The hospital recently began a pilot study with eight other medical centers, including Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and Ohio State University, to evaluate how to improve nutrition and what cancer patients think about food.

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In the ensuing three years, the HOPI program counseled more than 4, 000 people, prevented 1, 300 foreclosures, and reclaimed 300 buildings.2 HOPI has also been a model for foreclosure prevention programs now operating around the country, including in Baltimore and Atlanta and in Ohio.

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Forgive the fan who confuses the matchup between the Baltimore offense and the San Francisco defense with an Ohio State-Michigan game from the 1970s.

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In local elections in the United States, Democrats did well in mayors' races in the big cities, just holding San Francisco, Baltimore and Philadelphia and gaining Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio.

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