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LIVERPOOL, England -- At Town Hall, the facade has sculpted heads of African peoples -- silent reminders of the victims of the slave trade that once helped make this city rich. Street names commemorate the places the slave merchants traded with -- Maryland Street, Virginia Street.For 75 years, Liverpool merchants and seamen dominated the infamous trans-Atlantic commerce in human beings -- until 1807, when Britain banned it. For the next half-century they traded in the cotton, tobacco and sugar that slave labor produced.

Tonight at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Upper Park Heights, they're packing up the prayer books, telling the rabbi to can the sermon and giving the organist the night off. It's not a revolt. It's Friday Night Live, a contemporary Sabbath service that will bring together Baltimore's four Reform congregations: Baltimore Hebrew, Temple Oheb Shalom, Temple Emanuel and Har Sinai. "It's got a little bit of jazz, a little bit of rock 'n' roll, a little bit of klezmer [a type of Jewish folk music]

William C. Rust Jr.World War II veteranWilliam C. Rust Jr., a decorated World War II veteran and retired route salesman for H&S Bakery in Baltimore, died of heart failure Saturday at Van Zandt Veterans Administration Medical Center in Altoona, Pa. He was 78.He retired in 1977 after nine years with H&S. Earlier, he had worked in sales with the old Rice's Bakery.Daughter-in-law Jean Harmic said, "William was a very quiet person; he didn't talk much about his past. He was very patriotic."He belonged to Mount Ararat Lodge of the Masons, Boumi Temple and the National League of Masonic Clubs-Ashlar Club, and the American Legion and the Loyal Order of the Moose, both in Edgewood.

Coach of the Year Ron Shelton, Wilde Lake: The message Shelton gave his players on the first day of practice was to the point. "He made sure everyone knew that winning the county was our first goal, said Wilde Lake junior Ari Zweig. "And during the season, he made sure everyone was focused and physically ready to play the matches." The Wildecats didn't disappoint, going 18-0 and earning their fourth county title and first since 1985. "This was our best season." said Shelton, a ninth-grade health teacher who just completed his fourth season as tennis coach 'You can't do much better than finishing undefeated.

Dr. Ross E. Taubman of Howard County General Hospital was recently elected president of the American Podiatric Medical Association. He has been an APMA board trustee since 1997. Recently, he served on the APMA's Vision 2015 Committee, which is looking at the future of podiatric medicine. Taubman, who received the Podiatric Physician of the Year award from the Fund for Podiatric Medical Education in 1996, is also a past president of the Maryland Podiatric Medical Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and a member of the American Diabetes Association, the Amputee Coalition of America and the American Public Health Association.

University of Maryland scientists say they have found a bright side to the great blackout of August 2003 that darkened the homes and workplaces of 50 million people in parts of the Midwest, Northeast and Canada. The idling of electric power plants across the affected region resulted in drastically healthier air and bluer skies downwind, including the Baltimore-Washington corridor, the researchers said. Sampling by aircraft 24 hours after the blackout began found a 90 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide and a 50 percent cut in ozone levels.

The three doubles teams that produced victories at the county tournament repeated their success yesterday at the rain-delayed conclusion of the Region III tournament. All three doubles finals matched the same players from the county championships. Because of rain, the matches were played inside the Owen Brown Tennis Club and at the Columbia Athletic Club. Wilde Lake's Ari Zweig and Dave Lax took the boys doubles title with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Eric Buchner and Brian Pryse of River Hill.

Sylvester Gibbons Mattingly, a retired auto parts salesman, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at Heartlands Assisted Living, where he had resided for the past three years. The former Arbutus resident was 90. Born in La Plata, he moved to East Baltimore as a child and attended city public schools. In the 1930s, he was a salesman at the old Taubman's automotive merchandise stores. During World War II, he joined the Army and became a military courier. He survived the shooting down of his plane near the Philippines and attained the rank of lieutenant.

* Margot's Finishing Touches relocated to Clock Tower Place, 1410 Forest Drive in Annapolis.* Apogee Designs Ltd., a manufacturing company in Baltimore, moved to 101 S. Kane St.New accounts* Eisner & Associates Inc., a regional advertising agency, is representing Ashley Treatment Center in Havre de Grace, American Foundation for Urologic Disease, the Taubman Co.* Marriner Marketing Communications Inc., a Columbia-based advertising and sales promotion agency,...

APRIL AND JEFF Ogle of Columbia are dancing the nights away. But it's not ballroom dance - not even close. The brother-and-sister team are members of a local break-dancing group, and they dance together in competitions and for fun. Break dancing, as most people know it - or "B-Boying" and "B-Girling," as the break-dancing community calls it - began in the 1970s and became popular in the mid-1980s, according to April, 14, and Jeff, 17. "The foundations are...