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Occupation: Developer and founder of Himmelrich Associates Inc., a 19-year-old Baltimore real estate firm that specializes in renovating decaying industrial properties for offices and retail. In the news: Himmelrich recently bought the former Phoenix Services Inc. incinerator, now called Curtis Bay Energy, one of the nation's largest medical waste-burning plants. Lawmakers and environmentalists wanted it shut down because it broke state air pollution limits more than 400 times over the past two years.

Dr. Duane Anthony Sewell, a highly regarded head and neck surgeon and researcher who was also a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Nov. 26 of gastric cancer at his Mount Washington home. Dr. Sewell was 44. "I can't think of anybody who better exemplified what it means to be a physician than Duane Sewell. He combined excellent surgical and research skills, and making his patients extraordinarily comfortable," said Dr. Kevin Cullen, director of the University of Maryland's Greenebaum Cancer Center.

Q: How valuable is my wooden-handled "Coleman No. 2" iron made of copper and white metal? At one end there's a bulb-like attachment with a small nozzle which I was told holds gasoline!A: The nickel-plated bulb of your 1940s "spirit" iron held an alcohol-based fuel to keep the iron hot; gasoline wasn't used. Made by The Coleman Co., of Philadelphia, this relatively common model is worth around $50 to $70 in good condition, said Linda Campbell Franklin, author of "300 Years of Housekeeping Collectibles," ($25.

Beautine DeCosta-Lee, a retired educator and civil rights activist who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the Kirby Pines retirement community in Memphis, Tenn. The former longtime Northwest Baltimore resident was 95. Beautine Hubert, the granddaughter of slaves, was born in Hancock County, Ga., and was raised near Savannah. "Her parents, John Wesley and Lillie Jones Hubert, were educators," said her daughter, Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, an author who lives in Memphis.

An unusual attempt to compare the effectiveness of an unorthodox cancer treatment to that of conventional chemotherapy has found that both were equally ineffectual in extending the lives of men and women with terminal cancer.The study, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, found no difference in the length of survival between patients treated at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center and patients at an alternative-treatment clinic in San Diego.The researchers did, however, find that the conventionally treated patients reported a higher "quality of life" than patients at the Livingston-Wheeler Clinic -- despite many claims made for alternative therapies and despite the toxicity of chemotherapy.

Donald E. Marsh, a food and nutrition administrator at Morrison Healthcare Food Services, died of cancer Monday at his Ellicott City home. He was 62. Born and raised in Warren, Pa., Mr. Marsh graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1961. He went to Pennsylvania State University, where he met Joanna King, whom he married in 1965. He graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in food service administration. Mr. Marsh worked at various hospitals, including Warren General Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

CHICAGO -- Dr. Morrie Kricun, a University of Pennsylvania radiology professor who co-wrote an illustrated textbook a few years ago called "Imaging the Pelvis," has put together a new illustrated book, this time featuring Elvis Presley.Mr. Kricun, in Chicago recently to lecture at an international radiology meeting, raised some eyebrows among colleagues as he showed off his coffee-table-size effort, "Elvis 1956 Reflections."After his pelvis textbook was published, Mr. Kricun got the idea for an Elvis book.

Baltimore natives Williams Thomas Langan, a coal expert with the U.S. Department of Energy, and his wife, Charlotte Lorraine Langan, were among the 132 killed aboard the crash of USAir Flight 427 Thursday evening.Mr. Langan, along with seven other Department of Energy clean-burning coal experts from Pittsburgh and Morgantown, W.Va., were returning from Chicago, where they had attended a conference sponsored by the department.Mr. Langan, 57, had been director of the Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology Division in Morgantown since 1990, said Michael Gauldin, the department's director of public and consumer affairs.

Edward Terry Jones, an editor at The Sun for 15 years, died Thursday at his home in Tuscany-Canterbury. The cause of death was undetermined.Mr. Jones, 48, had been the newspaper's weekend editor since 1992. He was appointed assistant national editor in 1984, having joined The Sun as a copy editor in 1979."The loss of Terry leaves a large gap in our ranks. He will be missed, not only for his fine work, but also for his true scholarship and subtle sense of humor," said John S. Carroll, editor of The Sun.Before joining the newspaper, he taught English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Too much? The mega-salaries that some CEOs make may reflect poor corporate governance, according to researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers say some board and ownership structures in companies seem to enable CEOs to influence directors in order to win compensation that is excessive for the company's size. They also say corporate governance tends to be weaker when one person is both CEO and chairman.Before you go: Fast Company magazine has some advice for high-tech business travelers: Be sure your office or home PC is set up so you can dial in from afar.

The Johns Hopkins University is expected to announce today that it has selected as its new president Ronald J. Daniels, a Canadian-educated lawyer who is the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, sources have told The Baltimore Sun. Daniels, 49, is something of an unorthodox choice to lead the Hopkins medical institution and university. He has spent the bulk of his professional career in Canada as a professor and dean of law. Hopkins does not have a law school. And unlike Dr. William R. Brody, the departing president at Hopkins, Daniels does not have a medical background.

Raymond Clarence Phillips, a colorful and witty English professor who kept several generations of Western Maryland College students riveted with his classroom dramatizations of literary characters, died Monday of a stroke at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center in Chesapeake, Va. He was 75. Dr. Phillips, who maintained homes in Uniontown and Williamsport, Pa., had been vacationing in Corolla, N.C., when stricken. He was born and raised in Williamsport and graduated from Williamsport High School in 1949.

Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., a medical professor and researcher whose study of the connection between exercise and longevity influenced the modern physical fitness movement, died July 9 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., after a long battle with congestive heart disease, according to the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he taught from 1977 to 1993. Dr. Paffenbarger, an epidemiologist, spent several decades studying the exercise levels, illnesses and deaths of more than 50,000 people who had graduated from Harvard University or the University of Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1950.

Dr. Philip Wagley, a retired dentist and career Army officer who served in three wars, died Sunday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. He was 86. Dr. Wagley was born and raised in Columbia, Pa. He earned his bachelor's and dental degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He served with the Army Dental Corps during World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, at military posts and bases in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Awards Williams Scotsman International Inc., a Baltimore-based modular and mobile space provider, won two Best of Show awards and several first place awards and honorable mentions at the recently concluded Modular Building Institute convention. The World Trade Center Institute presented Columbia-based W.R. Grace & Co. with its International Business Leadership Award for global business accomplishments. Certification William C. Scher, a financial adviser with Owings Mills-based AXA Advisors LLC, was awarded a certificate in retirement planning by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for completing the AXAEquitable at Retirement education program.

I'll tell you when I decided - apologies to Ricky Ricardo - that I had some 'splainin' to do. It was a few days ago when I got an e-mail informing me that I am an "anti-gay bigot." Which would be a shock to the system at any time, but seems especially ironic coming as it does a few weeks before I am supposed to receive an award from PFLAG - Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The source of this ire? A column I wrote about Mary Cheney, who is a lesbian, and pregnant, and the daughter of the vice president.

Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., a medical professor and researcher whose study of the connection between exercise and longevity influenced the modern physical fitness movement, died July 9 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., after a long battle with congestive heart disease, according to the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he taught from 1977 to 1993. Dr. Paffenbarger, an epidemiologist, spent several decades studying the exercise levels, illnesses and deaths of more than 50,000 people who had graduated from Harvard University or the University of Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1950.

Joe Kelly, Loyola SPORT LACROSSE BOYS STATS -- The third-year starting senior defender often targeted the opposing team's best offensive player while averaging more than nine ground balls per game to lead the Dons to the quarterfinals of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference. Considered a take-away and shutdown defender, the 5-foot-8, 160-pound Kelly will play lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania. SIDELINES -- Kelly maintained higher than a 4.0 grade point average during the past four years at Loyola, wrestled varsity as a freshman and switched to varsity squash as his winter sport over the past three years.