WASHINGTON – Walking after dark in Baltimore City? Be careful crossing the street
From First-Aid to AIDS, A Doctor Reflects on Medicine in the 1900s
WASHINGTON – Marion Friedman was “a sickly child” in the early 1920s, when the doctor would drop by his house every week to check on him
Medical Advances Helped Double Life Expectancy Over 20th Century
WASHINGTON – Diseases that could be cured today with a trip to the doctor’s or a short hospital stay were deadly business — literally — in 1910
Hospitals Are Prepared, Promise Smooth Landing for Y2K Babies
SILVER SPRING – As if there weren’t enough potential Y2K computer problems already, Debbie Hagopian has to grapple with the possibility that she may be giving birth when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve
10 Fingers, 10 Toes, $1 Million? Not Likely, But Parents Dream Anyway
SILVER SPRING – Kenny Beath dismisses all the rumors his friends tell him, that the first baby of 2000 will win a free education, a $1 million prize or other windfalls
Millennium Moms and Dads Anxiously Await First Big Event of New Century
SILVER SPRING – Becky McDermott hadn’t planned on a millennium baby, so when she learned her first child was due on New Year’s Day, she was more worried than happy
Supreme Court Rejects First Amendment Plea of Frederick Double-Murderer
WASHINGTON – A Frederick County man who killed his parents cannot sue jail officials who he said violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to let him publish a manuscript on how to escape from a detention center
Sorority Sisters Pull Together, Push Away Cigarettes
COLLEGE PARK – On a recent quiet evening, 40 women are tucking into cheesecake at the Alpha Phi sorority at the University of Maryland College Park
Facing Death Focuses Hospice Workers, Family Members, on Meaning of Holidays
ROCKVILLE – Emily Ongiro used to have only one reason to celebrate Thanksgiving — so that her 6-year-old son could share the experience with his friends at school
Lung Cancer Becomes an Equal Opportunity Killer, As Women Smokers Increase
BALTIMORE – She wheezes a little when she walks, even the few steps from the living room to the front door of her middle-class Baltimore home