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When it comes to teens having babies, it's a matter of pay me now or pay me later. You can pay for the programs that help teens understand sex and make good decisions about it, and you can pay for the health care services that provide them with options for contraception. Or you can pay for the misfortunes that are more likely to befall the child of a teen mother: health problems, behavioral and educational issues, and a greater likelihood of criminal troubles in adolescence and young adulthood.

BALTIMORE Chief operating officer for city schools resigns Carlton G. Epps, the chief operating officer of Baltimore City public schools, has resigned from his position, school officials said yesterday. Epps resigned Monday afternoon, according to a school spokeswoman who declined to give further details. Epps could not be reached for comment. As COO since October 2003, Epps directed the maintenance and renovation of school facilities. He also was responsible for student transportation, school police and cafeteria operations, and served as one of three top administrators under city schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland.

On February 1, 2003, EDNA L. GOLDERMAN, employee of Black & Decker from 1941 to 1981. Daughter of the late Ray mond and Catherine Golderman, sister of Mary E. Emmart and the late Louis Golderman, aunt of Michael, Daniel, Thomas and Glenn Emmart, Joyce Schulte and Linda Brzeczko. She is also survived by several grand-nieces and one grand-nephew, step-sister of Al Wehner. A Vigil Service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Rd., (at Echodale) on Tuesday, at 3 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Dominic Church on Wednesday at 12 noon.

Saul Sitzer, who owned a popular Parkville restaurant and was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew numerous combat missions over Germany in World War II, died of stroke complications Sunday at the Loch Raven Veterans Affairs Hospital. He was 86 and lived in Perry Hall. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in the Canarsie section, he was the son of a Polish-born grocer. He was a 1942 graduate of Samuel J. Tilden High School. He attended Brooklyn College and enlisted in what was then the Army Air Corps.

College soccer scholarships in Anne Arundel County are rare, even at schools like Chesapeake, which has a rich tradition in the sport. So, when the Cougars' Chris Saul signed a national letter of intent two weeks ago to accept a full Division I scholarship to Longwood University in Farmville, Va., it was noteworthy. Saul is just the third Chesapeake soccer player to receive a Division I scholarship. A two-time second-team All-State forward, Saul scored six goals and had eight assists to finish his three-year varsity career with 23 goals and 18 assists.

SAUL BELLOW: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION.Ruth Miller.St. Martin's.385 pages. $24.95.Is Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow a great man, a luminary who can illuminate us? Or is he a slapstick comedian, a victim of his own shticks? Is he a genius or a jerk?Few American writers possess Saul Bellow's elegantly humane dignity, his personal grace. Few can match his world-recognized accomplishments, which seem to be a fulfillment of the fantasies of characters in his early novels -- or duplications in real life of the success of fictional creations like Henderson or Benn Crader.

Steven B. Larsen, who as Maryland's insurance commissioner blocked CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's attempt to convert to for-profit operation and sell itself to a California-based company, said yesterday that he will join the Baltimore office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP. Though he is likely to be best remembered for the 200-page report in which he blistered CareFirst's board and executives, Larsen said yesterday that he is proudest of bringing a...

Saul Bellow, a towering figure of American literature, has, at 84, produced a new novel. It is vibrant with life, joy, love -- and abrim with wisdom. If proof were needed that great craft need not ebb with age, and that a brilliant mind and courageous heart need never cease growing, here it is: "Ravelstein" (Penguin Putnam Inc., 233 pages, $24.95). The book is concise and the story quite simple. It centers on Abe Ravelstein, a distinguished, controversial scholar of political philosophy.

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, the towering American literary figure whose work reflected the angst, yearnings and moral ambiguity of post-World War II existence, died yesterday at 89. Mr. Bellow's friend and attorney, Walter Pozen, said that the writer of such vibrant, darkly comic works as Herzog and Humboldt's Gift, had been in declining health but was "wonderfully sharp to the end." Mr. Bellow died in Brookline, Mass., his wife and daughter at his side. Mr. Bellow was perhaps the most acclaimed of a remarkable collection of postwar American Jewish writers that included Bernard Malamud, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick.