The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 2000:
GOOD MORNING, 2000 WE HAVE SURVIVED: THIS IS THE BIG, FRESH START
Jan 01, 2000; ... Let it be proclaimed: This morning, this simple winter morning,represents more than the beginning of a new age. It represents anaccomplishment for the ages. We have survived. And by doing so, we have warped the physics oftime. For the first time ever - this is a moment our ...
HOME HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY IS WASTING AWAY BECAUSE OF NEGLECT
Jan 01, 2000; ... If you are responsible for the care of an ill or elderly loved onein Massachusetts, there is some troubling news: Home health careservices that are safe and affordable are getting harder, not easier,to find. The impending shutdown last month of Cooperative Home Care - the26th ...
THE FUTURE IN BOSTON
Jan 01, 2000 ... There is no grand physical plan for Boston in the 21st century,certainly nothing akin to the "City Beautiful" movement that soughtto promote urban centers as gleaming works of art at the turn of the19th century. No palm cards on election day will urge a "Bigger,Better, Busier Boston," ...
LOOKING FORWARD . . .
Jan 01, 2000 ... On New Year's Day 100 years ago, the Globe editorialized that itsreaders need not "fret at the behests of destiny. Prosperity smilesupon our land." And so it is today in this fortunate land at the dawnof a new century. One hundred years ago Americans were full of bumptious ...
. . . TO A NEW WORLD
Jan 01, 2000 ... Young Germans smashing the Berlin Wall with sledgehammers createdone of the pivotal images of the 20th century, but no wall will besafe in the 21st. Last night public television and the networks delighted incarrying New Year's ceremonies worldwide as midnight struck in 24time ...
RETHINKING THE CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENCE
Jan 01, 2000; ... What is likely to happen to the concept of intelligence in the newmillennium? As a longtime researcher in the area of intelligence andas the creator of the theory of multiple intelligences, I anticipatefour principal struggles. BREADTH. I have proposed that human beings are best ...
KANSAS STATE CLOSES THE GAP SECOND OF TWO PARTS)
Jan 01, 2000; ... It is not yet time to remove Kansas State University from theendangered brains list, but it deserves some recognition forbeginning the long climb out of the toxic dump otherwise known as itsfootball team. In my 1996 Graduation Gap Bowl, this emerging national power had a7 percent ...
HO HUM, A MILLENNIUM
Jan 01, 2000 ... Measuring the time from the birth of a man who many people thinkwas a god, 2,000 years seems like a long time, but from theperspective of the true age of the universe, it really isn't such along time at all. Space and time began around 13 billion years ago, give or take ...
BILL RUSSELL DESERVED SPOT AS NO. 1 ATHLETE
Jan 01, 2000 ... Selecting Bill Russell as the No. 2 athlete in Boston for thecentury ("Titles prove he's the won," Sports, Dec. 30) and TedWilliams as the No. 1 athlete is ridiculous. Baseball was and is my passion. I am a huge Red Sox fan and thinkthe world of Teddy Ballgame, the greatest hitter ...
BIGGER PROBLEMS COMING FOR WORLD'S E-ECONOMY
Jan 01, 2000 ... As the forecasters, technicians, analysts, and politicians poreover Y2K concerns, the critical issue of the e-commerceinfrastructure - the "e-frastructure" - has gone largely unnoticed,even though it carries the potential of far greater impact. Y2K is a problem that has been ...
Y2K BUG GETS THE LAST LAUGH
Jan 01, 2000 ... Y2K has been a jerk! My power's on, my autos work. All the food I went and bought Is here and now will surely rot. My phone is charged and cells work fine. Our market's bare, there is no line. There was no dark, nor cold, nor tears. My ...
PRINCE HENRY EVEN MORE PIVOTAL THAN COLUMN SAID
Jan 01, 2000 ... Derrick Jackson's choice of Prince Henry the Navigator as apivotal figure of the millennium (op ed, Dec. 20) was a pleasantsurprise. But Jackson's article tells only part of the story. Prince Henry was indeed the father of the African slave trade, buthe was a good deal more than ...
LOOKING THROUGH THE REARVIEW MIRROR
Jan 01, 2000; ... OK, so I was off on the euro. I thought the new European currency launched last January wasgoing to fly. Well, it flew - not straight down, but at a prettysteep angle. Let me just say that the euro dove at a sharper anglethan I like to ski at. From a high right after launch ...
INTO THE MIND OF BEASTS
Jan 01, 2000; ... What a millennium this is going to be! Fasten your seat belts,animal lovers, because this thousand years is launching with a boomin books and TV shows concerned with animal minds, emotions, andstatus. Steven M. Wise's provocative "Rattling the Cage: Toward LegalRights for ...
LOOKING BACK AT THE 21ST CENTURY
Jan 01, 2000; ... AT THE BEGINING OF A NEW YEAR AND A NEW CENTURY, WE ASKED 10PEOPLE EACH BORN IN A DIFFERENT DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY TO TELL USWHAT LIFE WILL BE LIKE A CENTURY FROM NOW. THE QUESTIONS CONCERNEDMATTERS AS TRIVAIL AS THE FATE OF BARBIE AND PROFOUND AS THE NATUREOF GOD. Lou ...
HIKE AWAY THOSE HOLIDAY POUNDS
Jan 01, 2000; ... You can climb out of that thick holiday daze, breathe some freshair, and take in some beautiful views during the "First Day Hike"today at the Blue Hills Reservation. MDC park rangers and the staffof Blue Hills Trailside Museum will be leading groups through thereservation and around ...
FAMILY DATEBOOK
Jan 01, 2000; ... A number of well-known Haitian musicians, including Gene RobertTemestocle, will perform tomorrow at the Strand Theatre in Dorchesteras part of the Haitian Gospel Music Festival. The show starts at 7p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. For ticketinformation, call ...
JAPAN SAID TO BE AIDING THE ENEMY CONNER SHOUTS DISAPPROVAL
Jan 01, 2000; ... AUCKLAND, New Zealand - The Ghost of America's Cups past stalkedthe waterfront Thursday. Long before a gun sounded on Hauraki Gulf to begin the semifinalround of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the series began with a familiarlurch into rancor and discord among the sailing teams. The ...
A LIST HIGHLIGHTING DIM MOMENTS
Jan 01, 2000; ... Juan Pablo Davila is not a name that shows up on most end-of-the-century highlight lists. A trader for the Chilean-owned Codelco Co.,Davila lost more than $170 million in 1994 when he reportedly madethe mistake of typing "buy" instead of "sell" while tradingcommodities over the ...
FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF `HAPPY FACE
Jan 01, 2000; ... There's a great story buried in "Dick Van Dyke: Putting On a HappyFace," A&E's shapeless two-hour biography premiering tomorrow at 8 p.m. Properly pruned and focused, this might havebeen a layered drama about the pathos under the comic mask, theemotional pain beneath the ...
STAMPEDED EAGLES ARE BOWLED OVER BY BUFFALOES' 45-POINT FIRST HALF
Jan 01, 2000; ... TUCSON - Boston College's first bowl game in five years beganominously enough when the University of Colorado's mascot, a buffalonamed Ralphie IV, was released from her holding pen at the south endof Arizona Stadium and taken by her handlers for a romp around thefield just before ...
FESTIVITY IS SALT IN WOUNDS AS IF GAME WEREN'T PAINFUL ENOUGH . . .
Jan 01, 2000; ... TUCSON - The Insight.com Bowl, long decided yesterday byColorado's impressive first-half offensive eruption, was finally overand all that was left was for the bowl officials to dole out thehardware. After a humiliating 62-28 thrashing, Boston College'sfootball team was forced to stand on ...
HASSELBECK SWEPT UP IN IT WAVE OF POINTS TOO MUCH TO OVERCOME
Jan 01, 2000; ... TUCSON - Don Hasselbeck stood outside Boston College's locker roomat Arizona Stadium. He wore a faded maroon BC baseball cap and a goldgolf shirt with an embroidered BC logo as he waited for his son Timto finish his postgame interviews. "This was tough for me," the father ...
ALLISON'S SURGERY HINGING ON OFFER
Jan 01, 2000; ... WILMINGTON - Center Jason Allison expects to receive a proposal ona contract extension Monday from president and general manager HarrySinden and will likely have a better idea on whether he will havesurgery right away or nurse his injured right wrist through the endof the ...
BOWDEN NOT RETIRING KIND AT 70, HE LOVES JOB TOO MUCH TO CALL IT QUITS
Jan 01, 2000; ... NEW ORLEANS - The question came out as a "What if" proposition. What if Florida State beat Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl Tuesdaynight, won its second national championship, and completed its firstunbeaten, untied season? "What, exactly, would you do, Bobby ...
BRUINS IN FREE FALL A NUMBER OF THINGS FACTOR INTO 15-GAME SKID
Jan 01, 2000; ... WILMINGTON - The Bruins ended 1999 stumbling badly, 2-9-4 in theirlast 15 games, and they lost their last two in overtime. So, what'sreally going on here? It isn't just a blip on the screen. After an 0-5-4 beginning and now this latest skid, there are some key factorsthat can't be ...
CELTICS END YEAR WITH BANG DENVER WIN RENEWS CONFIDENCE
Jan 01, 2000; ... DENVER - For the final 7 minutes 38 seconds of the fourth quarter,Paul Pierce stole only one glance at the Pepsi Center scoreboard. Theforward waited until 45 seconds remained in the Celtics' game againstthe Nuggets before looking up to see his team ahead by 10 points. Sure, he ...
MEMORIES, NOT SCORE, WILL HURT MOST FOR BC
Jan 01, 2000; ... TUCSON - Yesterday's score was not the worst part, and frankly,the score is never what hurts most in games like this. It just looksthat way when you're watching on television. Anyone with basic cable service could have watched Colorado score62 points on Boston College. Knowing that ...
NHL ISLANDERS' ODJICK IS SUSPENDED FOR PUNCH
Jan 01, 2000 ... New York Islanders forward Gino Odjick was suspended by the NHLyesterday, pending a hearing, for punching Pittsburgh defensemanDarius Kasparaitis in the Penguins' 9-3 win Thursday night. Thelength of the suspension will be determined next week. Odjickreceived a major fighting penalty and ...
IS SILENT TREATMENT AT AN END? KRAFT MIGHT NEED TO RING UP PARCELLS
Jan 01, 2000; ... What would you pay to listen in on this conversation? In the next few days, the National Football League may very wellhave its own version of the Y2K bug if Patriots owner Bob Kraft hasto call the New York Jets asking for permission to speak withdefensive coordinator Bill Belichick ...
BELICHICK THE PLAYERS' CHOICE IF CARROLL GOES, PATRIOTS LEAN TOWARD OLD FRIEND
Jan 01, 2000; ... FOXBOROUGH - Who would the Patriots want as head coach if PeteCarroll is dismissed following tomorrow's game against the BaltimoreRavens? The players' choice is Bill Belichick, the assistant head coachand defensive coordinator of the New York Jets, though the sameplayers think ...
GLENN LOOKING TO STAY . . . AND FOR A LONG TIME
Jan 01, 2000; ... FOXBOROUGH - Terry Glenn wants to return to the Patriots nextseason and even work out a long-term agreement with the team, butunder one stipulation: Pete Carroll is no longer the coach. That message came from Glenn's agent, Jim Gould, who reiteratedthat Carroll had no justification ...
RILEY NOW TRIES AND TRUE EARLY VICTORIES WAKE UP SAILING WORLD
Jan 01, 2000; ... AUCKLAND, New Zealand - In the closing weeks of the century, DawnRiley seemed destined to make sailing's year-end list as the mostsignificant American woman ever to haul a mainsheet or spin a rudder. Two Whitbreads and an America's Cup women's breakthrough aboardMighty Mary in 1995 ...
CROSS-CHARGES CLOUD N.H. DEVELOPMENT PLANS
Jan 01, 2000; ... P ORTSMOUTH, N.H. - The Great Bog is a pretty tract of land. It ishighlighted by towering weeping willows, an island, and a freshwaterstream runs through it. It would be understandable for a proposal to develop the land todraw opposition. But nothing happened when a local ...
CMGI TO BUY ADTECH OF FRANKFURT PLANS TO RAPIDLY GROW NET PRESENCE OVERSEAS CMGI TO BUY GERMAN NET AD FIRM
Jan 01, 2000; ... Extending its growing Internet empire to Europe, Andover-basedCMGI Inc. plans to acquire Adtech, a German Web advertising service,the company said yesterday. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, follows a seriesof recent CMGI acquisitions and signals the company's ...
TRAIN SERVICE DELIVERS RENEWED VITALITY TO NEWBURYPORT
Jan 01, 2000; ... NEWBURYPORT - When a commuter train began chugging into this NorthShore community a year ago, it brought more than just passengers backhome from a long day of work in Boston. House prices soared; the local industrial park filled up; and newbusinesses brought new tastes to the ...
TUCCI JOINS EMC AS IT'S `ON A ROLL' AS PRESIDENT, TO TEAM WITH CEO RUETTGERS TUCCI'S JOB ONE: `DON'T BREAK ANYTHING'
Jan 01, 2000; ... Joseph Tucci sees lots of opportunities in his new job but doesn'thave any doubts about the top requirement of the position. As expected, EMC Corp. named Tucci yesterday as its new presidentand chief operating officer, the number two position at the Hopkinton-based computer storage ...
MILLENNIAL SLUMBER PARTY FOR Y2K KIDS TECH FIRMS PROVIDE DAY CARE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE TO HELP PARENTS WHO HAVE TO WORK MILLENNIAL SLUMBER PARTY
Jan 01, 2000; ... Many barely know their ABCs, but it's no surprise that thechildren are well-versed in Y2K. After all, they are the offspring of the computer technicians,software programmers, and Internet experts who were expected tocorrect any Y2K malfunctions. And as their parents worked around ...
UMASS MEDICAL LAB BREAKS GROUND
Jan 01, 2000; ... Ground was broken in Worcester for a $100 million University ofMassachusetts Medical School research laboratory in Worcester. The360,000-square-foot building will enable the school to expandresearch. Funding for the project came from $30 million from the 1998 mergerof the UMass ...
US INDEXES GO OUT ON TOP BULL-MARKET 1999 LEAVES SHARP CONTRAST BETWEEN WINNERS, LOSERS; INVESTMENT ANALYSTS PREDICT CORRECTED PERFORMANCES IN NEW YEAR INDEXES FINISH YEAR OF RECORDS WITH A FEW MORE
Jan 01, 2000; ... Major US stock indexes, which began 1999 looking back on globalfinancial crises and ahead with concern about the Y2K computersoftware glitch, set record levels yesterday and gave investors largeprofits for a fifth consecutive year. The absence of major Y2K computer problems as ...
YELTSIN'S FLAIR FOR DRAMATIC SERVED HIM WELL
Jan 01, 2000; ... MOSCOW - President Boris N. Yeltsin's startling decision yesterdayto step down and name Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acting presidentwas a fitting end for the man who helped bring down the Soviet Unionand led Russia on its stormy post-communist odyssey. Expansive and ...
NATIONS AROUND GLOBE UNITED IN CELEBRATION
Jan 01, 2000; ... Midnight swept across the globe and civilization partied, howled,kissed, drank, birthed, wept, slept, mourned, wed, prayed, hoorayed,sashayed, and did not end. In public space, private space, and cyberspace, amid loved ones,strangers, and newfound friends, citizens of the world ...
TEXT: `I ASK YOU TO FORGIVE ME FOR NOT FULFILLING SOME HOPES'
Jan 01, 2000 ... Text of resignation speech by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin,supplied by the Federal Document Clearing House: Dear Russians, very little time remains to a momentous date in ourhistory. The year 2000 is upon us, a new century, a new millennium. We have all measured this date ...
SOME REFLECT ON THE MEANING OF IT ALL; OTHERS JUST PARTY
Jan 01, 2000; ... Heading for Boston and the start of 2000, Brian and CassandraHaley were wrestling with a stroller - and the meaning of a thousandyears. Lined up at Alewife Station with their two little boys, Shane andLiam, the Haleys, like hundreds of thousands of others in the Bostonarea, ...
YELTSIN QUITS, MAKES WAY FOR THE NEW GUARD
Jan 01, 2000; ... MOSCOW - Russia entered the new century today with a new leader,as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took over as acting president afterBoris N. Yeltsin suddenly resigned yesterday with a plea for Russiansto forgive him for the shortcomings of his eight years in office. Saying it was ...
FOLLOW THE LEADER
Jan 01, 2000 ... Canada geese flew in formation under a cloudy, gray morning sky ...
JAILINGS PROMPT FEARS OF US GOVERNMENT HARASSMENT OF ARABS
Jan 01, 2000; ... The jailing of five Algerians in Boston just before the millenniumweekend has immigration lawyers and civil libertarians fearingantiterrorism hysteria will be directed at Arab immigrants. A federal probe of an Algerian immigrant allegedly smugglingexplosives into Washington from ...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON, VERSATILE MAN, IS DEAD
Jan 01, 2000; ... Elliot L. Richardson, the Boston Brahmin who as US attorneygeneral in 1973 refused to fire Watergate special prosecutorArchibald Cox, thus making himself a national symbol of politicalintegrity, died yesterday of a brain hemorrhage at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital. He was 79. Mr ....
BALLOT QUESTIONS GO UNCHALLENGED
Jan 01, 2000 ... No challenges were filed to proposed November 2000 ballotquestions as the state deadline passed yesterday, Secretary of StateWilliam F. Galvin said. Eight questions, dealing with topics ranging from the prohibitionof greyhound racing to a rollback of the state income tax to ...
MALL PLAN FOR BRIDGE SITE DROPPED
Jan 01, 2000; ... A controversial proposal to replace the old Northern Avenue bridgewith a retail mall has been withdrawn by the developer. The city has now completely abandoned the idea of such adevelopment, opting instead to demolish the bridge and replace itwith a new pedestrian crossing over the ...
THE CENTURY OF A LIFETIME BORN ON NEW YEAR'S DAY IN 1900, RICHARD EPPLE VIVIDLY RECALLS A LIFE OF HARD WORK, FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE
Jan 01, 2000; ... - Richard Epple and the 20th century were born the same day,witnesses to change that vastly altered one but apparently not theother. Although the century has been laid to rest, Epple celebrates 100years of life today with keen interest in a new era but reverence forthe distant ...
STATE BROCHURE GIVES DRIVERS AUTO INSURANCE DISCOUNT TIPS
Jan 01, 2000; ... In an effort to increase consumer awareness, Secretary of StateWilliam F. Galvin yesterday released the fourth annual brochuredetailing automobile insurance discounts. Galvin urged Bay State residents to make use of the discounts. To make the brochure more consumer-friendly, it ...
NOT A FLICKER AS UTILITIES SWITCH YEAR
Jan 01, 2000; ... For a man who just spent $40 million to make sure the lights stayon through Y2K, Boston Edison Co. planner Jim Ashkar spent a relaxedFriday in the company's control room. All efforts to limit the effects of the software bug in the regionbegin with keeping the power grid on line, ...
FAA CHIEF IN AIR AS AIR-TRAFFIC SYSTEM HITS 2000 UNEVENTFULLY
Jan 01, 2000; ... ON BOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 1099 - Wearing a navy pants suitwith a single strand of pearls and showing absolutely no trepidation,Jane F. Garvey, the nation's top aviation official, sat in the firstrow of the coach section on board American Airlines flight 1099yesterday, so she ...
AROUND WORLD, FEW INCIDENTS ARE REPORTED
Jan 01, 2000; ... LONDON - Whatever 2000 becomes, initial indications suggest it isnot the Year of the Bug. Fears about the computer malfunction known as the Millennium Bug,not to mention terrorist attacks, turned out to be largelyexaggerated. While not glitch-free, the new year, new century, ...
LOW MURDER RATE LAUDED BUT POLICE HEAD SAYS THERE IS ALWAYS CONCERN
Jan 01, 2000; ... Around the country and suddenly around the world, it seems lawenforcement authorities are still cupping their ears to hear just howthe Boston Police Department does it. The story of the so-called Boston miracle, a multi-agency strategyhailed as a national model for combatting ...
WALTER HUNNEWELL, 82 WAS A VICE PRESIDENT AT GILLETTE
Jan 01, 2000 ... Walter Hunnewell, retired executive vice president of GilletteCo., died Thursday in his home in Wellesley. He was 82. Mr. Hunnewell was born in Boston. He graduated from HarvardCollege in 1939 and Harvard Business School in 1941. He served in the Navy during World War II and ...
EARLY WORD ON LINE: `WHEW!'
Jan 01, 2000; ... "Power on, Internet fine, dogs healthy, and beer still cold." After days of angst and uncertainty, that was about all there wasto the millennial madness on the Internet early yesterday, at leastaccording to Perry Morrison, a management consultant in Darwin,Australia. Exactly five ...
IN SOME RELIGIONS, JAN.1 IS JUST YOUR AVERAGE DAY SOME JEWS, MUSLIMS, BUDDHISTS NOT FAZED BY HOOPLA
Jan 01, 2000; ... BROOKLINE - New Year? What New Year? In ultra-Orthodox and other religious Jewish circles, the year is5760, not 2000, and it was earnestly marked, without pomp andcircumstance, last fall during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah. "We wished everybody a happy new year in ...
NETWORKS CAPTURE WORLD'S SENSE OF JOY AND HOPE AS YEAR TURNS
Jan 01, 2000; ... The global village shrank to the size of a television screenyesterday, as nonstop coverage ushered in a millennium that, as ofearly evening, had mercifully failed to produce any newsworthydisasters and instead linked the planet in a celebration ofhumanity's common culture. From ...
KING, GRAHAM LISTED AMONG GREATEST PREACHERS OF 20TH CENTURY
Jan 01, 2000; ... The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rev. Billy Graham wereranked among the Top 10 greatest preachers of the 20th century,according to a list compiled by Preaching Magazine. The No. 1 ranking was given to the late James S. Stewart whoserved for two years as moderator of the ...
CLASH DIVIDES HOSPITAL STAFF UMASS SURGEON'S SUPPORTERS SAY DISMISSAL WOULD HURT PROGRESS
Jan 01, 2000; ... WORCESTER - A four-year campaign to make the University ofMassachusetts medical campus a top surgical center is threatened by aclash between the chief executive of UMass Memorial Health Care andand the hospital's chief surgeon, according to the surgeon'ssupporters. The holiday ...
AFTER THE PARTY, NEW BEGINNINGS
Jan 01, 2000; ... Slowly the sun rose yesterday - over Auckland, Sydney, Jerusalem,the battered-but-unbowed Champs-Elysees. The world bathed in a once-in-a-lifetime glow, rarer by far than Halley's comet. The impending birth of a new era called for grand gestures, andthose calls were heeded: Boris ...
MOVE INTO Y2K GOING SMOOTHLY
Jan 01, 2000; ... With equal parts anxiety and excitement, New England and thenation awaited the arrival of the epochal year 2000 last night amidfestivals, fireworks, and vast efforts to stave off feared computer-glitch disasters and terrorist attacks. Locally, officials in charge of cornerstones of ...
NORTHERN AVENUE BRIDGE PROJECT IS WITHDRAWN
Jan 01, 2000 ... The city plans to replace a bridge over Fort Point Channel with ...