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A burgeoning worldwide market plays an important role in the sudden interest in irradiation.

Penny Troutner has an uncommon lament: "My son Marshall turned sixteen last September and we're trying to get him to get his license. But he says he doesn't need it because he doesn't see any point. There's no place he needs to go that he can't go on his bike."

Of course, the teen's perception of Baltimore is colored by growing up with a mother who's an avid cyclist, an owner of a bike shop, and the first chair of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee in 1998. But, if things go as planned, her son's experience may some day prove typical.

Senate Republicans Block Tax Increases for Big Oil http://www.examiner.com/a-792298%7EBig_Oil_Companies_Spared_Tax_Hikes.html
By H. Joseph Herbert,
The Associated Press,
June 21, 2007.

When Governor Martin O'Malley was sworn in this January, one of the first documents to land on his desk was the Maryland Transition Work Group's report on Maryland 's environment. The group was assigned to analyze the current state of the environment, then provide the new governor with a comprehensive environmental plan. The result was a grim assessment, followed by a list of fifty-seven recommendations and a whole lot of press.