The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1999:
SOCIAL SECURITY Q&A
Aug 01, 1999 ... Q. Is a statement from your doctor saying you are disabled enoughto qualify you for Social Security disability benefits? A. No. Let me explain. The Disability Determination Servicesoffice in your state gathers your medical records, asks your doctorsfor specific medical information ...
Correction
Aug 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, last week's NorthWestWeekly story on attempts by the Kendall Center for the Arts to findnew space incorrectly said the center had signed a lease ...
Jockeying for equality
Aug 01, 1999; ... For Bob Kittredge of Newton, who calls himself "a sensitive soulof somewhat advanced years," learning to use jock in mixed companywas a struggle. "I can now casually call a male athlete (i.e. a manwho wears a jockstrap) a jock with scarcely a blush," he writes."But the increasing use of ...
Focus on: 7/25-7/31 Serb sorrows; plane truth; mortal losses; Capitol gains; Woodstock unwinds; Tripp's turn; peerless brand; BHA fine; World; Bitter harvest
Aug 01, 1999; ... Fourteen Serb farmers, cut down with automatic weapons whileharvesting grain in the bloodiest incident since NATO peacekeepersentered Kosovo six weeks ago, were buried last week in a massfuneral. Just before the funeral in the Serb farming hamlet ofGracko, NATO detained 10 people in ...
Dining Out
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Naked Fish 95 Turnpike Road (Route 9), Westborough Telephone:508-366-5959 Hours: lunch from 11 a.m to 4 p.m., dinner from 4 to 10p.m. Monday through Friday; dinner only Saturdays from 5 to 11 p.m.;dinner only Sundays from 4 to 11 p.m. Reservations accepted forparties of six or more ...
TURKEY The Grand Crossroads
Aug 01, 1999; ... ISTANBUL -- Cruising down the Bosporous with Asia on our left andEurope on the right, I imagined myself midway on an ancient traderoute. The boat passed the opening to the Black Sea, where sailorshad carried timber, slaves, and precious metals from the Caucasus toMiletus, a city state on ...
Taking trains to rent cars is a sensible, fun way to see France
Aug 01, 1999; ... ANGOULEME, France -- In my time, I have driven through the highpasses of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, along rutted jungle tracksin Central America, and over potholed and surf-splashed coastalhighways in Newfoundland and Labrador. Not to mention a few tenseexcursions on the wrong side ...
All aboard for a luxury trip
Aug 01, 1999; ... Yes, there is still glamour in transportation. You won't find iton airplanes, where passengers wear jeans and glum expressions. Norwill you find it on buses or most trains. Note that we said "most"trains. Australia's Great South Pacific Express offers an excursion withthe kind of ...
The unaccomplished American We once learned skills that made us entertaining - that gave us `social capital.' Today, we don't make the effort.
Aug 01, 1999; ... Scot Lehigh is the Globe's Focus writer. It is an old-fashioned idea, but once upon a more self-relianttime, what you could do sometimes counted for almost as much as whatyou had acquired. In an era where entertainment took effort, accomplishment wassocial capital, and the ...
The jaws of victory A historian argues we could have won -- and nearly did win -- the Vietnam War
Aug 01, 1999; ... A BETTER WAR The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy ofAmerica's Last Years in Vietnam By Lewis Sorley. Harcourt Brace. 507pp. Illustrated. $28. Michael Uhl lives and writes in Maine; heserved in Vietnam with the 11th Infantry as a first lieutenant ofmilitary ...
SHORT TAKES
Aug 01, 1999; ... BROKE HEART BLUES By Joyce Carol Oates. Dutton. 384 pp. $24.95.Barbara Fisher is a freelance critic who lives in New York. The collective yearnings of an American town are beautifullycaptured in this tale of passion. Vivid in the communal memories ofthe town are John Reddy Heart ...
SENIORS ARE ON THE GO And tour operators are rushing to meet their demands
Aug 01, 1999; ... All I wanted was a cup of coffee; what I also received was a doseof senior power. The Burger King just off Route 2 in Greenfield, Mass., was mylast chance for coffee before hitting Interstate 91, heading toBennington, Vt. I said "coffee," and the cashier replied "seniorspecial." ...
ROXBURY
Aug 01, 1999; ... Transactions chosen at random from records gathered from municipal assessors by Banker & Tradesman, a weekly Boston real estate andbanking journal. Search for recent home sales in your community onthe World Wide Web at http://www.boston.com and use the keyword"Banker & Tradesman." ...
10 for the Road
Aug 01, 1999; ... You can plan now to attend these events, all of which will occurwithin a few weeks and are within a day's drive of Boston. 1. Sheepdog trials Aug. 21-22 Cooperstown, N.Y. Leatherstocking Sheep DogHerding Trials test the agility, training, and intelligence of about130 working border ...
The story of Ukraine, grieved and redeemed
Aug 01, 1999; ... A Journey Through the History of Ukraine By Anna Reid. Westview.258 pp. $25. Askold Melnyczuk is the author of "What Is Told" andthe editor of Agni Review. In August 1991, when the Ukrainian Parliament voted forindependence from Moscow, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was ...
The triumph that wasn't John Singer Sargent's `Triumph of Religion,' unfinished, marked the changing taste in public art
Aug 01, 1999; ... PAINTING RELIGION IN PUBLIC John Singer Sargent's "Triumph ofReligion" at the Boston Public Library By Sally M. Promey.Princeton University Press. 365 pp. Illustrated. $45. ChristineTemin writes about the visual arts for the Globe. In 1893, the painter John Singer Sargent signed ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Last Sunday's review of Humphrey Carter's "DennisPotter: A Biography" said that the novelist Philip Marlow in Potter's"The ...
Free to Fly - as far as the rules allow
Aug 01, 1999; ... Matthew Brelis covers aviation for the Globe. In the wake of the fatal crash of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s airplanenear Martha's Vineyard last month, his judgment -- specifically, hisdecision to fly on a hazy night with less-than-ideal visibility --has been questioned. It is true ...
On the male of the species, and the delight of his vanity
Aug 01, 1999; ... Katherine A. Powers, a writer and critic, lives in Cambridge. Hercolumn appears on alternate Sundays. I hear all the time, from a certain party in whose company Idelight, that the only people we are permitted to make fun of inthese enlightened times are men. As the person in ...
The yanquis face 115,000 foes US meets Mexico today in semifinals
Aug 01, 1999; ... MEXICO CITY -- So, what's the big deal? "The Star-SpangledBanner" is going to be drowned out by a waterfall of whistles. Theyanquis are going to be hooted at, pelted with coins, and told to gohome. Just like when they play the Mexicans in Los Angeles. "Evenwhen we're playing at home, ...
Maine's the place to grow up, or to be a grown-up
Aug 01, 1999; ... PORTLAND -- That bald ex-wrestler in the feather boa and the eyemakeup gets headlines as Minnesota's third-party governor, but themost effective independent operator in the political game today maybe a lanky, laid-back, mustachioed technocrat up the road in ...
THREE LITTLE KIDS
Aug 01, 1999 ... Michael Fenlon and his big brother, Matthew, get close to a goatat the Stone Zoo's new touchable barnyard exhibit ....
Take steps to avoid a dangerous fall
Aug 01, 1999; ... Nancy Boland Johnson reports on senior affairs for regionalnewspapers and radio. Each year, thousands of elders are disabled, sometimespermanently, by falls that result in broken bones. Falls areresponsible for almost 50 percent of accidental deaths. "Most of the time, falls ...
Fresh art brightens city's stale areas Consortium attempts to rekindle interest in Lawrence's fringe
Aug 01, 1999; ... LAWRENCE -- Inside the first floor of the Everett Mill building inLawrence, Terry Bastian stands amid columns of leftover fabricspools, remnants of production at the nearby Malden Mills plant. The North Reading artist has sawed down these towering whitestructures and crafted them ...
Flowers look delicious in August, and they may just be
Aug 01, 1999; ... Ruth S. Foster has been a landscape consultant in the Boston areafor many years. August is the lazy season in the backyard garden, a time to muse,to dream, to sit with a cool drink and a fan, and just vegetate.The famous philosopher Rene Descartes said, "I think, therefore ...
Lawrence gives pupils leg up in College Prep
Aug 01, 1999; ... LOWELL -- It's easy to identify the 150 Lawrence students inUniversity of Massachusetts classrooms and computer labs this summer.They all wear forest-green T-shirts and carry black knapsacksemblazoned with "UMass" and "College Prep." All entering grades 9 through 12 at Lawrence ...
Leave some bait for critters in the crawl space
Aug 01, 1999; ... Q. I have critters in the crawl space behind a low knee wall on mysecond floor. I can hear their pitter-patter. There are no holes inthe fascia or soffits that I can see. I did not see anything in thecrawl space. I put down D-Con two weeks ago. Now what? S.C.,Norwell A. As with ...
School officials, business executives, parents to meet on student alienation
Aug 01, 1999; ... IPSWICH -- In the wake of the recent killings at Columbine HighSchool in Colorado, and as a means of trying to figure out the howsand whys of student alienation, a regional symposium will be heldAug. 10 to discuss the creation of what organizers are calling"school culture ...
Perseids meteor is set for spectacular viewing
Aug 01, 1999; ... August is the month when the Perseids meteor showers scratch thenight with fire. Weather permitting, this year's shower should bemore spectacular than most, because, for the first time in 38 years,the peak of the display coincides with the new moon and a dark andmoonless sky. Usually, ...
Good mechanics are hard to find Electronics jobs more attractive to today's youth
Aug 01, 1999; ... In the eight years that he and his wife have owned Mass. Ave.Exxon in Boxborough, they've gone through five auto mechanics,according to Robert Piccirillo. "You don't see a lot of kids going into the field today, probablybecause they can get other jobs -- and better paying ones, too ...
He creates illusions from stone, steel
Aug 01, 1999; ... BELMONT -- William Harby makes rocks disappear. Or not rocks, exactly, but big quarried pieces of marble andgranite. Sometimes huge chunks of trees, too. Harby's eight-piece "Marble Reflections" is among new worksinstalled this summer on the grounds of the DeCordova Museum ...
Communities helping elderly to get about Vouchers, rides vary among towns
Aug 01, 1999; ... WALTHAM -- Nancy Beston, 89, still has her driver's license, butthese days she only uses it for identification purposes. Ten yearsago Beston put away the keys to her compact red Chevrolet and leftthe automotive maneuvering to younger motorists. She's not alone. Beston gave up ...
Coakley enjoying all facets of DA's job She defends decisions in high-profile au pair and Fagan kidnap cases
Aug 01, 1999; ... CAMBRIDGE -- She has presided over staff meetings, created andfilled top-level posts, appeared at crime scenes, testified athearings, spoken at seminars, addressed local officials, and marchedin parades. By all accounts, the last half year has been a busy time forMiddlesex ...
Meditation gives parents time to reflect with children
Aug 01, 1999; ... To flee the fast-paced life she leads with her two children,Sousan Abadian, 38, of Belmont flew off to Colorado with her familylast month for a respite from television and frenetic living and tohave more time together. "We are so caught up in the moment, and there's no time to ...
Boat program sailing along
Aug 01, 1999; ... LAWRENCE -- The Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program beganin 1979 on donated riverfront property. In the first two years,there were six boats and 100 members. Now, as it celebrates 20 yearsof boating on the Merrimack River, there are more than 90 boats and4,700 ...
Thrush can liven a lazy August day
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Globe's Mark Wilson is an award-winning nature photographer.His birding column appears regularly in NorthWest Weekly. In the heat and humidity of July and August, the woods around myhouse don't seem particularly inviting. In the high noon heat of the day, deer flies are ...
Tall tale behind her soccer success
Aug 01, 1999; ... Fourteen years ago, Martha Whiting was an eighth grader atWakefield Junior High attending a soccer practice. When the regulargoalie didn't show up one day, Whiting, the tallest member of theteam, was selected as her temporary stand-in. That started a goalie career that lasted 14 ...
Lyons denies report he was forced out
Aug 01, 1999; ... Registrar of Motor Vehicles Richard D. Lyons says that despitespeculation to the contrary, his decision to resign his posteffective next month was a purely voluntary one. "I was absolutely not forced out in any way shape or manner," theformer Melrose mayor said in an interview ...
Regional plan seeks to lure more tourists off the beaten path
Aug 01, 1999; ... Tourist trolleys climb crooked streets in Marblehead, and sweepalong Salisbury Beach. In Amesbury, a mural celebrating the town'shistory as a 19th century carriage-making center covers a commercialbuilding on Main Street. At Beverly's Cummings Center, steely old shoe machines, ...
Midsummer camp's a dream Much ado about Shakespeare company in Marblehead
Aug 01, 1999; ... MARBLEHEAD -- Shakespeare may have been big at the box office lastyear, but Keri Cahill was bitten by the bug long before. For a decade, Cahill, 34, and her company, Rebel Shakespeare,have been sharing a love of language and theater with kids at aspecialized summer camp. "I ...
Plan to renovate Salisbury Beach goes nowhere fast
Aug 01, 1999; ... SALISBURY -- A lack of state funding and stalled negotiationswith at least one private property owner on Salisbury Beach appear tohave derailed an $8 million project to improve public beach access atthe heart of the seaside amusement center. The lack of progress on the long-awaited ...
Summer's flowery thoughts
Aug 01, 1999; ... Ruth S. Foster has been a landscape consultant in the Boston areafor many years. August is the lazy season in the backyard garden, a time to muse,to dream, to sit with a cool drink and a fan, and just vegetate.The famous philosopher Rene Descartes said, "I think therefore ...
Officials are facing some heat about pool closing in Chelsea
Aug 01, 1999; ... CHELSEA -- It's a sad sight during a hot summer as theMetropolitan District Commission's only pool in Chelsea sits empty,cracked, and dilapidated. Since the MDC decided to temporarily shut down the pool lastwinter, kids in this cramped and very hot city are having a toughtime ...
Conference set on school `culture projects'
Aug 01, 1999; ... IPSWICH -- In the wake of the recent killings at Columbine HighSchool in Colorado, and as a means of trying to figure out the howsand whys of student alienation, a regional symposium will be heldAug. 10 to discuss the creation of what organizers are calling"school culture ...
Golden memories of the silver screen Many vintage theater `palaces' have lost their place in history
Aug 01, 1999; ... LYNN -- Before multiplexes, $3 sodas, and Monday morning's totingup of the weekend gross, the North Weekly region was awash inpalaces where movies were king. Their otherworldly names -- the Mark Comique, Dreamland, theAuditorium, the Strand, and the Colonial -- drew people into ...
Drying up fast, Ipswich River is target of study
Aug 01, 1999; ... Todd Richards, a biologist with the state Division of Fisheriesand Wildlife, sat in the middle of the Ipswich River one day recentlymeasuring fish. He didn't have to get wet to do it because here, inSouth Middleton, much of this section of the river bed was dry -- sodry, it was tricky to ...
Chelsea awarded $86,000 grant to improve home health, safety
Aug 01, 1999; ... CHELSEA -- It's an immigrant city filled with residents who areamong the poorest in the state living in century-old houses. Perhaps in few other Massachusetts communties is the task ofensuring the safety and health of residents in their homes such adaunting one. But with the help ...
Graffiti Man sses the handwriting on the wall
Aug 01, 1999; ... CHELSEA -- Here comes the Graffiti Man, chugging down the streetin his graffiti removal truck, towing an air compressor and 100 feetof ratty duct-taped hose. There goes the Graffiti Man, his licenseplate reading -- whatya know? -- GRFITI. The Graffiti Man's name is Rick MacGown ....
Coakley is enjoying her role as Middlesex district attorney
Aug 01, 1999; ... CAMBRIDGE -- She has presided over staff meetings, created andfilled top-level posts, appeared at crime scenes, testified athearings, spoken at seminars, addressed local officials, and marchedin parades. By all accounts, the last half year has been a busy time forMiddlesex ...
Beverly's Adams named league MVP
Aug 01, 1999; ... Beverly High's Nick Adams was named Most Valuable Baseball Playerin the Northeastern Conference. Adams batted .410, with 6 homers and32 runs batted in. Adams beat out Danvers's L.J. DeMaino and PhilNicoletti of Lynn English for the honor. The All-Star team consisted of pitchers ...
$50 million plan for Parker Brothers site
Aug 01, 1999; ... A local real estate development group plans to invest $50 millionto transform the former Parker Brothers game factory site in Saleminto a multi-use development of luxury apartments, a hotel, andoffice/retail space. Salem Riverview Partnership, a group made up of Melrose ...
In twilight, they play on Quirky baseball parks add charm to Cape Ann league
Aug 01, 1999; ... ROCKPORT -- To play right field at Evans Field, home of theRockport Townies baseball team of the Intertown Twilight League, ithelps to have a little mountain goat in your blood. About 200 feet from home plate down the line in right, the fieldbegins a sharp 45-degree ascent, ...
Who's What Where
Aug 01, 1999 ... George R. Moore of the New Hampshire law firm of Devine, Millimet& Branch has been chosen as the new president of the New HampshireBar Association, replacing Randall F. Cooper of the North Conway lawfirm of Cooper, Deans & Cargill. Cooper will continue to serve onthe bar's board of ...
Timing of meteor showers could mean bright display
Aug 01, 1999; ... August is the month when the Perseid meteor showers scratch thenight with fire. Weather permitting, this year's shower should bemore spectacular than most, because, for the first time in 38 years,the peak of the display coincides with the new moon and a dark andmoonless sky. Usually, few ...
Land values, taxes make it tough on lakeside owners
Aug 01, 1999; ... In Moultonborough, there are 32 acres that include 900 feet alongLake Winnipesaukee and another 900 on a small pond. It is a lovelyspot for, say, a small condo development with plenty of dock spaces.The owner wanted to sell. In Alton, on a bluff with views of lake and mountains, a ...
Increased recreational demands lead to worries
Aug 01, 1999; ... LACONIA -- The summer is hot; the economy good; boat sales aresetting records and nearly everyone wants to be on or in the water. Weekends at the Weirs, boats line up like cars at a tollboothwaiting to move down the narrow channel from Paugus Bay into LakeWinnipesaukee. On ...
It's the way Congress says thanks
Aug 01, 1999; ... Hank Nichols is assistant professor of journalism and writing atNew England College. He lives in Sutton. My friend Bob pulled into the driveway the other day, and he wasoff on a rant before his feet hit the ground. Bob's no shrinkingviolet in the best of times, but this day his ...
State explains enforcement plans in response to criticism from EPA
Aug 01, 1999; ... CONCORD -- The state Department of Environmental Services andstate attorney general's office are defending how they go aboutenforcing environmental laws, following criticism in March from theUS Environmental Protection Agency. In a cautious, 34-page response to the EPA's review of ...
Gas additive's reputation takes a beating
Aug 01, 1999; ... MTBE, the controversial gasoline additive that has the knack ofcutting smog while contaminating water, took a few hits recently,indicating that its future is questionable. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services requestednine days ago a waiver from the federal ...
Gore faces attack on water, in air
Aug 01, 1999; ... Jill Zuckman of the Globe staff contributed to this report. It had been a bad enough day for Al Gore's campaign, what withfending off all those questions about the Connecticut River gettingpumped up with extra water to keep the vice president's canoe afloatfor a photo opportunity ....
But, you still can't beat a day out boating
Aug 01, 1999; ... LACONIA -- It was a little cloudy and a relatively quiet midsummerMonday afternoon on Lake Winnipesaukee and still, at times, boatsstreamed through the channel out of Paugus Bay and into the lake infront of the docks on Weirs Beach. A speedboat. A personal watercraft. An outboard ...
Local market tight, expensive
Aug 01, 1999; ... William Medley shares a two-bedroom apartment on Columbus Avenuein Roxbury with two roommates. It is near Northeastern Universtiywhere he is a student. But while he describes his modest apartmentas "nothing special," Andrew Snowden, one of his roommates, calls it"a dump". Both ...
Quick picks Young readers can warm up to these summer selections
Aug 01, 1999; ... Summer is here and so are numerous picture books that reinforcechildhood images of the season. Books about summertime activitiesmay prove the perfect prelude to a busy day or a reflective finale atbedtime. Here is a sampling; check your local library or bookstorefor other ...
Kosovo justice -- on the German model?
Aug 01, 1999; ... Elizabeth Neuffer, who covered the Balkans for four years as theGlobe's European bureau chief, is the Edward R. Murrow fellow at theCouncil on Foreign Relations, where she is working on a book aboutpostwar justice in Bosnia and Rwanda. BERLIN -- Here, in the shadow of the ...
Polls are for pollsters, not forever, Mr. Gore hopes
Aug 01, 1999; ... If the latest polls are to be believed, Vice President Al Gore hasa big problem. While most polls give Gore a substantial lead over Bill Bradley,the former senator from New Jersey and Gore's only Democratic rivalfor the nomination, the same polls show him headed for a ...