Promises of a better day since Nelson Mandela was in power have been fading fast. This is the last article on the Baltimore Sun's series about the current generation living in South Africa.

Baltimore workers were suppose to be protecting a nuclear facility, but some workers at a Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plant are caught fast asleep on the job.

Students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County are beginning a five-day fast on Monday to protest the war in Iraq. The action is being dubbed Hungry For Peace. Several other campuses are staging similar fasts.

Maryland (IPA: /ˈmɛrələnd/) is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Southern region of the United States of America. It is comparable in size to the European country of Belgium. According to the most recent information provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, as of August 2007, Maryland is now the wealthiest state in the United States, with a median household income of US$65,144, ahead of New Jersey which had previously held that title.It was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution and bears two nicknames, the Old Line State and the Free State. Its history as a border state has led it to exhibit characteristics of both the Northern and Southern regions of the United States. As a general rule, the rural areas of Maryland, such as Western, Southern, and Eastern Maryland, are more Southern in culture, while densely-populated Central Maryland — areas in the Baltimore and the Washington Beltway Regions — exhibit more Northern characteristics.Maryland is a life sciences hub with over 350 biotechnology firms, making it the third-largest such cluster in the nation. Institutions and agencies located throughout Maryland include University System of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Celera Genomics, Human Genome Sciences (HGS), The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).