Mahan Rykiel creates plan for Children’s Inn playground Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc., a Baltimore-based landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm, designed a new playground/park for children seeking treatment at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda. The first ...

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NEW YORK — Funding for startups fell 12 percent in the April-June period as venture capitalists poured less money into fewer deals than a year earlier. But the number of companies getting funded in the earliest stages of development reached ...

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In a recent Wall Street Journal article about the difficult job market for 2011 law school graduates, Dean Rudy Hasl of Thomas Jefferson Law School in San Diego said the following: “You can’t measure the value of a law degree ...

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NEW YORK — You can leap off a mountainside in extreme skiing, kick and claw to near death in extreme fighting and twist yourself into a pretzel in extreme yoga. Why not turn investing into an adventure sport? Professional money ...

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T. Rowe Price Group, of Baltimore, a global investment management company, announced the launch of its third emerging market bond fund, the Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund, trading under the symbol TRECX. The new fund currently has diversification across more ...

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While the city-owned Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel lost $11.5 million last year, development officials stressed that the loss is not coming down to taxpayers. “The hotel to date… has not lost a single penny for the taxpayers of Baltimore ...

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A long-standing argument in the investment community has been whether active management of a portfolio can actually produce better investment results than a passive portfolio. And with the volatility of the markets in recent history, this conversation seems to have ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. manufacturing grew last month at the fastest pace in 10 months. New orders, production and a measure of hiring all rose. The strength at U.S. factories suggests the economy is healthier than recent data had indicated. That’s ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the first three months of this year. Governments spent less, and businesses cut back on investment. But consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year. The result suggests ...

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The University of Maryland School of Medicine officially broke ground Tuesday for a $200 million, 110,000-square-foot cancer treatment facility that it says will be the first in the region to offer proton therapy, which targets radiation to tumors more precisely and results in fewer side effects.

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