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(The Baltimore Sun) -- A coalition of 25 county, police, fire, education, health and social service agencies, CERN has provided Howard parents with admirably clear materials on creating "family emergency communications" plans, is leading a newly formed volunteer corps that will receive federal disaster training, and has brought together local groups to participate in a table-top disaster simulation involving a theoretical nuclear bomb exploding at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Thanks to backing from the Horizon Foundation - the local charity funded by the 1998 sale of Howard County General Hospital to Johns Hopkins - CERN's efforts are perhaps a half-year ahead of similar work in other Maryland counties.