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Up to half of sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted disease by the time they are 25, yet many don't seek testing because it may be difficult, costly or embarrassing. Public health officials nationally and in particularly affected cities like Baltimore, however, say they've found a method that seems to address the major hurdles — a website that supplies free in-home testing kits for three of the most commonly reported STDs. "The highest prevalence is in young adults, and we knew we had to reach these kids," said Charlotte A. Gaydos, a professor of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones - potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe entrepreneur created a 3D model of a blind woman that allowed her to "see" herself for the first time. And the technique's potential to aid visual arts and science museums is a featured part of the three-day American Alliance of Museums conference in the Inner Harbor.

If the Black Eyed Susan were a race horse, it would be a sprinter. It makes one strong move, then fades quickly. The strong move occurs this weekend when the cocktail will be in demand at Pamlico Race Track, during both the running of the Black Eyed Susan Stakes on Friday and the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. Over these two days, about 25,000 servings of the libation, poured into commemorative glasses, will be sold at $8 apiece, track officials say. But as soon as Preakness weekend ends, so does the does the local thirst for the Susan.

It should've been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn't hear it. An ominous sort of history was made last week near Austin, Texas, but it seems to have largely escaped notice. There was some media coverage, yes, but less than, say, Lindsay Lohan's latest stint in rehab, certainly less than you'd think for something whose ramifications will likely shadow us for years. On May 2, you see, a group called Defense Distributed, led by law student and self-described anarchist Cody Wilson, accomplished what was apparently the first successful firing of a gun "printed" entirely by a 3-D printer.

WASHINGTON -- Russian newspapers do a rotten job covering women, Maxwell McCrohon was saying. And, the Western image aside, they're not all dowdy mopes in babushkas, staring at empty grocery shelves."

No more waiting in long lines to pick up tickets at theaters or sports arenas. Beginning in April, Ticketmaster-Online CitySearch Inc. will allow customers to print tickets ordered online. The tickets, bought via www- .ticketmaster.com, can be printed on any laser, inkjet or high-end dot matrix printer at home or work. No special software will be required. "This is an exciting way to make ticket buying more convenient," said Tom Stockham, executive vice president of ticketmaster.com. Printed on a standard sheet of paper, the tickets come with a bar code that specifies event information and seat location.

Susan Meller began collecting what she calls throwaway art in the 1970s. Passionate about old textiles, she went to farm sales and auctions to buy box lots of scraps and hopelessly damaged quilts. "I'd bring them home and put them in the dryer to get the dust out. I wouldn't wash them for fear they'd run, and then I'd spend hours with a razor liberating the pieces I liked and giving them a new life," said Meller over coffee recently.Before she knew it, Ms. Meller had a large selection of three generations of printed quilting pieces.

NEW YORK -- At the request of Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI, and with the concurrence of the New York Times, the Washington Post today is publishing the unaltered 35,000-word manifesto of the serial killer known as the Unabomber in the hope of ending his 17-year campaign of murder through the mails.The bomber offered last June to stop the killing, though not necessarily the property damage, if the text of the manifesto, calling for a revolution against the industrial-technological underpinnings of society, was published by one of the two newspapers within three months, and if three annual follow-up messages were printed.

Who hasn't cleaned out an old storage carton and discovered a crumbling newspaper folded in the bottom?Forget the news stories contained on the browning pulp pages. It's the ads for the $12 topcoats at Brager-Eisenberg's that claim attention.In this light, about 2,000 persons with a similar passion for ancient advertisements, old roadside signs, posters and penny post cards filed through an exhibition hall at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium this past weekend for the Baltimore Paper Show.

MOSCOW -- A unique Russian voice, its uncompromising tone familiar from long ago, yesterday joined the tumultuous debate going on here about the economic and political future of the Soviet Union.And though dispatched from the exiled writer's Vermont hideaway, the arguments of Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn fit surprisingly smoothly into the Moscow discussion.For the first time in nearly three decades, Mr. Solzhenitsyn, 72, a towering figure in 20th-century Russia, directly addressed the Soviet public on a current political topic through an official publication.

Three local marketing and print companies have recently joined forces to create a new full service marketing company. Full House Press Inc., Minuteman Press of Bel Air and 2K Marketing LLC have all merged their operations in two Bel Air locations. The new company, Full House/Minuteman Marketing & Print, will provide a full complement of marketing and print services to local and regional businesses. Headquartered at the Full House Press location at 230-B Gateway Drive in Bel Air, the company offers single to full color offset and digital printing, mailing services, design and finishing.

The page from an encyclopedia shows an ocean ring around a circle that is partitioned by a T-shape into three continents - Asia, Africa and Europe. The continents are populated by Noah's sons, from whom mankind descended after the flood, according to the story in the Bible. Something of a diagram, the design is a map derived by a Spanish bishop around the year 600 from the works of the ancient Greek astronomer-mathematician-geographer Ptolemy. It is also the first known map of the world to have taken advantage of a key technological advance: the printing press.

Charles Nelson Wells, a retired owner of a printing firm and a World War II veteran later honored for his service with a Congressional Gold Medal, died of a blood disorder Feb. 12 at Sinai Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Lochearn. Born in Baltimore and raised on Schroeder Street, he was the son of Charles Elliott Wells and Anna Nelson Wells. He was a 1944 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. As a young man he worked alongside his father as an apprentice at Watkins and Wells printers on West Lexington Street.

Organizers of the Maryland Conservative Action Network conference (Turning the Tides 2013) were profoundly disappointed that The Sun ran an attack on our conference and our speakers on the very morning of our conference ("The tide of Islamophobia," Jan. 12). You did a huge disservice to your readers by posting this polemic in a complete vacuum and without an opportunity for response from those, especially Pamela Geller, whose characters were impugned by a writer with an obvious ax to grind.

I read with interest the Baltimore Sun article about the New York-based Journal News publishing an on-line interactive map detailing the names and addresses of licensed gun owners in two New York counties, with a third county - Putnam County - balking at a freedom of information request to release that information with respect to its residents ("Gun owners, paper battle over right to bare names," Jan. 4). What a great idea! Let the criminals know exactly where all the privately owned guns are located so that they know just where to go to steal them.

Before threatening to shoot the employees at a Mount Vernon art supply store and stealing $335 in cash, the robbery suspect made a crucial mistake, police say: touching two newspaper boxes outside of the store. Kevin Younger, 50, is now facing federal robbery and gun charges after police traced the prints to him, an identification bolstered by witnesses who picked him out of photo lineups as the suspect, records show.  The robbery occurred on Sept. 27, 2011, in the first block of W. Chase St. at the Utrecht Art Supply store.

Ephemera. It sounds contagious. You've been exposed to it all your life. Your friends and neighbors have it too. Is it chronic?Chances are, after seeing "Graphic Americana: The Art and Technique of Printed Ephemera," an eye-catching and nostalgic exhibition at the Princeton University Library in Princeton, N.J., through Sept. 20, you'll succumb to the ephemerist's bug; taking out the trash will never be the same.Ephemera is printed paper and packaging not meant to last. It is yesterday's invitations, last year's calendar, business cards, cigar bands, advertisements, postcards, brochures, posters, matchbooks and other items that make good barbecue tinder or overflow your wastebasket.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Every day, with the blessing of U.S. officials, Iraqi government printing presses produce 4 million portraits of Saddam Hussein. Hussein is rendered in purple ink against a filigreed pink and blue background, in a pose reminiscent of George Washington. One difference is that he is depicted wearing a business suit and striped tie. The portraits, printed by the mint, are on Iraq's 250-dinar notes, probably the most widely circulated paper currency in Iraq. The reasons the United States has been forced to approve mass-produced portraits of this country's fugitive leader while offering a $25 million reward for his capture suggest how complicated the reconstruction of the country now seems.

The number of manufacturing jobs in Maryland seems to go in only one direction - down. The state lost 21,000 positions in the past five years. More than 40,000 in the past decade. Nearly 70,000 in the past two decades. But advocates think employment decline - driven by technology, consolidation, closures and offshoring - isn't inevitable. The nonprofit Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland is trying to organize employers and local officials to get the sector growing again. First step: reminding local officials that manufacturing, which employs 111,000 in the state directly and more indirectly, is not dead.

In a year where spring collections were dominated by the usual suspects - trends such as pastels, animal patterns and ethnic prints - superior silhouettes, fine fabrics and choice of color helped designers stand out from the masses. Top designers such as Diane von Furstenberg, Christian Siriano, Tracy Reese, Vera Wang and Badgley Mischka focused on finishing touches as opposed to the flash. As a result, collections appeared to be cleaner and more polished than in some years, giving them a timeless appeal.