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WASHINGTON - When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala. , months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains.

A U.S. Department of Energy official confirmed this morning the an extension will not be offered to USEC for operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site beyond contracts that expire May 31.

From the Section on Stroke Diagnostics and Therapeutics, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD ; Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Bethesda, MD ; Stroke Program, Department of Neurology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA ; Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Seton/UT Southwestern Clinical ... (more)

Journal of applied physiology , Vol. 93, No. 1. , pp. 77-84, doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00773.2001 The relative roles of circulatory glucose, muscle glycogen, and lipids in shivering thermogenesis are unclear.

Relaxing liquor laws, allowing for later last calls for bars and restaurants and allowing more nightlife businesses around Metro stations are just some of the solutions a Montgomery County task force is considering to pump up the county's nighttime economy.

Question: We've heard about the new online sales tax and the Ohio tax on services but I'm not sure... Vino Volo, which is derived from 'wine flight' in Italian, has a lounge, restaurant, tasting bar and wine shop in one location.

Sidwell Friends School is the name of an exclusive Quaker private school located in Bethesda Maryland and Washington, D.C. It is the school which President and First Lady Obama have sent both of their daughters since Obama's inauguration in 2008.

The deck was outside a Macy's store in Bethesda, Maryland; the victim was a construction worker.

One man died and another was severely injured in the collapse of a portion of a parking garage under construction at the Westfield Montgomery mall Thursday afternoon, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials said.

Fire and rescue officials say a parking garage that was closed to the public has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, Md., killing one person and severely injuring another.

One person died and another freed about four hours later after a section of a parking garage in Bethesda, Md., collapsed, trapping two construction workers inside.

Montgomery County fire and rescue officials say a parking garage has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, and at least one person is trapped.

Scientists experimenting in mice may have found the culprit: A molecule used by the heart is pulling double duty, sending a message to the spinal cord that ultimately produces that familiar tickle on our skin .

Under the microscope, they look like simple jacks, with eight spikes jutting out of a central ball.

Proclaiming that "it's time for the positive impact of Sesame 's educational content to be felt in schools as well," Sesame Workshop on Tuesday announced a multi-year partnership between Sesame Street and Teaching Strategies, a Bethesda, Md.-based educational publishing company.

Opponents of building the Purple Line along the Capital Crescent Trail will be out in full force this Saturday morning for the annual "Save the Trail" 5-kilometer run along the shaded trail through the woods.

Migraines and depression can each cause a great deal of suffering, but new research indicates the combination of the two may be linked to something else entirely -- a smaller brain.

There's a fungus among us -a hundred different species in fact-and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the journal Nature this week.

Fungi live all over the human body, but their favourite spots are the heel, under toenails and between the toes, according to a US study.

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