When the vending machine in our break room was replaced recently, I quickly noticed a revolutionary feature of the new machine: my candy bar never gets stuck. No more gripping the big box by its shoulders and rocking its tasty ...

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I used to hate football. I used to loathe Sundays when the television was commandeered for hours on end of what appeared to be mere chest-thumping male chauvinism. Then, one day, I decided to stop ignoring it and to start ...

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This morning, the Baltimore Maritime Museum and Port of Baltimore commemorated the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the United States Coast Guard Cutter Taney. The USCGC Taney, the last surviving warship still afloat from the attack ...

Well, it could have been better, but it could have been worse. Baltimore is the 46th safest drunken city in a recent survey by Men’s Health magazine. Not bad out of 100. The survey, which is being reported by KNBC ...

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With holiday shopping now hitting a fever pitch, shopping centers are doing everything they can to lure consumers and get them to stay and shop longer. Examples include the ubiquitous Santa’s Villages and traditional dressings of the season. Baltimore-based marketing ...

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No surprise here: a survey has found that the desire for work-life balance and the ability to self-manage were the reasons women wanted to start their own businesses. This summer’s Make Mine a Million $ Business survey sent voluntary e-mail ...

Comcast wants you to know that the “cultural viewing phenomenon” of the yule log will be available this holiday season, in HD. That’s right – through January 4, Greater Baltimore area customers can watch the yule log on their televisions ...

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We’re going to need more makeup artists in the future (high-def TV, you know). Financial advisors, too. By the year 2016, we’ll be crawling with ’em. At least, according to the Department of Labor, which released a 10-year forecast for ...

Even though the home team wasn’t victorious, the Baltimore Ravens may be able to find solace at the top of the cable ratings. Monday night’s game on ESPN averaged more than 12.5 million homes and 17.5 million viewers, the largest ...

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If you attended the University of Maryland at College Park, as I did, you might be used to defending your alma mater to outsiders after gameday riots or the like. But this is a new one to me: the blog ...

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