Last week I was honored to have President Obama visit my science classroom at Parkville Middle School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

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The police chief of Baltimore County in Maryland, James Johnson, endorsed what he called the holistic approach urged by Obama to create a system that reduces access to guns for people who shouldn't have them.

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Twenty-five years later, I had made my way to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Bozzella announced that University of Maryland-Baltimore County coach Phil Stern is the new associate head coach, and that Lauren DeFalco, a coach for three years at Iona, will be one of his assistants.

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"The physical environment of the emergency room is famous for lack of privacy, for loud, confusing sounds and for very rapid and changing staff interaction, " says Dr. Thomas, a professor at the Erickson School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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For the Maryland Affiliate, this means continuing to raise money through two Race for the Cures, one in Hunt Valley in Baltimore County on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 and one in Ocean City on the Eastern Shore of Maryland on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012.

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