The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 1998:
Staying in sync with lips
Jun 01, 1998; ... `My lips are disappearing," a friend says, looking in the mirror.They don't look any different, to me at least. Maybe she thinksthey're disappearing because she's comparing them to fashion's latestword on lips, i.e., bigger is better. I switched on the TV the other day just in time ...
The word on clinical trials
Jun 01, 1998; ... On the Web is a monthly review of sites on the World Wide Web thatfocus on Health/Science topics. Matt Villano can be reached at:whaleman(at sign)tiac.net There is widespread public interest in taking part in clinicaldrug trials, but researchers often find it hard to get the word ...
SUMMER HOME
Jun 01, 1998 ... A swan surveyed its new home on Jamaica Pond before the fourthannual "Release of the Swans" yesterday. After ...
A Net gain for motherhood
Jun 01, 1998; ... As Audrey Orenstein proudly announced she'd "gotten my house allin order for the new baby," due Wednesday, something was noticeablymissing from the picture. Orenstein, who is 33 years old and livesin Needham with her husband, Jack, was many things on that particularrecent morning -- ...
Bridgewater man dies after motorcycle accident
Jun 01, 1998; ... A 48-year-old volunteer officer with the Stoughton PoliceDepartment died early yesterday on his birthday after his motorcyclehit a dump truck, authorities said. Robert W. Shaw of Bridgewater was airlifted to MassachusettsGeneral Hospital but died shortly after the 3 a.m. accident ...
Violent storms wrack region
Jun 01, 1998; ... Raging winds, hail, and blinding thunderstorms pummeled much ofMassachusetts last night, killing two people in a pickup truck inWinchendon, cutting power lines, toppling tree limbs, and threateningtornadoes for much of the night. With tornado watches in effect throughout the region ...
Highway hot line sometimes asks more questions than it answers
Jun 01, 1998; ... We tested out the state's new highway hot line recently. It's called Project Clean, but Massachusetts Highway Departmentofficials said it's OK to use it for other problems they need torespond to. Like potentially dangerous road situations. We were sailing down the Southeast ...
Martinez believes this win was too long coming
Jun 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK -- Winning is everything to Pedro Martinez, that's thebottom line. But despite being the winning pitcher in a 13-7 decision over theYankees before a crowd of 55,711 yesterday, Martinez left in thesixth when he lost a chunk of an 11-0 lead. He was happy that the Red ...
What's the deal with Wasdin?
Jun 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK -- For Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, this is notthe optimal time to be assessing the trade he made a year ago lastJanuary, when he sent Jose Canseco to Oakland for John Wasdin, ayoung righthander who was supposed to step into the startingrotation. While Canseco ...
Benefit walk
Jun 01, 1998 ... I've walked for cystic fibrosis for most of my life. The walk is6.2 miles, but you can take short cuts. My little sister has C.F. Iwalk to try to find a cure for C.F. Please take part in trying tofind a cure for this disease. SHANNA PETERS Grade 4 Kennedy SchoolSomerville Woman ...
BOOK REVIEW
Jun 01, 1998 ... "Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble" by Cynthia Rylant is about aboy and a dog that always play with each other every day, and they goon adventures. Henry and Mudge do wacky stuff. Mudge ate a snowflower, and they ...
A hyped Rivers is going global
Jun 01, 1998; ... What does it take to be larger than life? In the case of the Rev. Eugene Rivers, it takes an inborn savvythat is both manipulative and heartfelt. It's picking exactly thewrong battles with exactly the wrong people, realizing that winningis secondary to dogged persistence and a ...
Walter Silvelra Jr., 63
Jun 01, 1998 ... Walter Silvelra Jr. of Fairhaven, a former teacher, town official,state representative, and administrative assistant to the Housespeaker, died Wednesday at his home after a long battle with lungcancer. He was 63. Mr. Silvelra was born in New Bedford and lived most of his life ...
Diapers not only option
Jun 01, 1998; ... Over the years, Kathy Duffy, a 38-year-old school teacher inReading, tried many treatments for her severe incontinence -- pills,injections, exercises, even "retraining" her bladder. Everything helped some. Even so, she was always ducking out onher second graders to rush to the ...
A safer aspirin
Jun 01, 1998; ... Stephen Reucroft and John Swain teach physics at NortheasternUniversity. Aspirin, a century-old medicine for a wide range ofconditions, may have some competition. A compound, recentlysynthesized by Lawrence J. Marnett and colleagues at VanderbiltUniversity School of Medicine in ...
FINDERS KEEPERS
Jun 01, 1998; ... Priscilla E. Muller can remember the name, but not the face, ofthe man who walked through her door Jan. 26, 1995, asking her toauthenticate what appeared to be a centuries-old, gem-studded rosary. So many people bearing jewels allegedly recovered from shipwreckscome in asking ...
Semester at sea not always smooth sailing for students
Jun 01, 1998; ... The toughest moment of high school junior Sarah J. Adley'ssemester was not coping with pre-exam jitters or getting a bad grade.It was when she found herself clinging to a rope to avoid beingwashed overboard a 125-foot schooner. Adley and 18 other high school students sailed into ...
Star got by with some help from his friends
Jun 01, 1998; ... CHICAGO -- Ladies and gentlemen: May we present "The Jordanaires,featuring Michael Jordan." This wasn't one of those "MICHAEL JORDAN and someotherguys"affairs. This was one of the hardest games Michael Jordan ever hashad to play. He will be getting on a plane for Salt Lake ...
We like Mike, but are tired of the others
Jun 01, 1998; ... CHICAGO -- The NBA needs Michael Jordan, which is not the samething as saying it needs the Chicago Bulls. They were never "America's Team," not the way the Celtics orLakers were. They were always "Michael's Team," and it becameincreasingly obvious during this series that America ...
US needs gun safety board
Jun 01, 1998; ... David L. Rosenbloom is project director of Join Together inBoston. School will be out soon. For a few months, parents will not haveto be afraid their kids will be shot that day. News bulletins aboutschool shootings have become a regular part of parents' nightmares. By year's ...
An apology is not enough
Jun 01, 1998; ... Caryl Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University. The Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic teaching order withschools in 26 countries, recently apologized publicly to victims ofabuse at its Irish school and appealed for other victims in theorder's schools to come ...
Raving good time with neo-punks
Jun 01, 1998; ... WBCN RIVER RAVE Scott Weiland, Green Day, the Offspring, Creed,Soul Asylum, Semisonic, Big Wreck, Cornershop, and others. At:Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, yesterday MANSFIELD -- Anarchy in Mansfield? To quote the Sex PistolsJohnny Rotten, "It's coming sometime, maybe ...
Lalas hardly seeing red in rather calm return
Jun 01, 1998; ... FOXBOROUGH -- MetroStars defender Alexi Lalas claimed thatyesterday's game against the Revolution, his former team, was nodifferent than most. It was an away game against an EasternConference opponent below New York-New Jersey in the standings. "I had two great years here and the ...
Revolution scramble for tie, lose shootout
Jun 01, 1998; ... FOXBOROUGH -- Revolution coach Thomas Rongen continues to preachpatience but his team continues to falter. The Revolution scored a late goal to tie the score, 1-1, againstthe New York-New Jersey MetroStars yesterday, but lost in theshootout to remain in fifth place in the Eastern ...
Pareja will have major role
Jun 01, 1998; ... FOXBOROUGH -- Oscar Pareja doesn't consider himself a savior. Butthat is the role he might have to take on with the Revolution. Pareja, 29, who has played 11 times for the Colombian nationalteam, is not expected to have a work permit until after theRevolution's June 7 visit to Los ...
Sox, Vaughn explode
Jun 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK -- By the usual definition, scoring 11 runs in the thirdinning, the biggest inning against the Yankees in 55 years, andwinning by six constitutes a laugher. Then why wasn't anyone wearing a Red Sox uniform laughingyesterday afternoon? Because before the end of a 13-7 ...
Beauty and the brain
Jun 01, 1998; ... Chet Raymo is a professor of physics at Stonehill College and theauthor of several books on science. It was one of those blesseddays. In the morning I saw a tiger swallowtail butterfly. It was cold,or exhausted. I touched it. Later in the morning I watched a cowbird chick ...
Clinton may face a Starr subpoena
Jun 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- An aide to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starrraised the possibility yesterday of forcing President Clinton totestify under subpoena before the federal grand jury hearing evidencein the Monica Lewinsky case, a move that could lead to an explosiveclimax in the lengthy legal ...
Spring brings problems of placement
Jun 01, 1998; ... Matching students to the best teacher in elementary school is amore vexing spring ritual than field days or standardized tests. Parents huddle on the playground sharing kudos and horror storiesabout next year's teachers. Some principals welcome parents' inputon student placement, ...
Scholar-Athletes are class acts
Jun 01, 1998; ... Whether they scrutinize Hemingway or emulate Einstein or broodover Plato, and whether athletically blessed or just athleticallyinclined, every boy and girl rewarded with a Boston Globe/Richard J.Phelps Scholar-Athlete Scholarship radiates with this common quality:each one is absolutely ...
Running down options
Jun 01, 1998; ... The Patriots are raw at running back this season. Real raw. Infact, by the time this week's rookie camp and next weekend's full-squad camp end, the team will have looked at nine backs. Their combined NFL experience? Seven years.When rookie camp begins today at Foxboro ...
Animal instincts; showing Goodwill
Jun 01, 1998; ... What a zoo! The gloriously metamorphosed Franklin Park Zoo provided thesetting for Zootopia!98 on Thursday night, and the cheetahs and lionspreened for arriving partygoers as if they'd been rehearsed. Thebeautiful hyacinth macaw stayed on the arm of its zookeeper so itcould be ...
Massachusetts official tapped for Ulster role
Jun 01, 1998; ... DUBLIN -- Kathleen M. O'Toole, the Massachusetts secretary ofpublic safety, is one of five people expected to be named this weekto a commission that will recommend reform of the Royal UlsterConstabulary, Northern Ireland's police force. The six-member commission, which was ...
Hawkins's best-of bill includes a new winner
Jun 01, 1998; ... NICOLA HAWKINS DANCE COMPANY At: The Tsai Performance Center,Boston University, Friday Nicola Hawkins celebrated the fifth anniversary of her Boston-based modern dance company with a mini-retrospective: one work fromeach year, plus a premiere. She also marked the occasion by ...
Run of Bulls not over
Jun 01, 1998; ... CHICAGO -- They have never had to fight so long, so hard, and, attimes, so futilely, simply to take the next step. Their warts andblemishes exposed for all the world to see, their swagger reduced attimes to juvenile behavior, the world champion Bulls neverthelesshave earned the right to ...
Sixth man (crowd) key in Game 7
Jun 01, 1998; ... CHICAGO -- The Pacers learned a valuable lesson last night. Whenyou play a Game 7, you want to play it at your place. It's anarticle of faith in the NBA. The Bulls' 88-83 playoff clincher represented the 16th Game 7 ofthe 1990s. The home team has won 14 of them. Michael Jordan had ...
Not many kids show for New Kids
Jun 01, 1998; ... Material from wire services and other sources is used as well.Names & Faces can be reached by electronic mail at names(atsign)globe.com. Those former Dorchester teenage idols New Kids on the Block mightnot be ready for a retro-revival yet. Only 15 young women came toBoston this ...
MassCap seems to be on track
Jun 01, 1998; ... When Puerto Madero took to the track for the MassachusettsHandicap Saturday, John Murphy had the same thought as did many ofthe 17,754 fans at Suffolk Downs. Fan after fan thought what Murphysaid. "What a beautiful-looking horse," said Murphy, the owner of FormalGold who lost to ...
Why no educational remediation package?
Jun 01, 1998 ... Regarding the May 26 front-page news story "State hasn't plannedfor test followup," by Beth Daley and Jordana Hart: Not only has thestate not planned for any remediation, it has also not admitted thepossibility that the tests are invalid. Some observers who have seen the tests ...
John M. Luippold, 71
Jun 01, 1998 ... John M. Luippold of Medford, a retired machinist, died Friday atMelrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose after a long illness. He was71. Mr. Luippold was born in Boston, and lived in Medford for the past20 years. He served in the Navy during World War II. He retiredin 1982 after ...
The drug industry is ripping off America
Jun 01, 1998 ... FOR YOUR HEALTH I am 80 years old. I have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD), and a few of the other ailments associated with an agingbody. One thing I do not have is a slipping mind. I know greed andattack from a life and death industry when I experience its ...
The Constitution doesn't prevent us from asserting our will on gun control
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD In her May 24 news story about the Oregon school killings, EllenO'Brien implied that gun control isn't possible in the United States,where "the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution andfreedom is the essence of national identity" ("As ...
Names: Elway reported to be back next season
Jun 01, 1998 ... John Elway, who has kept coaches, teammates and fans guessingabout his future, has decided to return for a 16th season with theDenver Broncos, a radio station reported yesterday. Two talk showhosts said they have confirmed the quarterback will play for one moreyear. They said Elway will ...
Courts aren't biased against fathers
Jun 01, 1998 ... The third installment of the Globe's "Men on the Verge" (May 17-19) series gave credence to the notion of an antifather bias incustody cases. In 1989, the Supreme Judicial Court conducted agender bias study that addressed complaints by fathers' rights groupsabout an anti-male judicial ...
How to fix the managed-care system
Jun 01, 1998 ... FOR YOUR HEALTH The state Legislature has recognized that managed care hasproduced some negative side effects for patients. To fix the system,lawmakers should: - Prevent physicians from being paid more for providing less care.Some health-care plans pay physicians a lump sum ...
You want real protection? Get a gun
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD Another tragic shooting at a high school shows once again thatgun-control laws don't work. The day before the shooting, the Springfield, Ore., student hadbeen suspended from school for having a gun on campus. Gun lawscould never prevent this, as ...
HMOs' cost cutting is bad medicine, bad policy
Jun 01, 1998 ... FOR YOUR HEALTH Edward L. Burke, former chairman of the Legislature's Health CareCommittee, seems to suggest that withholding care is an acceptableway for health maintenance organizations to control costs ("Beware ofmanaged-care `reform,' " May 19). We disagree.No one ...
The simple, soft world of childhood
Jun 01, 1998 ... In her May 22 article, Elissa Ely writes about longing to spendtime in her toddler's world ("Waiting at the door of a child'sworld," op ed). Ely believes that her desire to linger at her child's day care isa longing to be again in the warm, fuzzy world of toddlerhood withthe ...
Student shooting spree doesn't belong on front page; Chicago newspaper did it right
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD At a May 22 journalism forum in Cambridge, the Chicago Sun-Times'sdecision to report the Oregon tragedy on Pages 2 and 3 was condemnedby journalists ("Chicago paper takes maverick role in coverage," PageA16, May 23). By not reporting this story ...
Poor Kip Kinkel? Oh, please!
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD In response to the May 27 letter, "Was anyone listening to Kip'scries for help?": Almost as soon as the shooting stopped in Springfield, Ore., thespin began. "Didn't anybody listen to this kid's cries for help?"Poor Kip is a misunderstood teen. ...
Setting solid standards for HMOs of the future
Jun 01, 1998 ... FOR YOUR HEALTH Allan Goroll and Robert Restuccia ("A strict regimen for HMOs," oped, April 27) are fighting yesterday's war. The problems that theyseek to redress through regulations do not reflect the evolutions,values, and strategies for our health maintenance ...
Schizophrenia is an illness, not a metaphor
Jun 01, 1998 ... FOR YOUR HEALTH Schizophrenic restaurants (Calendar, Dining, March 5, Page 5)?Schizophrenic Boston (Focus, May 10, Page C2)? If you read The Boston Globe, you might think that schizophreniais a metaphor to descibe uneven, mixed, or splitperformance/opinions. Of course, if you ...
Ireland's turning point may be tragic
Jun 01, 1998 ... Kevin Cullen's May 20 news story, "Ireland's Day of Decision --Turning Point" (Page A25), is excellently crafted and mostinformative. However, a few important facts were glossed over. For example, after reading this article, one would assume theparamilitaries and/or religious ...
Children with problems: The right intervention can help
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD We flock to megamillion-dollar movies where violence is the norm.Popular music is permeated with violent lyrics. So why are we sosurprised when the violence arrives at our door, or in our schoolyard? When my title was behavior specialist back in ...
Please turn inside for gory details and pictures
Jun 01, 1998 ... CAUTION: SCHOOL CARNAGE AHEAD John Ellis's May 23 op-ed column concerning the "excessive,gratuitous violence that permeates our society" does not go farenough ("The consequences of `carnage as entertainment' "). He mentions only violence depicted on television and in ...
KISS concert a Top-40 hit with fans
Jun 01, 1998; ... KISS CONCERT 19 With Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Sarah McLachlan,B-52's, and others At: Great Woods, Saturday MANSFIELD -- This year's KISS concert was not only a livelyspectacle but was dramatic proof of the new open-mindedness of Top-40radio. The performers sprawled across many ...
Where a pint unites Cypriot Greeks, Turks
Jun 01, 1998; ... Charles M. Sennott is the Globe's Jerusalem bureau chief. PYLA,Cyprus -- On an island divided by concertina wire and hatred, thismay be the only village where ethnic Greeks and Turks live side byside and manage to get along. The village is tiny, no more than a few hundred ...
Keeping the knot tied
Jun 01, 1998; ... I have a friend who says he and his wife have discovered theideal way to handle money and not have it ruin their marriage. "I earn it as fast as I can," he says, "and she spends it the sameway." It makes for a giggle at a cocktail party, but comments like thatare hardly a ...
SIDEBAR
Jun 01, 1998; ... The Wyndham Anatole Hotel, just outside Dallas, exudesextravagance. It boasts 240,000 square feet of meeting space, 1,620guest rooms, 13 restaurants, 10 original Picassos, and a basketballcourt that NBA teams practice on. "You could put the Marriott-Copleyin one of the lobbies," says ...
HOW & WHY
Jun 01, 1998; ... Q. We've debated this question in the locker room for severalyears. Should you stop working out or work out at a reduced levelwhen you have a cold? Does exercise sap energy needed to fight off acold? A.C. Needham A. A sports physiologist and a personal trainerwe consulted on this ...
Milton Hindus, 81; was author,
Jun 01, 1998 ... Milton Hindus of Newton, one of the 13 original faculty members ofBrandeis University and an award-winning author, died of a heartattack Thursday just outside the main entrance of the school. He was81. Mr. Hindus had just left Goldfarb Library when he collapsed,evidence that he ...
The sun never sets on Harvard's empire
Jun 01, 1998; ... PART 2 Second of four parts Globe correspondent Ted Plafkercontributed to this story from Beijing. On a windswept Saturday last fall, as Cambridge streets teemedwith demonstrators, Chinese President Jiang Zemin stepped to thepodium in Sanders Theatre, smiled thinly and delivered a ...
Expo markets sensory overload
Jun 01, 1998; ... ATLANTA -- For the three days last week that this city was themecca of the interactive gaming world, its biggest convention hallbecame the world's largest and loudest video arcade, ground zero ofthe Electronic Entertainment Expo. E3, as the huge confab is universally called, is an ...
Anti-gang group faces growing problems
Jun 01, 1998; ... Two months after black Protestant ministers of the 10 PointCoalition, Boston police, Catholic clergy, and a host of state andjudicial agencies launched a major anti-gang drive, the effort tokeep the nationwide Crips and Bloods gangs from expanding in the cityis just holding its ...
Non! Non! Mille fois non!
Jun 01, 1998 ... Acting Governor Cellucci may have meant no harm with his casualcomment about trade relations with Quebec standing above the questionof separatism, but the response among both French- and English-speaking Canadians shows clearly the need for unambiguous supportfor continuing unity in ...