Urges Other States to Adopt Safeguards Against Self-Referral WASHINGTON, Jan.

By Danny Jacobs Testimony from a vocational expert is not required in an appeal of a Workers' Compensation Committee award, the Court of Appeals ruled last week in upholding the reduction of an award to an injured airline employee.

By Jonathan Bor and David Kohn, The Baltimore Sun May 1--While pursuing a public health degree in the 1980s, Mark R. Farfel visited a clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute where scores of lead-poisoned boys and girls spilled into the hallways awaiting treatment.

By Nicole Fuller, The Baltimore Sun Jan. 24--The state has filed criminal charges against a Baltimore judge, accusing him of failing to clean up hundreds of tons of construction rubble dumped on his waterfront property in Anne Arundel County, the attorney general's office announced yesterday.

For the first time since the Supreme Court upheld Utah's use of a firing squad in 1878, the nation's highest court is preparing to weigh in on the legality of a particular method of execution.