Safe Streets in Baltimore
Youth violence experts from Johns Hopkins take stock of
city-run program

Johns Hopkins faculty member Daniel Webster has seen
Baltimore at its brutal worst. The
associate director for research at the Bloomberg School of
Public Health's Center for the Prevention
of Youth Violence, Webster regularly observes neighborhoods
where guns are used to settle disputes
and homicides occur monthly.
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Reading for the 44th president
When Barack Obama is sworn in today as the 44th
president of the United States, he will use
the same Bible upon which Abraham Lincoln took the oath of
office at his first inauguration in 1861.
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Essential proteins found for final stage of
malaria
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria
Research Institute have identified, for the first
time, the molecular components that enable the
malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the
salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito — a
critical and final stage for spreading malaria to
humans.
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