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Aberdeen salute ceremony hails MDNG soldiers after year-long deployment
More than 80 members of the Maryland Army National Guard Headquarters Aviation Depot Maintenance Roundout Unit assembled at Aberdeen Proving Ground Saturday for a Freedom Salute Ceremony, officially welcoming the unit home after its year-long deployment to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn from October 2010 to October 2011.

Inflated notions
You might say that Treb Heining has made a fortune from “inflated” prices. As a pioneer in the business of elaborate balloon displays, the 57-year-old has worked the Olympic Games, Super Bowl, on Broadway and at countless celebrity parties. The “grandfather of the balloon industry,” Heining also supplies Disney parks...

Reflections: Ironton attorney looks back
In his 92 years, Harold Spears has had what he calls “an adventuresome life.” As a WWII Navy combat veteran, Spears can remember seeing the American Flag raised on Iwo Jima when he was stationed in the Pacific.

Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World
The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the current ...

'Never forget the POW MIAs'
SPECTRUM/Kat Wells, director/secretary of the POW-MIA Forget-Me-Nots of Connecticut, reads the list of the state's POW and MIA during Sunday's annual bellringing ceremony, Jan. 22, 2012 in front of St. Francis Parish Center in New Milford.

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SPECTRUM/Kat Wells, director/secretary of the POW-MIA Forget-Me-Nots of Connecticut, reads the list of the state's POW and MIA during Sunday's annual bellringing ceremony, Jan. 22, 2012 in front of St. Francis Parish Center in New Milford.

The Week In Photos
This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come.

Keeping to the Cites agreement
MY last article waxed lyrical on the plight of sun bears and clouded leopards, two of many threatened [...]

Med School rug exhibition helps children
Afghan rug sellers arrived at the School of Medicine this week for a two-day exhibition to promote cultural exchange and children’s healthcare. On Monday and Tuesday mornings, the Zamani House of Heritage — a Virginia-based Afghan crafts business — exhibited and sold Afghan handmade rugs, textiles, jewelry and handcrafts at the Harkness Lounge in the School of Medicine. Part of the proceeds went ...