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Managed care official named at Carroll hospitalDavid Horn has been appointed vice president of marketing, business development and managed care at Carroll County General Hospital.Horn comes to Carroll from Children's Health System in Norfolk, Va. He also has been a medical administrator in the Navy.He holds a bachelor's degree in health and business administration from the University of Cincinnati and a master's degree in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mike Woods' death last week was much like his abbreviated NFL career with the Baltimore Colts: It went largely unnoticed. To suggest it was unlamented would be wrong, however. Very wrong. Woods' career was cut short in 1982 by an assailant's bullet that destroyed his spinal cord and rendered him a quadriplegic the last 27 years of his life. It was what he did after getting shot that made a difference and set him apart. "He had a spirit that would not give up and a spirit that was happy," former Colts teammate Ron Fernandes said.

Two new studies of young adults who grew up in poor, inner-city neighborhoods in Cincinnati have found that childhood exposure to lead is linked to a significant loss of critical brain matter and to an increased risk of criminal behavior. Researchers followed hundreds of children from the womb into their 20s and found an average loss of 1.2 percent in the volume of gray matter in the brain by the time they reached adulthood. That sounds minor, but researchers at the University of Cincinnati said the losses were concentrated in brain regions responsible for critical "executive" functions, such as impulse control, emotional regulation, judgment and the anticipation of consequences.

Two new studies of young adults who grew up in poor, inner-city neighborhoods in Cincinnati have found that childhood exposure to lead is linked to a significant loss of critical brain matter and to an increased risk of criminal behavior. Researchers followed hundreds of children from the womb into their 20s and found an average loss of 1.2 percent in the volume of gray matter in the brain by the time they reached adulthood. That sounds minor, but researchers at the University of Cincinnati said the losses were concentrated in brain regions responsible for critical "executive" functions, such as impulse control, emotional regulation, judgment and the anticipation of consequences.

Theodore J. Younker, who worked for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad for more than 30 years, died Thursday of pneumonia at the Woodside Manor Nursing and Convalescent Center in Cincinnati. He was 92.Known as "Ted," the Baltimore native began his B&O career as an auditing department clerk in 1918. While working for the railroad, he completed high school and, in 1943, earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore.He rose through the ranks, working as mail and railway express manager, general freight agent and assistant freight traffic manager.

The NFL Players Association last week signed off on a league waiver that will allow the Ravens to make $9 million in capital improvements to M&T Bank Stadium over a three-year period. Club president Dick Cass said the improvements actually began a year ago with work on the suite level and south side of the club level. The north side of the club level is also targeted for work, he said. The waiver process allows the Ravens to recoup $3 million of the $9 million budgeted cost. The NFL approved the team's request for the credit last May. NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw said this week that the union approved waivers for stadiums of three teams - the Ravens, Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers.

Dr. Claire M. Fraser, of Potomac, MD, and Dr. Stephen B. Liggett, of Cincinnati, OH, were married before family and friends on June 24th at The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. Following the wedding, a dinner reception was held at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. The wedding party included the groom's three children, Elliott, Langdon, and Mara Liggett. This is the secondmarriage for both. The bride is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a Ph.D.

Melanie Feinman plans to take five years to graduate from college, a year more than many students.The Columbia 20-year-old is not taking her time. Along with hundreds of thousands of students across the country, she is enrolled in a cooperative education program -- in which students spend half their collegiate careers in the classroom and half "co-oping" or working in jobs in their fields of study to gain practical experience.Beginning in 1906 at the University of Cincinnati, cooperative education is still a relatively unknown method of organizing undergraduate education in this country.

The long search for a full-time athletic director at Morgan State ended yesterday with the hiring of Garnett H. Purnell, who has served the past five years as a compliance representative for the NCAA.Before that, he was an assistant athletic director at the University of Cincinnati from 1985 to 1991.Purnell, 45, is the 10th AD at Morgan State since 1929. His hTC contract becomes effective March 13."One of my professional aspirations was to be a Division I athletic director," he said yesterday from his office in Overland Park, Kan. "I've been on a campus for 14 years, and this experience [with the NCAA]

As school enrollments continue to swell and the nation's teaching force continues to shrink (increasingly through retirements), teaching jobs are becoming readily available. And the situation hasn't gone unnoticed by college students.Throughout the country, more and more are entering teacher education programs, particularly at the graduate level."People are interested in doing something that's relevant," said Karen Zumwalt, the dean of Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City.

The NFL Players Association last week signed off on a league waiver that will allow the Ravens to make $9 million in capital improvements to M&T Bank Stadium over a three-year period. Club president Dick Cass said the improvements actually began a year ago with work on the suite level and south side of the club level. The north side of the club level is also targeted for work, he said. The waiver process allows the Ravens to recoup $3 million of the $9 million budgeted cost. The NFL approved the team's request for the credit last May. NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw said this week that the union approved waivers for stadiums of three teams - the Ravens, Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers.

Arachnologists are used to it. Whenever they tell someone what they do, the reaction is predictable. Eeeeeewwwww! That's because they work with spiders. "You're almost a little self-conscious about the stuff you do," said Matt Persons, a biologist at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania who was in Baltimore this week for the American Arachnological Society's 30th annual conference. "But most times people will also tell you their spider story, even though they get `icked out' by it. Then they will start asking questions."

Dr. Claire M. Fraser, of Potomac, MD, and Dr. Stephen B. Liggett, of Cincinnati, OH, were married before family and friends on June 24th at The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. Following the wedding, a dinner reception was held at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. The wedding party included the groom's three children, Elliott, Langdon, and Mara Liggett. This is the secondmarriage for both. The bride is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a Ph.D.

Many public colleges and universities around the country are caught in financial crunches, prompting midyear tuition increases and belt-tightening measures such as enrollment limits and faculty cuts. The financial problems stem from strains on state budgets because of the slow economy over the past year and a bulge in the number of youths reaching college age. "This is the first time in the modern history of higher education that we've had enrollment pressure and a bad economy at the same time," said Patrick M. Callan, president of the nonprofit National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in San Jose, Calif.

Elmer J. Goldstein, a retired attorney whose career with the Social Security Administration spanned more than three decades, died Sunday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 88 and lived in Randallstown.Mr. Goldstein began his SSA career in the late 1930s when the agency was in its infancy. He'd worked for the agency in Washington and New York City before moving in 1954 to Baltimore, where he remained until retiring from SSA in 1972."He was known for his cogent and lucid analyses of disability cases," said his son, Robert Goald of Cockeysville.

Managed care official named at Carroll hospitalDavid Horn has been appointed vice president of marketing, business development and managed care at Carroll County General Hospital.Horn comes to Carroll from Children's Health System in Norfolk, Va. He also has been a medical administrator in the Navy.He holds a bachelor's degree in health and business administration from the University of Cincinnati and a master's degree in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Elmer J. Goldstein, a retired attorney whose career with the Social Security Administration spanned more than three decades, died Sunday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 88 and lived in Randallstown.Mr. Goldstein began his SSA career in the late 1930s when the agency was in its infancy. He'd worked for the agency in Washington and New York City before moving in 1954 to Baltimore, where he remained until retiring from SSA in 1972."He was known for his cogent and lucid analyses of disability cases," said his son, Robert Goald of Cockeysville.