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Health & Science

Drinking age call draws outrage

Health, safety and transportation advocates denounced yesterday a proposal by more than 100 university administrators to reconsider the legal drinking age of 21 -- contending that any reduction would lead to thousands of additional drunken-driving deaths and other harm to the public health.

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AIDS in Baltimore
Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year working on this two-part series exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore.

Factor VII
The Sun investigates the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII.

1918 influenza pandemic
Nearly a century later, the people who lived through it and the victims' families still recall their experiences with the flu.

If I die
The Sun received permission from R.J. Voigt, his mother, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center to be present during the last four weeks of R.J.'s life, except, at his mother's request, his death.

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The 'bupe' fix
Promoted by the U.S. as a treatment for opiate addiction, buprenorphine has become one more item for sale in the illegal drug market.

Also see: Sun follow-ups to the series


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Baltimore Area Restaurant Closures and Inspections

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