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As her schoolmates dashed outside to play hula hoop and tag, Haylee King, 9, and two dozen other pupils filed into the Linthicum Elementary School computer lab, set down their lunch boxes and logged onto the Internet as "secret agents." Logic puzzles flashed onto the computer screens, and a countdown clock started ticking. Haylee wore a look of intense concentration as she sparred with classmates in a game that involved fitting odd shapes together. "They really challenge you," said the serious-looking fourth-grader (code name: sportsgirl)

On February 8, 2005, F. MARIE EVANS SMART BECHTEL of Bel Air, MD beloved wife of the late Dennison Bechtel; devoted father of Linda C. Smart-Sullivan, Sharon Lee Taylor and the late Terry W. Smart and Joan C. Montgomery. Also survived by four grandchildren Donna Riley, Donald Whitaker, Jeffrey White, and Briana Marie Sullivan and two great-grandchildren Joe Riley and Jeffrey White. Grandmother of the late Keith A. Smart. A service will be held in the family owned Mc Comas Funeral Home, P.A., Bel Air, MD on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 10 a.m. Interment will be in Parkwood Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. Friends may call at the funeral home in Bel Air on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

Robert Smart carries a bit of security in his car's sun visor. It's a card that reads: DRIVER is DEAF. Like many deaf drivers, Smart, a 59-year-old Arbutus resident, has suffered through long, confusing and potentially dangerous encounters with police during traffic stops because the officer did not know that Smart could not hear his instructions. Smart hopes the card, which is being distributed to deaf drivers throughout the state by the Maryland Sheriffs' Association, will make future traffic stops easier.

On September 11, 2004 HOWARD JACKSON, JR. (HEAVY LOW), dear uncle of Charles Smart, Ronald Ringgold, Lisa Davis, Wendy Southerland, one devoted niece-in-law Geraldine Smart and a host of great nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Visitation at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, Thursday 12 noon to 7 P.M. Family will be present 5 to 7 P.M. Family will receive friends on Friday in the above chapel 11 A.M., Homegoing Service 11:30 A.M. Interment Mt. Zion Cemetery.

We have it on reliable authority that some of those anonymous accusations are lies, but cannot reveal our sources.John Major's victory is the greatest comeback by an underdog since Harry Truman returned to office in 1948.It turns out smart bombs weren't half as smart as we said, nor were the journalists who bought the story.Tsongas is waiting for lightning to strike Clinton.Of course stadium neighbors had their cars towed from resident parking for the presidential motorcade and had to pay to get them back.

Robert Smart carries a bit of security in his car's sun visor. It's a card that reads: DRIVER is DEAF. Like many deaf drivers, Smart, a 59-year-old Arbutus resident, has suffered through long, confusing and potentially dangerous encounters with police during traffic stops because the officer did not know that Smart could not hear his instructions. Smart hopes the card, which is being distributed to deaf drivers throughout the state by the Maryland Sheriffs' Association, will make future traffic stops easier.

EXETER, N.H. -- Jurors will resume deliberations today in a murder trial that has become New Hampshire's own real-life soap opera, a case in which the prosecution charged that a 23-year-old high schoolteacher got her "hook so deep into the hormones" of one of her students that he killed her husband for her.The 12-member jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Pamela Smart for the second day yesterday and was sequestered at a hotel near the Rockingham...

The number 18 Catches by Raiders' Doug Jolley, which leads all NFL tight ends. The quote "You're either an 18-wheeler or a Volkswagen out there. Rod is an 18-wheeler most of the time." Scott O'Brien, Panthers special teams coach, on Rod "He Hate Me" Smart

"The Business," by Iain Banks. Simon & Schuster. 400 pages. $25. Iain Banks is a smart, smart man, and he has created a smart, smart woman, Kate Telman, as the narrator / protagonist of his novel, "The Business." Kate is a startlingly young executive -- a Level Three before age 40 -- in the Business, a mega-corporation with holdings too vast to contemplate and a history that predates Christianity and even rates a mention in Gibbon. The Business casts an invisible skein across continents and centuries; stronger than governments, silent as cancer, ubiquitous as gravity.

She is willful, headstrong and prone to petulance -- a teen-ager in equine years.Mary Bo Quoit is growing up.At 18 months, the frisky filly is feeling her oats, bossing her playmates and bedeviling her owners at Liberty Run Farm in Carroll County. Like many teens, Mary Bo Quoit is also changing her appearance, the latest milestone for the Maryland thoroughbred, one of 1,500 foaled in the state last year. Her journey from birth to racetrack is being chronicled in The Sun.Born a bay, Mary Bo Quoit is turning gray, a change triggered by bloodline.