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John Malcolm Brinnin, 81, a prize-winning poet, critic, anthologist and teacher who first brought Welsh poet Dylan Thomas to the United States, died Thursday in Key West, Fla. Mr. Brinnin taught poetry at Vassar College, Boston University, the University of Connecticut and Harvard University, and his books included the 1955 memoir "Dylan Thomas in America."Pub Date: 6/28/98

Baltimore sports apparel company Under Armour said this morning it has signed an endorsement deal with NBA rookie Kemba Walker. Walker will wear Under Armour footwear while training and on-court during games. He will also be featured in marketing campaigns for the company's basketball line. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The former University of Connecticut player will play for the Charlotte Bobcats next season. Walker led the University of Connecticut to the 2011 NCAA National Championship and 2011 Big East Tournament Championship.

Centennial's Lauren Molinaro has verbally committed to attend the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., on a full soccer scholarship.Molinaro, a two-time All-Metro and Howard County Player of the Year, visited Connecticut, George Mason, Minnesota and South Carolina universities."

America's on-again, off-again romance with echinacea could be on again. The popular herbal supplement, made from the purple coneflower, might reduce the chances of catching a cold by 58 percent, according to the latest in a long line of confusing and contradictory studies. Better yet, echinacea might reduce the length of a cold by an average of 1.4 days -- a substantial savings, because colds cause 40 percent of the nation's lost work time, the authors of a recent study say. The study, conducted by scientists from the University of Connecticut, is published online today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, a British medical journal.

MILTON MARKOWITZ, MD, 87, of West Hartford, CT, formerly of Baltimore, MD, husband of Selma, passed away on July 7, 2005 in Farmington, CT. Born in Brooklyn, NY on June 6, 1918, he was the son of the late Morris David and Ida Markowitz. Dr. Markowitz was raised in Liberty, NY. He attended college and medical school at Syracuse University. He was a US Navy Veteran of World War II. A life-long pediatrician, he was Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and then the first Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, 1969-1983, and subsequently Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs, 1983-1992, at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Channel 11 today announced its schedule of NCA basketball games for Thursday, the opening day of the 64-team tournament.At 12.30 p.m., said Emerson Coleman, director of broadcasting operations, Duke will play Northeast Louisiana in a Midwest Regional first-rounder. That will be followed at 2.40 p.m. by the N.C. State-Southern Mississippi game, an Eastern Regional game from College Park. If that game is not sold out, Coleman said, the station must carry the Seton Hall-Pepperdine game.At 8 p.m. it's Louisiana State vs. the University of Connecticut from the Midwest.

RUSSELL PAYNE, 17, of Ellicott City.School: a senior at Glenelg High School.Honored for: He is co-chairman of Howard County's Black Student Achievement Program and president of the Black Awareness Club at Glenelg High School. He is a member of the Student Government Association, and a member of the U.S. Region I Soccer Team, which includes 15 mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states. Russell, a goalkeeper, has been playing soccer since he was 5 years old.Goals: He wants to become a physical therapist and is interested in a number of schools, including the University of Connecticut, Georgetown University, the University of South Carolina and North Carolina State University.

A pioneer in the genetic engineering of fish has been hired away from the Center of Marine Biotechnology in Baltimore to run a new biotechnology center at the University of Connecticut.Dr. Thomas T. Chen, 52, will leave July 1, according to Dr. Madilyn Fletcher, director and professor at COMB, which is part of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute."We will be sorry to see him go because he's a real strong researcher," Dr. Fletcher said. "But he will remain an adjunct professor and continue to do collaborative research" with the institute.

ONCE, COLORBLINDNESS was synonymous with civil rights. The pioneers in the fight to abolish Jim Crow took as their inspiration Justice John Harlan's great dissent in Plessy vs. Ferguson. "Our Constitution is color-blind," Harlan had written, "and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Sadly, today's civil rights establishment clamors not for color-blindness, but for its opposite: affirmative action, racial preferences, minority set-asides. In another era, the Klan would have been the most vehement foe of laws, like California's Proposition 209, that bar states from granting or denying benefits on the basis of race.

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Another die-off of lobsters apparently occurred across the breadth of Long Island Sound this fall, rocking an industry still staggering from a much more serious biological collapse two years ago. Just as they had in 1999, lobstermen began to pull dead lobsters from their traps in October, said Carl LoBue, a marine biologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. "The numbers were not as high as in 1999, but we think that's because there are so many fewer lobsters in the sound now," LoBue said.

To the list of all-time greatest underdogs, from the Old Testament's David to horse racing's Seabiscuit, let us add another: George Mason University's men's basketball team. The Patriots may be the biggest long shot to ever make an NCAA Final Four appearance thanks to their inspired 86-84 overtime victory over the heavily favored University of Connecticut on Sunday in Washington. George Mason wasn't expected to survive the first round. It barely earned an invitation to the 65-team field.

The first national study of liquor advertising and its effects on youth confirms what many have long suspected -- that young people who see more ads for alcoholic beverages tend to drink more. Researchers at the University of Connecticut and Ohio State University conducted the study. "This is the most solid piece of research evidence to come forth to date linking exposure to alcohol advertising and increased youth drinking," said David Jernigan, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University.

MILTON MARKOWITZ, MD, 87, of West Hartford, CT, formerly of Baltimore, MD, husband of Selma, passed away on July 7, 2005 in Farmington, CT. Born in Brooklyn, NY on June 6, 1918, he was the son of the late Morris David and Ida Markowitz. Dr. Markowitz was raised in Liberty, NY. He attended college and medical school at Syracuse University. He was a US Navy Veteran of World War II. A life-long pediatrician, he was Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and then the first Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, 1969-1983, and subsequently Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs, 1983-1992, at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

CHICAGO - Spring is nigh, which means that all across America, millions upon millions of basketball fans are tensely awaiting that hard-court extravaganza, the biggest and most exciting basketball event of the year: the NCAA women's tournament. Well, actually, they're not. Even in this era of gender equality, females playing hoops don't get much attention from a populace that assumes almost any sport played by men trumps any played by women. A sum of cash exceeding the gross domestic product of Italy is invested each year in March Madness pools, but you'd have to be truly insane to try to organize one for the women's counterpart.

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Another die-off of lobsters apparently occurred across the breadth of Long Island Sound this fall, rocking an industry still staggering from a much more serious biological collapse two years ago. Just as they had in 1999, lobstermen began to pull dead lobsters from their traps in October, said Carl LoBue, a marine biologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. "The numbers were not as high as in 1999, but we think that's because there are so many fewer lobsters in the sound now," LoBue said.

Modern technology is making it possible for students at River Hill High School to hold the world in the palms of their hands. The Internet, a thesaurus, dictionaries in three languages, literary texts, calculators, the school's code of student conduct - all are encased inside personal digital assistants distributed by the school to the freshman class, to be used for research, homework and projects, class assignments and teacher feedback. Some of the tech-savvy teens, however, have discovered that the hand-held devices are useful for other things: e-mailing friends, playing computer games, chatting by instant messenger - and cheating.

The first national study of liquor advertising and its effects on youth confirms what many have long suspected -- that young people who see more ads for alcoholic beverages tend to drink more. Researchers at the University of Connecticut and Ohio State University conducted the study. "This is the most solid piece of research evidence to come forth to date linking exposure to alcohol advertising and increased youth drinking," said David Jernigan, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University.

She's spent decades analyzing test scores and other student performance measures, but Mary E. Yakimowski doesn't consider herself a "number-cruncher." "I'd rather be considered one who knows how to take data and use data and explain the implications of it," she said. "It's OK to have numbers, but you need to make use of numbers." That's exactly what Baltimore schools chief Carmen V. Russo has hired the veteran education research specialist from Virginia to do. Yakimowski, 41, has joined Russo's team as research, evaluation and accountability officer, replacing an interim officer, Ricka Markowitz, who has served for more than two years.

She's spent decades analyzing test scores and other student performance measures, but Mary E. Yakimowski doesn't consider herself a "number-cruncher." "I'd rather be considered one who knows how to take data and use data and explain the implications of it," she said. "It's OK to have numbers, but you need to make use of numbers." That's exactly what Baltimore schools chief Carmen V. Russo has hired the veteran education research specialist from Virginia to do. Yakimowski, 41, has joined Russo's team as research, evaluation and accountability officer, replacing an interim officer, Ricka Markowitz, who has served for more than two years.