The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1996:
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1996 ...Q. An elderly relative passed away recently. As he was a veryprudent man, we are quite surprised that we can not find a lifeinsurance policy for him. Isn't there a clearinghouse on insurancepolicies where can I possibly find which company might have insuredhim?...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1996 ...Q. I remember a Burl Ives song about Eddystone Light. Where isit?S.R., BostonA. The fourth lighthouse to be built on that site, the beacon standson the Eddystone rocks 13 miles off Plymouth in the English Channel.The first lighthouse, made of ...
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
Mar 01, 1996 ... Debbie Rockwell (left) poses with her daughter Alexa, andJacqueline Plante with her daughter Sadie, ...
LINED UP
Mar 01, 1996 ...BayBank yesterday made available its HomeLink banking system.With the free product, customers can check balances, transfer money,make ...
ENTERING NEW MARKET
Mar 01, 1996 ...New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso (left), joinsAndy Ludwick, president of Bay Networks of Billerica, ...
Involvement with older man means trouble
Mar 01, 1996 ... Dear Beth: I'm 16 and wondering if it's normal to want a relationship withsomeone in his 30s. I'm really attracted to him, yet he's so mucholder.UNSURE Girls who feel either insecure or more mature than their age groupare sometimes attracted to older men because the men ...
Blue Cross to suspend plan's sales US probe prompts halt in Blue Care 65
Mar 01, 1996; ...A federal health regulator yesterday said Blue Cross and BlueShield of Massachusetts must stop selling a new health insurance planfor seniors next week because the company, by its own admission,submitted falsified documents to the federal government. Sidney Kaplan, regional ...
Different strokes of fortune Kasper applauds his club for its abrupt turnaround
Mar 01, 1996; ... WILMINGTON -- This was the Reader's Digest version of arags-to-riches story. On Tuesday, the Bruins were lamenting their performance in a 4-3overtime loss to the mediocre Edmonton Oilers in which theysquandered a 2-0 lead at the FleetCenter. Twenty-four hours later,they were ...
For IPOs, March will come in -- and go out -- like a lion
Mar 01, 1996; ...Move over college basketball fans. It's March madness time forinvestors, too. Ninety-six initial public offerings of stock should hit the marketthis month, says Securities Data Co., just shy of the one-monthrecord of 98 set in November 1983. The IPOs will have a combinedvalue of ...
Boston expands its work force Menino adds 1,102 jobs in two years
Mar 01, 1996; ... As the Massachusetts and federal governments have in recent yearsstruggled to cut payrolls, the Menino administration has headed inthe opposite direction, increasing the city's work force by 1,102employees in just two years. The growth, most of it in the school and police ...
Anticancer protein produced in breast cells, study finds
Mar 01, 1996; ... Scientists have found that human breast cells secrete a protectiveanticancer protein that is most active during pregnancy, perhapsexplaining why women who bear children early in life have a lowerrisk of breast cancer. The substance is made in breast and ovary cells under ...
UNEXPLAINED SHOOTING
Mar 01, 1996 ...Police in St. Louis search for evidence after a teen-ager waitingat a school bus stop began firing yesterday after the bus doors ...
GOP contenders campaign across South Carolina Tomorrow's primary is seen as a defining moment in contest
Mar 01, 1996; ... Peter S. Canellos, Bob Hohler, Michael Rezendes and Jill Zuckman of the Globe staff contributed to this report from South Carolina. The Republican presidential contenders fanned out across SouthCarolina yesterday after their raucous midday debate, ...
Canada warns it will fight US anti-Castro measure
Mar 01, 1996; ... MONTREAL -- As the United States prepares to take aim at alliesdoing business with Cuba, no country looms bigger in the cross hairsthan Canada, the largest US trading partner. But Canada warned yesterday that the intensified US campaignagainst Cuban President Fidel Castro may ...
Wesley flying high now Cleared for takeoff in CBA, he's first-class with Boston
Mar 01, 1996; ... WALTHAM -- He remembers the 7 a.m. wake-up calls and the 6 p.m.arrivals at the far outposts of the Continental BasketballAssociation."Whoosh," said Celtics point guard David Wesley as he imitatedthe engine noise of the rickety crop-duster that somehow got theWichita Falls ...
Oasis sneaks up on Ms. Morissette
Mar 01, 1996; ... Chart Central sends its hearty congratulations to AlanisMorissette, whose four new Grammy Awards nourish the aspirations ofmediocre warblers worldwide. Morissette and her "Jagged Little Pill"continue to rule the album chart and will likely get a further boostfrom the Grammy exposure. Cheeky ...
Fewer cholesterol tests are advised
Mar 01, 1996; ... "Know your cholesterol," federal health officials have toldAmericans for years. Now the American College of Physicians isadvising young adults not to bother -- at least not unless otherfactors, such as obesity and high blood pressure, put them at risk ofheart disease. The new ...
Residents of South End agree to movie complex Accord comes after year of wrangling on project
Mar 01, 1996; ... After vociferously resisting the project for more than a year,residents of the South End have offered a surprise olive branch tothe developer of a proposed cinema and retail complex at 131Dartmouth Street. The Citizens Advisory Council has finally agreed to allow thezoning ...
Merrimack still at a loss Facility, higher-profile schools are hindering Anderson's efforts
Mar 01, 1996; ... Merrimack coach Ron Anderson has a year to go on his contract, andpeople close to the college scene plus fellow coaches feel hedeserves an extension despite his club's last-place Hockey Eastfinish. Anderson, a product of Boston University, is one of the mostgenial coaches in the ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1996 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, early editions onWednesday misstated Sen. Bob Dole's performance in the ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1996 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story yesterday inthe Metro-Region section on the trial of John C. Salvi 3d reportedincorrectly that his ...
A sentimental skate On Gordeeva's moving tribute . . . and other observations
Mar 01, 1996; ... Some things I've noticed around the dial: - If you possess a heart, switch tonight at 9 from the Red Soxexhibition opener on Channel 68 to Channel 4 and watch the return tothe ice of Ekaterina Gordeeva in a tribute to her late husband,Sergei Grinkov, with whom she won two Olympic ...
N.H. driver held in death on Route 128
Mar 01, 1996; ... A New Hampshire man faces drunken driving and vehicular homicidecharges after the truck he was driving crashed on Route 128 in Newtonjust after midnight yesterday, killing a Dedham woman and seriouslyinjuring the driver's brother. Charles P. Lyons, 24, of Bedford, N.H., was under ...
Fairies charm in `Dream'
Mar 01, 1996; ... BOSTON BALLET In "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Glazounov Classique" At: the Wang Center last night. Program repeats, with changing casts, through March 17 The danger in making a ballet where the characters start noddingoff in the middle ...
Charges mark debate Negative ads spur angry exchanges at S.C. forum
Mar 01, 1996; ... COLUMBIA, S. C. -- The race for the Republican presidentialnomination boiled over again yesterday in a debate accentuated byangry exchanges about negative advertising, divided over abortion anddramatized by Lamar Alexander's accusation that Steve Forbes' "dirty"tactics had thrown the GOP ...
Dole returns to N.E. to prepare for Yankee Primary
Mar 01, 1996; ...COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Sen. Bob Dole's chartered 727 jet is aboutto land, its wings tend to tip from side to side and then, with ajolt, the wheels smack the pavement, bouncing the belly of the planeup and down. It is not smooth, and it is not pretty.Neither is Dole's campaign ...
Pair says state role minor in new drug
Mar 01, 1996; ... Two state researchers accused of trying to profit from the sale ofa drug developed at a state-operated lab said yesterday that thestate had little to do with the development of the substance and thatfunding and research personnel came primarily from private companies. In their ...
Town sees toxic waste problem as solution
Mar 01, 1996; ... FORD, Wash. -- Tucked behind towering pines, across a pasture andbeneath an osprey's nest, this tiny rural town harbors a lethallegacy: a man-made crater, 28-acres large and 70-feet deep, partiallyfilled with radioactive waste from the old uranium mill. The options for cleaning it up ...
Reinforcement for the Artery
Mar 01, 1996 ...A Virginia congressman who has frequently criticized the CentralArtery project convened hearings this week that could affect the fateof the undertaking. The Massachusetts officeholders, businesspeople and federal highway officials who testified deservecongratulations for defending the ...
Murdoch's timely offer
Mar 01, 1996 ...Rupert Murdoch's announcement Monday that his Fox televisionnetwork will offer each major presidential candidate an hour of free,unedited airtime the night before the election and 10 additionalminutes in prime time during the final weeks of the campaign deservesapplause. His motives ...
Demagoguery in India
Mar 01, 1996 ...The central dramas of India's public life resemble Americanobsessions reflected in a funhouse mirror. Indians, like Americans,are coping with political scandal, the ill repute of all politicalinsiders and appeals to economic nationalism and sectarian dogmatism.The particulars of these ...
Bill to boost services for elderly Measure would create one-stop shopping for home care
Mar 01, 1996; ... Valerie Bright abhors the thought of putting her ailing84-year-old mother in a nursing home. So over the last two months,Bright has taken more than 80 hours off work trying to arrange homehealth care, physical therapy, day care and transportation for hermother."It's ...
The Windsor knot, untied
Mar 01, 1996 ...Anyone fearing, or hoping, that the royal divorce will end theroyal soap opera hasn't been paying attention. Charles and Diana aremade of more enduring stuff, and the sun will never set on theBritish quagmire. As Winston Churchill once said: "Now this is notthe end. It is not even the ...
Jodie D. Etheridge, 23 Northeastern University student
Mar 01, 1996 ... Jodie Denise Etheridge of Dedham, a student at NortheasternUniversity planning for a career in human resources, was killed in acar accident early yesterday morning. She was 23. Born and raised in Dedham, Ms. Etheridge attended Dedham HighSchool and then Katharine Gibbs School, ...
GROWING CONCERN
Mar 01, 1996 ...Firefighters extinguish a fire yesterday on Blue Hill Avenue inRoxbury that started in the back of a Floral ...
Above succession fray, Flaherty remains cool
Mar 01, 1996; ... With Speaker Charles F. Flaherty at his side, House Ways and MeansCommittee Chairman Thomas M. Finneran launched into his remarksyesterday on the uncertain financial impact of a new bill. Then, heslipped."There is no definitive speaker," Finneran blurted out.It took a ...
Flat tax said to hurt home costs in Mass. Price drops predicted under Forbes' plan
Mar 01, 1996; ... Massachusetts home values would be more severely impacted than thenational average under the Steve Forbes' flat tax proposal, accordingto a study released yesterday by DRI/McGraw-Hill, a Lexingtoneconomic forecasting firm. The reason: This state has higher median home prices, ...
Justice Dept. cracks down on bankruptcy fraud 123 indictments announced, including four in Massachusetts
Mar 01, 1996; ... Sounding a warning bell, the US Department of Justice yesterdayunveiled "Operation Total Disclosure," a nationwide campaign to crackdown on bankruptcy fraud, and announced the indictments of 123persons on fraud charges. "Our economy depends on there being a trustworthy system ...
Gasoline additive poses little risk of causing illness, study reports
Mar 01, 1996; ... A gasoline additive that prompted complaints of nausea andheadaches when it was introduced last year in Massachusetts and otherstates poses little health risk, according to a major new study,although it makes people more sensititive to gas odors. The Cambridge-based Health Effects ...
Futuristic `Ghost' comes eerily to life
Mar 01, 1996; ... GHOST IN THE SHELL Animation directed by: Mamoru Oshii Screenplay by: Kazunori Ito, based on manga (comic books) by Masamune Shirow At: Kendall Square Unrated Lots of cyber-thrillers try to stake out the same territory as"Blade ...
Glennie brings `Landscape' to fruition
Mar 01, 1996; ... NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY WIND ENSEMBLE Frank L. Battisti, conductor At: Jordan Hall last night There was a standing ovation for Evelyn Glennie's Boston debut inJordan Hall last night -- a salute not just to her extraordinarystory but to an extraordinary ...
Stephen H. Glidden, 74 Longtime photographer
Mar 01, 1996 ... Stephen H. Glidden of Dedham and Franconia, N.H., a lifelongphotographer who specialized in taking candid wedding pictures, diedof pancreatitis Sunday in Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He was 74. Born and raised in West Newton, Mr. Glidden, who had no formaleducation in photography, ...
Margaret Hafferty, 89 Was teacher in Brookline
Mar 01, 1996 ... Margaret Ellen (Kendrick) Hafferty of Harwich, the first recipientof the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Award for excellence in teaching,died in her home yesterday. She was 89. Ms. Hafferty, one of whose star pupils was former Gov. Michael S.Dukakis, was born in Brookline and educated ...
Heinz car spotted in front of hydrant
Mar 01, 1996; ... Anyone who has dipped a French fry in ketchup would likelyrecognize the license plate: HZ 57. And anyone who has struggled to find a city parking space knowsthe rule: Fire hydrants are strictly off-limits, even for residentsof the private way known as Louisburg Square on Beacon ...
Guilty plea entered in heroin gang case
Mar 01, 1996; ... The gang called itself "Headquarters Block" and prosecutors saidit was one of Boston's most sophisticated heroin distributionoperations in recent years. Yesterday one alleged ringleader pleadedguilty to drug charges in US District Court. The gang sold heroin in Kenmore Square and ...
Hill Holliday gets $75m car account New dealer gives agency `momentum'
Mar 01, 1996; ... Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos, the region's second-largestadvertising agency, won the account yesterday for AutoNation USA, anew company that plans to establish a network of dealerships to sellused cars at "no-haggle" prices. Billings for the AutoNation account were not ...
Hood calls it quits in Charlestown 150-year-old landmark plant up for sale as dairy giant shifts production, offices
Mar 01, 1996; ... H.P. Hood Inc., a Boston business fixture for 150 years, willclose its last remaining operations in Charlestown this spring andhas put its 23-acre property up for sale. About 80 production employees will be offered transfers to otherHood plants or given severance packages, the ...
Bassist has a second solo album.
Mar 01, 1996; ...Matt Sharp, bassist in Weezer, echoed the sarcastic reaction heoften heard when people found out the Rentals, his "side" project,had a record deal: "Oh, sure, now the bass player gets to make arecord." No doubt Mike Johnson, bassist in Dinosaur Jr., might get a bit ofthat too ...
HOME AGAIN
Mar 01, 1996 ...Seven Jordanian prisoners freed by Israel after being held oncharges of military activities kiss the soil and pray yesterday aftercrossing the Allenby Bridge ...
Mary Joyce Kearns, 62 A retired registerd nurse
Mar 01, 1996 ... Mary Joyce (Meehan) Kearns, a former Watertown resident and aretired registered nurse, died of cancer Feb. 7 at her home inYonkers, N.Y. She was 62. Mrs. Kearns was born in Exeter, N.H. Her family moved toWatertown, where she attended St. Patrick's High School, graduatingin 1950 ....
Jean Smith, US Irish envoy, faces State Dept. inquiry
Mar 01, 1996; ... WASHINGTON -- Jean Kennedy Smith, the US ambassador to Ireland, isunder investigation in connection with serious breaches ofregulations, officials said yesterday. The complaints against Smith include a reported attempt to blockthe "dissent channel," a method by which US diplomats ...
Names: Baseball hits Belle with its largest fine
Mar 01, 1996 ... Cleveland Indians outfielder Albert Belle was fined $50,000yesterday, the largest monetary penalty ever given to a player, forberating NBC reporter Hannah Storm prior to Game 3 of last year'sWorld Series. Acting commissioner Bud Selig imposed the penaltyfollowing a four-month ...
Atlantic 10 reprimands St. Joe's Martelli
Mar 01, 1996; ... After the University of Massachusetts defeated St. Joseph'sWednesday in a game that included a controversial intentional foulagainst the Hawks, losing coach Phil Martelli ran up to the gameofficials and gave them a piece of his mind. Yesterday Atlantic 10 commissioner Linda Bruno ...
Advisory panel shreds MBTA's '95 budget as `smoke and mirrors'
Mar 01, 1996; ... A day after MBTA officials vowed personnel cuts to the tune of $38million for 1997, one of the authority's chief critics yesterdayreleased a scathing analysis of the 1995 budget, calling it littlebut "smoke and mirrors." In a 35-page report released yesterday, the MBTA Advisory ...
Terriers hoping to be terrors in NAC tourney
Mar 01, 1996; ... Boston University's basketball team has long kept a lowprofile. Even the Terriers' winning seasons brought only temporarysuccess and did little to alter the team's image. But that could be on the verge of changing as the Terriersenter the North Atlantic Conference tournament, ...
Guys and pols
Mar 01, 1996; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in this column. What's going on here? Billy Bulger strikes an entertainer's poseon the cover of his book, "While the Music Lasts: My Life inPolitics." And now, "Curley -- The Musical" is set to open at thenew ...
Panel backs use of new AIDS drug
Mar 01, 1996; ...GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A powerful experimental AIDS drug should beapproved for advanced patients because it appears to prolong theirlives, at least temporarily, a government panel decided yesterday.But the Food and Drug Administration advisers forced AbbottLaboratories to agree to study ...
Janitor sentenced in lawmaker case
Mar 01, 1996; ...WASHINGTON -- A man who used to clean former Rep. DanRostenkowski's office was sentenced to 10 months in prison yesterdayfor lying to a grand jury investigating the lawmaker's finances.Robert Russo, 59, of Twin Lakes, Wis., ...
Bail is reduced for accused youth
Mar 01, 1996 ...BARNSTABLE -- Bail was cut yesterday for a teen-ager accused ofraping a 14-year-old girl with a cigarette lighter and broom handle.Officials said Shawn Raasch, 17, and three others repeatedly rapedthe girl in Orleans May 7 after plying her with alcohol and drugs.Raasch's bail was cut to ...
Duxbury girl, 13, charged in attack
Mar 01, 1996 ...DUXBURY -- A 13-year-old girl was arrested at Duxbury JuniorSenior High School yesterday after lunging at a typing teacher with aknife. Police said no one was hurt when the seventh-grader slashedat classroom walls and a projector screen and waved the paring knifeat her teacher. She was ...
One person killed in Cape accident
Mar 01, 1996 ...One person was killed and others injured in a car accidentyesterday afternoon in Falmouth, police said ....
R.I. agency orders child-abuse probe
Mar 01, 1996; ...PROVIDENCE -- The head of the state's child welfare agency hasordered an investigation into his agency's handling of a family inwhich a baby boy was found lying in his vomit with a fractured skull.Jay Lindgren, director of the Department of Children, Youth andFamilies, said the agency, ...
Court says police may serve papers
Mar 01, 1996 ...Police and ambulance personnel may enter a private home without awarrant to serve involuntary commitment papers on someone who ismentally ill, the US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday in the case ofa Holocaust survivor who died of a heart attack as she was beingtaken from her Lynn ...
Man sentenced in 1988 shootout
Mar 01, 1996 ...Jimmy Soo Hoo, an alleged member of the Ping On gang who tookpart in a 1988 shootout in Chinatown, was sentenced to prisonyesterday along with two other men in US District Court. Soo Hoo,35, of Quincy, was sentenced to 8 years, 10 months on extortion,racketeering, gambling and attempted ...
Councilor seeks files on merger
Mar 01, 1996 ... A new wrinkle developed yesterday that could upset Mayor Thomas M.Menino's attempts to merge Boston City Hospital with BostonUniversity Medical Center. Councilor at Large Francis M. Roachefiled an order that, if passed, would require Menino to discloseseveral merger-related ...