school for making such an exciting and progressive selection. But now the hard work begins. It would be very easy to make this building into an inaccessible bunker. The site is difficult and detached. It is surrounded by fast surface traffic, an exit ramp from Interstate 83 and the busy intersection of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue.
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By Susan Gvozdas | September 7, 2008
Archbishop Spalding High School has started an $8.2 million expansion to handle increased enrollment and attract students in the highly competitive private school market, school officials said. The Catholic school in Severn will lay the foundation for a new arts and technology center in October. This winter, work will begin on a new stadium. Both should be ready by next fall, said Michael Murphy, president and chief executive officer of Spalding. In the past six years, enrollment has grown from 950 students to 1,180.
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By Edward Gunts | August 24, 2008
The drum-shaped building near the intersection of North and Mount Royal avenues has a large opening on its west side that allows people on the sidewalk to look up and see a landscaped courtyard deep inside, two levels above the street. It has a horizontal opening on the south side that looks like a giant mail slot. The glass panes around the exterior aren't always in the same plane from floor to floor and change in color as one moves around the building. Did the contractor run out of the same color glass and decide to improvise partway through construction?
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By Ken Murray | June 19, 2008
Towson University has scrapped plans to renovate 32-year-old Towson Center and instead wants to build a $45.4 million multi-use arena that could open by July 2011. As decisions go, this switch was easy. "Once the architects started looking at it, they brought us the proposition that a new building would be a much better building in terms of what we'd get, and it'd also be a little less expensive than renovating," said James P. Sheehan, vice president for administration and finance at Towson.
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By Larry Carson | May 16, 2008
After 18 months in temporary quarters, staff and residents of the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center are set to move into their new $5 million building that replaces the nonprofit's cramped former quarters on the same site. "It's a very busy time, and we'll all be quite relieved when we're into the building," said Andrea Ingram, Grassroots' director. She's been rushing from one crucial last-minute inspection to another, while coordinating delivery of furniture and planning for a celebratory ribbon-cutting today.