The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 2006:
FIGHTING SPRAWL WITH GOOD ZONING
Mar 01, 2006 ... GOVERNOR ROMNEY and Doug Foy deserve your praise for their effortsto coordinate the state's transportation, housing, and environmentalpolicies (editorial, Feb. 24), but you could not have been more wrongin claiming "the default position of homebuyers and builders [is] toopt for ...
ICY-WATER RESCUE
Mar 01, 2006 ... YOUR FEB. 27 article ("Pond tragedy is a reminder of uncertaintyof winter ice," City & Region) on incidents in which people attempt arescue in icy waters brings to mind the following mnemonic device:Row, throw, tow, go ....
THE PROFITS OF CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY
Mar 01, 2006 ... THE FEB. 27 op-ed by Kenneth D. Lewis ("Saving the best forphilanthropy") put forth practical stratagems for making corporatephilanthropy successful. All great ideas. I'd like to back up a bitand reiterate why philanthropy should be part of corporate culture tobegin with: I believe that ...
PROACTIVE POLICE
Mar 01, 2006 ... AS I READ the latest ivory-tower assault on "broken windowsstrategy" on proactive police work (Feb. 19, Ideas), I had to wonderwhy a policing philosophy that seems to be working on the streets hasbecome the subject of yet another study on its effectiveness? As a sergeant with the ...
ROCKERS WITH HEARTS ON THEIR SLEEVES
Mar 01, 2006; ... To judge from its headlining set at Bill's Bar on Friday, hostedby WFNX 101.7's music show "New England Product, the stars arealigning for local indie-rock quartet Aberdeen City. Attendance hadwaned by the time the band played at midnight, but the good-sizecrowd that remained was smitten ...
STACKING THEM UP
Mar 01, 2006 ... Five Globe staff members blind-tasted seven packaged supermarketbagels, all plain, three bought frozen, and all heated in an oven butnot toasted. The winner, Ray's New York Bagels, was the most deeplycolored and chewiest, but a Stop & Shop brand came in a close second.Most of the others ...
BIRD SIGHTINGS
Mar 01, 2006 ... Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts AudubonSociety. A yellow-headed blackbird was discovered yesterday within a flockof roughly 450 red-winged blackbirds near the model airplane field onthe east side of Scotland Street in West Bridgewater. In Salisbury ...
A BRACING TALE OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THE SEA
Mar 01, 2006; ... In early 1864, at the height of the Civil War, so successful hadConfederate commerce raiders been at destroying Union merchant shipsthat the Confederacy's agent in London was reporting to the South'snavy secretary, "There really seems nothing for our ships to do nowupon the open ...
PARISIAN DISHES YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE AT HOME
Mar 01, 2006; ... French country and regional cooking may have made repeated foraysinto American home kitchens, but for many the mere mention of Parisconjures up an aura of perfectionism. The search for the perfectbrandade de morue is, to our minds, like the search for a Parisianbaguette. Regrettably, ...
NO MORE TAKEOUT: THE KIDS ARE COOKING DINNER
Mar 01, 2006; ... NEWTON HIGHLANDS Susan Weiman's Food Network "junkie" daughterSarah, 12, is exercising her love of cooking in Rising Stars, anevening class especially for teenagers, where tomato soup withParmesan crostini and mixed greens with strawberry vinaigrette are onthe menu. Instructor Jo ...
CONCERT UPDATE
Mar 01, 2006 ... The Hazel Dickens Band March 4 performance at the NationalHeritage Museum has been canceled. The Sounds with Morningwood at Avalon April 14. Tickets $15, onsale Saturday at 10 a.m. Toots and the Maytals at Avalon April 19. Tickets $22.50, on saleSaturday at 10 ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Mar 01, 2006; ... American Idol 8 p.m., Channel 25 Harry Potter, Fred Savage, and Gray Top return for boy's night. Cash in the Attic 9 p.m., BBC America It's a lot better than junk in the trunk. The fifth season begins. Lost 9 p.m., Channel 5 Claire seeks a cure for her ...
TOWN'S HISTORY IS SET IN STONE
Mar 01, 2006; ... DORSET, Vt. Seventy-five years before Californians struck gold,Vermonters tapped a mother lode of something almost as valuable. TheDorset marble seam, which protruded like snowbanks in places, ranfrom the state's southwest corner to the Canadian border. Between the 1780s and the ...
HOME IS NOT SO SWEET IN FOX'S `FREE RIDE'
Mar 01, 2006; ... You can go home again after college. But while you might not payrent to your parents, you'll probably pay a high psychic toll.Nothing comes for free on the highway of life, except, of course,traffic. In Fox's ironically titled sitcom "Free Ride," an Everygrad namedNate Stahlings ...
NO BOARD, BUT THESE NEW FOOD TRIVIA GAMES ARE FUN
Mar 01, 2006; ... Which fictional character ate sea turtle meat, preserves of seacucumber, cream from whale's milk, and sea anemone marmalade? What'sthe state muffin of Massachusetts? Trivial Pursuit has been quizzing players on such topics as "StarWars," "Saturday Night Live," and pop culture since ...
IN THE MARKET
Mar 01, 2006; ... What they are: Brought to this country from England in the 1600s,varieties of parsnips range from long and tapered to fat and stubby.These white roots are thought to improve the longer they stay in theground, because the cold weather converts the starches to sugar andintensifies their ...
A MIX OF SPICY AND SWEET
Mar 01, 2006; ... The earthiness of winter baking sets it apart from spring'ssweetness and light. The season built on bittersweet chocolate, nuts,dried fruit, apples, pears, and spice is also when classic crinkledand crunchy molasses cookies are welcome in the kitchen. These flats are made from a ...
OPERA BOSTON UNVEILS ITS 2006-'07 SEASON
Mar 01, 2006; ... Opera Boston has announced that it will present three operasduring its 2006-'07 season: Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito," "The Riseand Fall of the City of Mahagonny" by Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht,and Bizet's "Le Pecheurs de Perles" ("The Pearl Fishers"). There will be three ...
TRY TO CONTAIN YOURSELVES
Mar 01, 2006; ... With the new Fresh Vac Professional Series containers, you putfood in, press down on the lid to force out the air, and you have avacuum seal. An indicator button shows that the seal has beencreated. To reheat food in the microwave, just open the vacuum valveso steam can escape. The ...
CUT!
Mar 01, 2006 ... 'The problem with "projection error" is that it's the truth but itsounds like a lie. It sounds an awful lot like "wardrobemalfunction."' DIRECTOR JASON ...
BOSTON, MOVIE-MAKING CAPITAL
Mar 01, 2006; ... Boston will never be a Hollywood back lot, but tax incentivesaimed at bringing more movie and TV deals to the Bay State may behelping. At a party Monday to celebrate the new law, people in highplaces were predicting the Hub could soon become a hot property withmoviemakers. Not only is ...
HERBS ON ICE
Mar 01, 2006; ... In the depths of winter, when farmers' markets are shuttered andsupermarket herbs are limited to brown-tinged leaves suffocating inplastic, you may wish you had frozen fresh herbs back when they wereplentiful. Israeli company Dorot has the foresight that you don't andmakes little trays ...
SWEET AND SALTY
Mar 01, 2006; ... Walking through the door at American Nut & Chocolate Company islike taking a step back into the penny-candy era, when a handful ofsweets cost a few coins. This family-owned business has been aroundfor decades. Bags of old favorites like gummy spearmint leaves andTootsie Rolls ($1 for a ...
THESE GERMAN DUMPLINGS ARE SIMPLY SATISFYING
Mar 01, 2006; ... WAYLAND Making spaetzle is pure, unadulterated fun. When thebatter is dropped into boiling water, it magically forms littlesquiggles, clumps, and strands in seconds, which turn plump as thetender morsels float to the surface. The mini German dumplings arethe preferred accompaniment to ...
CHICKEN BANA STANA
Mar 01, 2006; ... In the seven years that he has owned Paolo's Trattoria inCharlestown, chef Paul Delios says he has been asked "probably 2,000times" the meaning of a dish he calls Chicken Bana Stana. It's arecipe he got from his Greek mother, who in turn got it from Italianneighbors in East Saugus, where ...
BUSINESS IS BOOMING AROUND STOWE, VT.
Mar 01, 2006; ... STOWE, Vt. They called it the Big Pig: a chairlift so slow thatyour face likely would be numb by the time you skied off and had tochoose between Sterling Trail to the right or Main Street to theleft. On the far eastern perimeter of Spruce Mountain at Stowe SkiArea, the trails were ...
FIT FOR A KING
Mar 01, 2006; ... We like King Fung Garden for the dining room, where cracked redvinyl booths and chrome folding chairs are the most eye-catching partof the decor. Also likable is the lack of a liquor license you supplythe beer or wine, they offer the cups. There's more: Co-owner DorisMei wasn't working ...
`ZIZEK!' IS CONTENT TO TAG ALONG WITH `ELVIS OF CULTURAL THEORY'
Mar 01, 2006; ... High-end furniture from the 1970s is back in vogue now, one hears.A viewing of "Zizek!," which follows the antic Slovenian philosopherand cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek on a brief 2003 lecture circuitfrom Buenos Aires to New York to Cambridge and back home toLjubljana, suggests that the ...
ARLINGTON CATHOLIC ON MARK
Mar 01, 2006; ... ARLINGTON Coach Dave Brady and the Arlington Catholic girls'basketball team weren't about to make the same mistake twice. Lastseason, the Cougars rode into the Division 2 North playoffs andoverlooked first-round opponent Belmont. The team couldn't wait toget a piece of undefeated Melrose ...
SORE ELBOW SHOULDN'T SLOW PIERCE
Mar 01, 2006; ... WALTHAM Paul Pierce has been diagnosed with bursitis in his leftelbow, and he had it drained Monday. On the Celtics' recent roadtrip, a lump appeared on the elbow, about half the size of a golfball, and Pierce wore a pad during games. Yesterday, Pierce sat on the sideline and ...
BENTLEY, S. CONN. ON COLLISION COURSE
Mar 01, 2006 ... Kate Kelley of Hull scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, andLauren Moore (Bristol, N.H.) scored 15 points on five 3-pointers asBentley beat Pace, 67-60, in Northeast-10 women's basketballquarterfinal play last night in Pleasantville, N.Y. The fifth-seeded Falcons improved to ...
1995 THE PERFECT ENDING FOR UNDEFEATED UCONN
Mar 01, 2006; ... It was new to the women of Storrs, Conn., and their rabid fans.Sure, Connecticut had gone to the 1991 Final Four, but no oneexpected much out of those Cinderella Huskies.But this was muchdifferent. The Huskies were undefeated, and their 27-point rout ofStanford in the semifinals ...
TARGET IS CM - AGAIN
Mar 01, 2006; ... Picking a champion among this year's participants of the elite,invitation-only Super 8 tournament is easy. Fortunately, the seven other candidates for the state's No. 1 highschool boys' hockey prize, as they have all season long, will makethings interesting for top-seeded Catholic ...
IT'S EVERETT AT THE BUZZER
Mar 01, 2006; ... It was not exactly Duke's Christian Laettner against Kentucky inthe 1992 NCAA Tournament, but the Everett boys' basketball team won'tcomplain. Trailing by 1 with two seconds left, Allen Prophete hit a 5-footjumper off an inbounds pass at the buzzer to give the Crimson Tide a67-66 ...
RISING TIDE AT UMASS-BOSTON
Mar 01, 2006; ... Almost from the start, Charlie Titus knew something was different.The UMass-Boston men's basketball coach had seen almost everything inhis 30 years running a program that had begun in 1974 as a clubsport. Good times. Tough times. Rough times. Lately, the tide seemed to have turned ...
PRACTICE FOR BIG DANCE
Mar 01, 2006; ... The Big Ten women's basketball tournament this weekend inIndianapolis is sure to be a mini-preview of the NCAA Tournamentlater this month. The top four teams Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State, andMinnesota (co-third seeds) are all nationally ranked. The No. 5Buckeyes have won 16 ...
A COLD FACTOR
Mar 01, 2006 ... A person wrapped in blankets and sleeping bag weathered the 25degree temperature yesterday at the monument of William ...
US ADVISERS WARN THREAT OF CIVIL WAR MOUNTING IN IRAQ BAGHDAD LEADERS MUST TAKE REINS, BUSH AIDES SAY
Mar 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON Describing the situation in Iraq as "very tenuous,"President Bush's top intelligence advisers warned in a bluntassessment yesterday that mounting violence between Sunni and Shi'iteMuslims there could spark a full-blown civil war unless a unifiedgovernment can quickly take the ...
RAKAN'S WAR AT HOMECOMING, A GIFT ELICITS WONDER
Mar 01, 2006 ... A half-hour before the C-17 jet was to touch down in Iraq, theMississippi Air National Guard crew strapped on body armor and thenmoved to help Rakan Hassan, the boy they were flying home, put onhis. The vest and helmet weren't just ludicrously big for the wiry 12-year-old; they ...
CUSTOM-MADE CELEBRATION
Mar 01, 2006 ... Costumed revelers participated in the traditional Mardi Grasfestivities in storm-battered New Orleans yesterday - Fat Tuesday,the final ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Mar 01, 2006; ... ON DEMAND Transporter 2 ** RCN The fight machine and underworld deliveryman of the 2002 hit isnow transporting kids? How did this happen to ...
ROMNEY SHIFTS ON ADOPTION BY GAYS
Mar 01, 2006; ... Governor Mitt Romney signaled new openness yesterday toconsidering a request by Catholic bishops to ban gay couples fromadopting children from Catholic social service agencies, a shift fromearlier comments in which he said he had no authority in the matter. "We respect and honor ...
N.H. MAN DIES TRYING TO SAVE 2 FROM FIRE
Mar 01, 2006; ... TILTON, N.H. -- His house engulfed in flames, Kurt Kaltenborn had already saved one disabled woman early yesterday when he waded backinto the inferno seeking two more disabled adults whom he and hiswife sheltered. He perished in the quick-moving blaze, the last actof kindness by a man ...
CITIZENS DONATION AIDS KATRINA VICTIMS
Mar 01, 2006 ... Hurricane Katrina evacuees received a little more help yesterdaywhen the National Urban League received a $300,000 donation fromCitizens Charitable Foundation, said spokeswoman Debby Miller . Themoney, including $45,000 each for Boston ...
FIRE AT APARTMENT COMPLEX INVESTIGATED
Mar 01, 2006 ... The state fire marshal, Stephen D. Coan, is investigating a fireyesterday morning in a 100-unit apartment complex that injured fivepeople and that left an undetermined number of people homeless. Thefire broke out on Edmands Road in a six-story building in thecomplex. It resulted in ...
NFL TALKS BREAK OFF; TEAM OWNERS TO MEET
Mar 01, 2006; ... When is an agreement not an agreement? When it's between NationalFootball League owners and the NFL Players Association. Yesterday, NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw broke off talks with commissioner Paul Tagliabue and the owners' representatives in NewYork, saying there was ...
AN EXPORTED GENOCIDE
Mar 01, 2006 ... THE GENOCIDE in the Darfur region of Sudan goes on and on becauseoutside powers refuse to mount a humanitarian intervention with therequired level of force. In the past couple of months, raids on African villages like thosethat Arab Janjaweed militias and their Sudanese government ...
NOT SO BON TEMPS
Mar 01, 2006 ... THE BEADS, the feathered hats and costumes, the floats, the gaudyhumor: Mardi Gras has smaller crowds this year, but people are stilldetermined to fill New Orleans with wild mirth, to rub defiantcelebration into the gaping wounds left by Hurricane Katrina.Revelers fill the French ...
A HALF-BAKED HEALTH BILL
Mar 01, 2006 ... THE MASSACHUSETTS Senate rushed through a healthcare billyesterday that is incomplete and flawed, all to save a $385 millionspecial Medicaid allotment from the federal government. That moneyshould not be lost, but the goal of this legislation providingcoverage to Massachusetts residents ...
MORAL EQUIVALENCE AND THE WAR IN IRAQ
Mar 01, 2006; ... A CENTURY AGO, William James first delivered "The Moral Equivalentof War" at Stanford. The speech, since chosen by Joyce Carol Oatesfor inclusion in "The Best American Essays of the Century," arguedthat while humanity's martial spirit could not be denied, we might beable to find ways to ...
HALLIBURTON STRIKES AGAIN
Mar 01, 2006; ... HALLIBURTON'S LATEST outrageous withdrawal from its ATM (AmericanTaxpayer Machine) cries out for the Great Communicator. Back in 1976when Ronald Reagan first ran for president, he stoked the anger oflargely white audiences with brutal exaggerations of the undeservingblack and brown ...
FREEDOM OF HATE SPEECH
Mar 01, 2006; ... FUNNY PEOPLE, the Austrians. If you're Kurt Waldheim a former Nazimilitary officer linked to a genocidal massacre during World War IIthey elect you president. But if you're David Irving a British authorwho claimed that there never was a Nazi genocide during World War IIthey throw you in ...
IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THERE, YOU CAN SELL IT ANYWHERE
Mar 01, 2006; ... NEW YORK A motorized belt carries hundreds of circles of dough,lined up like so many soldiers, into 11,000 gallons of boiling waterfor a 45-second bath. "This," says the bakery's owner, "is what makes them bagelsinstead of bread." That boiling along with proofing, "retarding" ...
REROOTING BOSTON'S SKYLINE
Mar 01, 2006; ... BOSTON REMAINS a tale of two cities. One is the result of postWorld War II growth, leaving a collection of mid- and high-risebuildings of varying character and quality scattered throughout. Theother is the result of preservation and restoration, with a legacy oftightly knit small-scale ...
THESE AUTHORS RANKLE, BUT CHARLES RULES
Mar 01, 2006; ... There are two silly cases wending their ways through the courts inLondon. In the first, which I call "Win Dan Brown's Money," two ofthe authors of the loop-de-loop "history" "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"are alleging that Brown stole the "architecture" of his mammothbestseller, "The Da Vinci ...
THE FINAL CUT
Mar 01, 2006 ... .0Supermodel Heidi Klum, the high priestess of "Project Runway,"has given her "auf wiedersehen" to 13 aspiring fashion designers. Nowonly Santino Rice, Chloe Dao, and Daniel Vosovic remain on Bravo'shit reality series, competing for $100,000, a mentorship with BananaRepublic, a Saturn ...
FOR MUSICIANS, AN ONLINE ALTERNATIVE
Mar 01, 2006; ... The clash between a musician's creative impulses and thecommercial imperatives that drive record companies is as old asrecorded sound itself. Artists make the music and labels sell it,promoting and marketing it to the masses and reaping the lion's shareof the profits. The online ...
AT THIS WINE STORE, TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Mar 01, 2006; ... BROOKLINE High technology may have replaced hand harvesters withmechanical pickers, substituted stainless steel tanks for woodenbarrels, and turned winemakers into enologists, but until now ithasn't done much to improve or even alter the experience at thecrucial point where the wine ...
BC SAYS HELLO TO BYE
Mar 01, 2006; ... Now it's all about the seeding. The Boston College men's basketball team clinched a first-roundbye in its first Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament by posting aconvincing 80-65 victory last night over Wake Forest before a selloutConte Forum crowd of 8,606. "The most ...
A CROSSROADS IN ENGLAND
Mar 01, 2006; ... Joe Calzaghe knows he has waited too long for the moment that willfinally arrive for him Saturday night in Manchester, England, when hetries to unify the super middleweight title at the expense ofundefeated American champion Jeff Lacy. The 33-year-old Welshman has quietly defended ...
BRUINS HOPE THEY'VE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST
Mar 01, 2006; ... WILMINGTON The Bruins' Tale of Three Goalies, which has been animportant subplot in their season, is taking up where it left offbefore the Olympic break. The final chapters are being concocted incoach Mike Sullivan's offices at Ristuccia Arena and the TD BanknorthGarden, plot turns to be ...
BC WOMEN MUST GET A MOVE ON IN TOURNEY
Mar 01, 2006; ... Rutgers and Connecticut duked it out Sunday night in a women'sbasketball game that had major ramifications in terms of Big Eastbragging rights a subject that no longer has any significance toBoston College. But that doesn't mean the BC women didn't care about the outcome. "I ...
SAMPRAS TO `HAVE A LITTLE FUN' IN WTT
Mar 01, 2006 ... Tennis Pete Sampras is returning to the tennis court, signing up for theWorld Team Tennis pro league more than three years after his lastcompetitive match. "This is more about just getting myself a littlebusier and focused on something I used to be good at," said the 34-year-old ...
NFL TALKS BREAK OFF; TEAM OWNERS TO MEET
Mar 01, 2006; ... Never underestimate the blinding power of greed. That is the lesson to be learned from what happened yesterday inNew York, where NFL Players Association executive director GeneUpshaw walked out of negotiations, saying the sides were hopelesslydeadlocked in their talks to extend the ...
LONG DISTANCE DEDICATION
Mar 01, 2006; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. If Manny Ramirez strolls into camp today, hemight have time to say hello to Jason Varitek but not much more. Varitek will be off to Arizona tomorrow to join his Team USAteammates for the World Baseball Classic. This is not the best thing for the Red Sox. They ...