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SYKESVILLE'S MAIN Street has undergone a gradual transformation over the past decade or so from a sleepy small-town street to a bustling place of revitalized businesses, antiques shops and eateries.Now Main Street will be home to a coffeehouse.Alley Cats' Cafe will soon occupy the second floor of the Warfield Building, and entrepreneur Kim Lopes has big plans for food and entertainment in the 1,200-square-foot space.Lopes plans to offer 40 kinds of coffee along with pastries during the morning and sandwiches and other light fare at lunch and in the evening.

PHILADELPHIA - Nearly 30 years after its last major construction project added dormitories, the student bookstore and a new research center, the University of Pennsylvania is in the midst of two major building and renovation projects that will again reshape its campus.One of them, called Sansom Common, will include in its first phase a 250-room hotel, shops and a new bookstore at an estimated cost of $73 million. The site is at the heart of the campus on a block bounded by Walnut, Sansom, 36th and 37th streets that for years has been a 2-acre parking lot.The second phase will include the creation of a new north-south street linking the hotel entrance to Chestnut Street, a major artery leading to downtown Philadelphia.

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.

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.

New positionsGordon is chosen CFO of Ginger CoveGinger Cove selected Patricia L. Gordon as chief financial officer with responsibility for the daily financial operations of the Annapolis retirement/life-care community. A certified public accountant and graduate of the University of Maryland, she was most recently the organization's director of financial services.Tepperman to head KCI hazardous waste unitKCI Technologies, the Hunt Valley-based environmental-engineering firm, announced the appointment of Mark S. Tepperman as senior associate and head of its hazardous waste division.

Jody Lumpkin, a 6-foot-8 center from Columbia, S.C., who was recruited by Maryland, has made an oral commitment to attend Rice University, his high school coach said yesterday."

Andrew BednarzikSchool: Calvert Hall College High SchoolHometown: ColumbiaAge: 17Andrew, a senior in the McMullen Scholars Program at Calvert Hall, has a 4.0 grade point average. The scholarship is awarded to students who score high on an entrance exam and meet other requirements, such as taking Latin and humanities classes and doing a thesis in their senior year. Andrew's thesis is on economics and the change in the work force from an industrial to a service-oriented society.Andrew's mentor is his father, Robert, an economist with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Henry P. Bowman, 74, who flew missions over North Africa and Italy during World War II as one of the Tuskegee airmen and who broke racial barriers as a black sports official in the Big 10 after the war, died of heart disease Sept. 16 at his home in Los Angeles.Besides his achievements as a fighter pilot and sports official, which led to appearances in three films, he had a long career as a personnel executive. He retired in 1962 as a captain in the Air Force, and he held positions with the University of Illinois and Hilton Corp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A day after the College Board notified colleges that it had misreported the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT exam in October, an official of the testing organization disclosed that some of the errors were far larger than initially suggested. With college counselors and admissions officials scrambling to take a second look at student scores in the final weeks before they mail out acceptances and rejections, Chiara Coletti, the College Board's vice president for public affairs, said that 16 students out of the 495,000 who took the October exam had scores that should have been more than 200 points higher.

Kayla DesPortes, Atholton Sport Basketball GIRLS STATS -- The senior forward is a team captain and two-year starter for the Raiders. DesPortes brings quickness and smart play to the Raiders, averaging just under 10 points a game. Coach Maureen Shacreaw called her the team's best defensive player, as she's always asked to guard the opponent's top offensive threat. SIDELINES -- DesPortes also has played soccer and lacrosse and she ran track at Atholton. DesPortes has a 3.9 grade point average and is considering the University of Pennsylvania with plans of studying pre-law.