Survivors

Leukemia survivors are invited to attend this week's women's basketball game between No. 14 Maryland and Wake Forest for free. To receive free admission to the Atlantic Coast Conference game, which will tip off at 8:30 p.m. Friday at Comcast Center, survivors should e-mail isurvived@umd.edu with their name and contact information. Tickets will be at will call. Guests of survivors may purchase tickets at the discounted price of $4 each. To purchase, please visit umterps.com/awareness and enter the promotion code "awareness.

It's the finale already! That seems quick, doesn't it? I guess that means this season has been better than most, because I haven't been praying for it to end already. I might feel differently about that if Phillip had stuck around longer. Speaking of who stuck around, can you believe that Eddie is still around? He, as Jeff points out in the recap at the beginning of the show, has been at the bottom since the very beginning. If Eddie makes it to the end, I will laugh and laugh at Cochran and Dawn.

"Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship. " — President Woodrow Wilson The last anyone heard of the Cyclops as it steamed in a voyage that began in Bahia, Brazil, on Feb. 22, 1918, en route to Baltimore with 10,000 tons of manganese ore in its bunkers, was in a telegram to the West Indian Steamship Co. in New York City. "Advise charterers USS CYCLOPS arrived Barbadoes Three March for bunkers. Expect to arrive Baltimore Thirteen March. Opnav.

Back from ousting Malcolm at the last Tribal Council, Reynold and Eddie know their days are most likely numbered, but they're going to play as hard as they can. I think Reynold is better at challenges than Eddie, so I think he will last longer (of course, now that I've said that, he's going home tonight.) Cochran isn't content with being a part of the majority alliance. He wants to make a move that will solidify his power in the game. I think he should stay put for a little while longer.

It's night 23, back at camp after Tribal Council, and things are a little awkward. Troyzan has figured out that he doesn't have an alliance, and that it's way too late to do anything about it. While Troy and the women bicker, we see Leif sitting there silently. I hope that Troy causes such a fuss that the women forget about Leif and that he lasts a few more episodes. I think he's got a good chance of winning some immunity challenges, because he never gives up. About this time every season I try to pick out those that I like who might actually have a chance of winning.

It's hard to say goodbye to colleagues. Especially under stressful circumstances such as layoffs that are becoming more frequent in the slumping economy. While the focus is on the plight of unemployed friends and co-workers - and rightly so - there's another group that is also suffering: the so-called survivors who are left to deal with guilt, sadness and other whirling emotions. "There are feelings of guilt," says Benjamin Dattner, a management consultant and adjunct professor in the industrial and organizational psychology master's program at New York University.

Killeen, Texas -- This is a killing ground as seen through the lens of a video camera.There is a blue Ford pickup truck, passenger door ajar, parked in the dining area. Tables and chairs are overturned. Shards of glass are sprinkled on a carpet. Purses and shoes are scattered. A middle-aged woman lies motionless, her fingers inches from a cellular telephone. She is dead.There are other murder victims. A woman, face pressed against a wall, lying under a metal serving line that holds trays laden with plates of food.

People who have battled cancer are invited to two events this weekend to mark National Cancer Survivors Day, which is Sunday.The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, which includes candlelight ceremonies and overnight camp-outs, begins tomorrow at 6 p.m. and lasts 24 hours.Survivors and community groups will form teams to walk or run relay-style at four locations -- Owings Mills High School, Bel Air High School, Severna Park High School and Howard Community College.On Sunday, the Greater Baltimore Alliance for Cancer Survivorship will hold a reception from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore.

As state and federal investigators yesterday began an inquiry into Sunday's sinking of a charter fishing boat in the lower Chesapeake Bay, survivors recounted a harrowing storm-tossed nightmare that claimed two lives."

AGUAS BLANCAS, Mexico -- Police armed with semiautomatic weapons unleashed a barrage of gunfire at a group of farmers, killing 18 and wounding 24, survivors say, describing one of the bloodiest clashes between Mexican police and civilians in years.Versions of how Wednesday's clash began differed. Survivors said they were unarmed and attacked by more than 100 police who surrounded them in what amounted to a calculated massacre.Police said the farmers, on their way to an anti-government demonstration, had guns and machetes and attacked after being stopped along a road for a routine weapons check.

Back at Bikal after Tribal Council, everyone agrees they liked Matt and that it sucked to have to send him home. Michael is especially bereft, as Matt was his ally from the start. Luckily for him, Corinne loves the gays, and she's willing to get rid of someone from her alliance (namely, Phillip) in order to keep him. Phillip sees them talking, and, as a federal agent (sigh) he doesn't trust Corinne and wants her gone immediately. Cochran tries to talk him down using logic and solid game strategy, but it doesn't seem to have any affect.

It started as the kind of delivery Pat Schoenberger, an Annapolis sea captain, had made many times: Pick up a client's motor sailboat, ferry it to Florida and return home in a few weeks' time. A brilliant morning sky beckoned as Schoenberger and Jim Southward, his friend and first mate, left Severn, Va., for Pensacola, Fla. Thirty-eight hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter rescued them off Cape Lookout, N.C., amid pounding rain, 55-knot winds, 30-foot waves and the sensation, Southward said, that the ocean was tossing their 15-ton craft, Andante II, "like a cork in a hot tub. " What happened in between was a story of how, even in an era of high-tech sea mapping and navigation, the wisdom of seasoned mariners still can be no match for an angry sea. Schoenberger, 38, and Southward, 40, seemed dazed and relieved in an interview as they sifted the choices they'd made along the way, including the one no sailor wants to make: to declare Mayday, call for rescue and abandon ship.

After he was raped by a fellow Navy sailor, Brian Lewis wanted justice. What he got, the Baltimore man told a Senate panel Wednesday, was an order to keep quiet. When commanders learned of the attack, Lewis said, he was told not to report it to naval investigators. From his unit's lawyers, he said, there was "an eerie silence. " "At some point, it becomes about preservation of their own career, rather than helping me," the former Navy petty officer said. "There was no effective legal situation that I could access.

A sniper's bullet pierces Jimmy Halcomb's neck. The speeding car of a drug-crazed driver crushes Dick Miller's body. Two bullets at point-blank range rip into Ted Wolf's head.The deaths of these Maryland police officers live on. As President Clinton leads a national tribute to officers who died in the line of duty today in Washington, their survivors' pain and anger persist."I think I get madder every birthday, getting older and still alone," says Betty Miller, 59, whose husband, Baltimore police Officer Richard T. "Dick" Miller, was killed in 1986.

NINETY years ago today and tomorrow, the Great Baltimore Fire devastated 140 acres in downtown Baltimore.Virtually everything was destroyed from Liberty Street east to the Jones Falls and from Fayette Street south to the harbor.About 15 buildings within the "burnt district" survived the fire, and 10 are still standing, silent monuments to the greatest disaster in Baltimore's history.Thousands of downtown workers and visitors pass these survivors every day, but few can distinguish them from their post-fire neighbors.