Remedy

You end your editorial on the Buffett Rule ("The Buffett Rule backlash," April 13) with the question, "Where will the $50 billion come from to balance the budget, if not from this minimum tax plan?" Here's the answer: From less spending! George B. Wroe, Glyndon

Local resident Maura Schmidt McCarthy is opening a new wellness office, Remedy Wellness. Remedy Wellness is a new wellness office that offers an environment like no other in Harford County. It is an earth-friendly, toxin-free, gorgeous space that offers customized massages and skincare. McCarthy and her team take customer service to a whole new level in their comfortable, quiet space, allowing true healing to begin. Wellness grand opening is Memorial Day Weekend offering champagne and lite fare and free seated massage sessions (must call or email to schedule)

Q. I am desperate for a remedy for canker sores. My mouth is just full of them and they are so painful I am having trouble eating. My doctor prescribed Aphthasol, but it didn't help. My dentist has offered antibiotics and strong steroids, but nothing has worked.A. Physicians don't know what causes canker sores (aphthous ulcers), but a deficiency of folic acid, vitamin B-12 and iron may contribute. Prescription treatments are not always effective.We recently heard from D.W. in Garland, Texas, whose mother was a dental assistant in the 1930s.

Terrorism, whether practiced in the U.S. or overseas, can be defined as a deliberate act of violence to instill fear in a target audience. We fight terrorism when we stay calm but resolute; we abet terrorists when our response is to panic or try to foment panic in others. This past weekend, the CEO of the National Rifle Association stood up on a stage in Houston and chose to follow the latter route, linking the recent bombings in Boston with gun ownership - or a lack thereof. "How many Bostonians," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre asked, "wish they had a gun two weeks ago?"

The Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft was one of the largest and most carefully watched in history. The courts ruled that Microsoft illegally maintained its monopoly of personal computer operating systems (OS). After years of oversight of a "behavioral remedy," the department's notoriously weak settlement with Microsoft expired Thursday. After the finding of liability and almost a decade of monitoring Microsoft's behavior, the net result has been to leave Microsoft pretty much where it started — with its Windows monopoly intact.

WASHINGTON - Showing a keen interest in dividing Microsoft Corp. into three new companies, a federal judge signaled yesterday that he will bring the antitrust case to a swift close with an order to break up the software giant. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, at a hearing lasting nearly three hours, gave his first reactions to competing proposals for ways to remedy Microsoft's violations of antitrust law that he had found earlier. Jackson seemed inclined to embrace a breakup proposal, rather than just limit remedies to required changes in the company's behavior.

Tracy L. Palmer was furious when she learned that a Prince George's County judge had decided to reduce her abuser's prison sentence, but attorneys told her it was too late to do anything about it. She fought on anyway, arguing that since she did not receive notification of her ex-boyfriend's attempt to reduce his sentence as required by law, she was entitled to a new hearing and the chance to object. The circuit judge agreed, reversed himself and sent the man, Sharden B. Hoile, back to prison.

When Shelly and David Sturtz bought their house in the Running Deer development near Gamber last fall, they did not expect to own waterfront property.But whenever it rains, a torrent of water nearly a foot deep crosses their front yard, angles toward a neighbor's house and cuts a swath through the back yard to a spring in a ravine about 300 yards away.On sunny days, the Sturtz yard looks as if an 18-wheeler has driven through through it. Parallel ruts created by the runoff from steep yards higher up in the development are about 3 feet wide and 6 to 8 inches deep.

WASHINGTON - With a corporate breakup order looming, Microsoft Corp. made a last-minute plea yesterday to a federal judge to give it strong protection against letting rivals use its secret software codes to clone Microsoft products before any split occurs. The huge software company repeated, in strong terms, its basic argument that it should not be split up. The plan by the Justice Department and 17 states to break Microsoft into two companies, it said, "is extreme and unjustified." But most of the company's final filing assumed a breakup is inevitable and focused on ways to protect Microsoft's inventions and its secrets in the meantime.

WASHINGTON -- Federal and state officials urged a federal judge yesterday to split up Microsoft Corp. -- the most drastic remedy available for law-breaking by a monopoly. Though bandied about for days in leaks and rumors, the release of the details on how officials want to divide the company could send fresh shockwaves through the computer-driven "new economy." The 12-page remedy, suggesting the launching of a pair of big software corporations with separate identities and missions, is only a proposal.

Grace-Kelly Anoma stood in front of a special committee convened to address Coppin State University's troubles and let loose with her frustrations. Some professors teach by reading straight out of the textbook, Anoma told the panel Thursday evening. The dorms often run out of hot water. Students are frequently awarded financial aid, only to wait months for it to be posted to their accounts. The cafeteria food is inedible. Some staff have "the nastiest of attitudes. " "I'm one of those people where I feel like enough is enough," the sophomore nursing student said, drawing applause from a crowd of hundreds.

Pardon the radio silence around here lately. The baby is on round two of teething, and he's not happy. The song goes, "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy," but I think it's more likely, "If baby ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. " We're all short on sleep, even the preschooler, who can't help but be disturbed when his next-room-neighbor is waking up inconsolable several times a night. My husband and I have been taking turns stumbling into the baby's room, offering bottles, hugs, snuggles, teething rings.

Baltimore-based Remedi SeniorCare, which provides pharmaceutical services to long-term care facilities, has bought an Ohio company in a deal that expands its Midwestern customer base. With its acquisition of Cornerstone Pharmacy in northeast Ohio, Remedi now serves more than 15,000 long-term care residents from pharmacies in Cleveland and Troy, Ohio. That adds to the 31,000 residents across nine states and Washington, D.C., that Remedi already counted as clients. Cornerstone President Brad Pinkerton joins Remedi as president of the Midwestern region.

The reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut its threshold for lead poisoning from 10 micrograms per deciliter to 5 micrograms were something of a simplification. What the CDC said, after years of study and discussion, was that no level of lead exposure for children is safe. The 5-microgram level was set somewhat arbitrarily as the point at which doctors and public health officials would recommend parents take action to reduce their children's risk, but there is ample evidence to show that levels of 3 or 4 micrograms - and perhaps even lower - are associated with learning and attention deficit disorders later in life.

Harriett Ann Colder, a reading specialist who established a remedial education company that helped students with English, math and reading, died Tuesdayof multiple organ failure at Howard County General Hospital. The longtime Ellicott City resident was 74. The former Harriett Ann Orth, who went by Ann, was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. After graduating from Towson High School in 1955, she earned her bachelor's degree from what is now Towson University in 1959. In the early 1960s, she earned a master's degree in remedial reading and diagnosis of learning disabilities from Loyola College of Maryland.

You end your editorial on the Buffett Rule ("The Buffett Rule backlash," April 13) with the question, "Where will the $50 billion come from to balance the budget, if not from this minimum tax plan?" Here's the answer: From less spending! George B. Wroe, Glyndon

Q. I was interested in your column about the person who used yellow mustard for indigestion. I want to provide some positive feedback: I tried the mustard remedy for indigestion over the past couple of days and am amazed and delighted that it works. A. We thank the reader who suggested a teaspoon of yellow mustard for heartburn. Apparently the yellow coloring, turmeric, has long been used for digestive disorders. You are not the only one who remarked on this home remedy: "I was fascinated to read that someone else takes yellow mustard for heartburn.

100 years agoIt is reported that on account of the protracted drought, wells and streams are rapidly drying up in parts of Anne Arundel County. -- The Sun, Jan. 9, 1897.It is estimated that $6 million is needed to remedy the disgraceful physical condition of the U.S. Naval Academy with new buildings, relaying the grounds and installing a good system of sewerage. -- The Sun, Jan. 12, 1897.Pub Date: 1/19/97

Princeton's comeback tour got off to a good start last Saturday as the Tigers defeated Hofstra, 12-6. It was a resounding beginning for a program that had lost five players to season-ending injuries and had 15 players deal with various aches and pains en route to a 4-8 overall record and a 2-4 Ivy League mark last season. “There's a lot of pride in this program, and I think we all recognized that as we were going through a very unique set of circumstances last year,” coach Chris Bates said Tuesday morning.

Two recent stories have highlighted how confidential health and patient data are at risk. First, a report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights noted that nearly 8 million Americans were affected by almost 31,000 health information breaches in the course of a year. Alarmingly, nearly 70 percent of the investigations into data breach incidents that affected 500 people or more remain open. Second, a medical data breach of 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital was discovered by a patient after the information had languished online for nearly a year.