The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2006:
OUTLAWED AIDS PREVENTION
May 01, 2006; ... CARING FOR the sick has always been a defining act of religion, asif every conception of God must be measured by its generation ofcompassion. Among Catholics, the tradition of the "corporal works ofmercy," associated with Jesus himself, long ago spawned a commitmentto provide for the ...
I'LL MISS THE SAGAMORE ROTARY
May 01, 2006; ... MY HEART is breaking. Time is running out. The completion of theSagamore flyover project seems imminent. Our beloved rotary willdisappear. Route 3 will morph into Route 6 without a second thought. I might be the only Cape Codder who commutes to Boston who isunhappy to see our ...
FEMA FIXERS HAVE IT ALL WRONG
May 01, 2006 ... IF CONGRESS wonders why there is a lack of confidence inlawmakers' effectiveness, they need only look at senators' recentproposed "fix" for FEMA: to rename it ("Senators call for dismantlingof FEMA," Page A7, April 27). I propose that instead of spending money on new stationery, ...
SWIPE AT FEMINISM DOESN'T SIT WELL
May 01, 2006 ... I WOULD not have expected to find in a cookbook review the messagethat feminism causes "food illiteracy." In her review of "TheFamily Kitchen" (Food, April 26), T. Susan Chang begins: "One of theunintended - and probably unnecessary - consequences of feminism'smixed success was ...
KERRY: SHOULD HE OR SHOULDN'T HE?
May 01, 2006 ... ELLEN GOODMAN'S April 28 column ("Don't run, John Kerry," op-ed)pleads for our junior senator not to seek the presidency in 2008 andadds numerous explanations as to why he lost in 2004. In response, I offer Occam's razor, which states that theexplanation of any phenomenon should ...
KERRY: SHOULD HE OR SHOULDN'T HE?
May 01, 2006 ... WHILE IT is true that John Kerry made many mistakes in the 2004presidential campaign, one can learn from mistakes. If he can behimself and not what a group of advisers thinks he should be, wewould have not only a great candidate, but a great president whowould be the antithesis of what ...
THERE'S AN ART TO BEING ORIGINAL
May 01, 2006 ... WHEN I was an undergraduate music major at Brandeis University inthe mid-'60s, and just about novelist Kaavya Viswanathan's age, I wasgiven the task of composing a three-part invention for my 18th-century counterpoint class. No matter what key I chose, or what melodic shape I ...
WHICH STATE WILL WE BE?
May 01, 2006 ... MASSACHUSETTS shouldn't panic at the latest report from the USCensus estimating that more people are leaving the state than comingin; the full story is not quite as alarming as it seems. Still, thetrend is dangerous and demands attention. The numbers suggest Massachusetts suffered ...
OH, SAY, CAN YOU 'SI'? NO!
May 01, 2006 ... NOW THEY'RE translating the National Anthem into Spanish, and evenchanging the words ("Spanish-language `Banner' draws ire," Page A5,April 28)! I was in the Air Force during the Korean War. If ...
A LONG WAY TO GO IN ELIMINATING CHEMICAL WEAPONS
May 01, 2006; ... THIS WEEKEND marked the ninth anniversary of the internationalChemical Weapons Convention, which bans the development, production,and use of deadly chemical agents and requires the destruction ofexisting stockpiles. One year remains until the deadline for completing the ...
THE RAPE CHARGE AS WEAPON
May 01, 2006; ... THE NOTORIOUS case of alleged rape at Duke University has anexplosive mix of elements: gender, race, class, and charges of sexualviolence. Three members of the school's lacrosse team, privilegedyoung white men, are accused of sexually assaulting a stripper who ...
A TRUE-LIFE STORY GIVES THIS NOVEL ITS SPIRIT OF WONDER
May 01, 2006; ... For her 15th novel, Elizabeth Berg did something she has neverliked to do she took a story idea from a reader, a true story atthat, which is often difficult for those who live in the realm of theimagination. Marianne Raming Burke wrote to Berg suggesting a storybased on her mother, Pat, ...
CHESS NOTES
May 01, 2006; ... German firm Universal Event Promotion has announced that VladimirKramnik will play a six-game match against Deep Fritz from Nov. 25-Dec. 5. Kramnik will receive a minimum $500,000 to play, and, if hewins, $1,000,000 in total. Kramnik refused to play in the San Luisworld championship and ...
SERENITY NOW! EDWARD HALLOWELL WARNS AGAINST A MODERN EPIDEMIC HE CALLS BEING `CRAZYBUSY
May 01, 2006; ... If you're reading these words, chances are you've got something onthe stove, or someone on hold, or you're also watching TV. YourBlackBerry has gone off, your cellphone keeps ringing, the kids arecalling, your boss needs you. Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell contends that American ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
May 01, 2006; ... What About Brian 10 p.m., Channel 5 What about doing your laundry. Medium 10 p.m., Channel 7 Don't you . . . forget about guest star Molly Ringwald. Real Housewives of Orange County Marathon 9 p.m., Bravo Somewhere, there's a portrait of these women ...
RITTER STRUGGLES TO BALANCE UPBEAT PAST, DOUR PRESENT
May 01, 2006; ... The guitar-strumming troubadour Josh Ritter performed at Avalon onSaturday, and in a testament to this folk singer's pop-star caliberappeal, the Lansdowne Street nightclub was transformed into acavernous coffeehouse. Ladies screamed "I love you!" from the comfortof their folding chairs ....
TOMMY LEE HAS A FOUR-STAR FIT
May 01, 2006; ... Don't let his bedraggled bearing fool you, bad boy rocker TommyLee enjoys the finer things in life. Take, for example, hotelaccommodations. Pam Anderson 's wild-eyed ex was none too happy thisweekend when he discovered he wasn't staying at the Ritz-Carlton. Themadcap metalhead, whose ...
THE POLITICS OF DANCING
May 01, 2006; ... Is that the White House spin machine humming or John Lennon andGeorge Harrison spinning in their graves? Fox News host and Bush press secretary-designate Tony Snow is arock star wannabe who toted his sax to Rock and Roll Fantasy Campthree years ago, jamming with Leslie West ...
PEAS COOK FIRST TIME ON TOP OF BILL
May 01, 2006; ... Midway through their performance at Agganis Arena on Saturday, theBlack Eyed Peas dropped the revelation that their current NorthAmerican tour is their first as headliners. If there were any doubtsthat the pop hip-hoppers could bear the weight of an entire show bythemselves, they were ...
SNOW JOB
May 01, 2006 ... 'Congratulations on your promotion - or maybe it's a demotion.' NEWS CORP. CHAIRMEN RUPERT MURDOCK, ...
`YOUTH' PREVAILS AS MARTIN BESTS MCENROE
May 01, 2006; ... SUDBURY It was the yin and yang playing each other in the final ofthe Champions Cup before a soldout crowd of 2,500 yesterday at theBosse Sports club. Todd Martin, who received the Tour SportsmanshipAward from his peers in 1993 and '94, was pitted against John ("Areyou serious about that ...
THIS RETURN'S WELL EXECUTED IT'S A STROKE OF GENIUS FOR FANS
May 01, 2006; ... SUDBURY Although Streisand and Redford weren't in the crowd, itdid seem like a sporting version of "The Way We Were." Didn't that gray-haired chap used to be John Patrick McEnroe Jr.,the scourge and sensation of Wimbledon, bane of umpires and thane ofdivine shotmaking. Wasn't ...
NADAL SURPASSES BORG'S FEAT OF CLAY
May 01, 2006 ... Tennis Rafael Nadal put Bjorn Borg is his rearview mirror and set hissights on Guillermo Vilas . The defending champ defeated TommyRobredo , 6-4, 6-4, 6-0, yesterday to win the Open Seat Godo title inBarcelona, topping Borg's mark with his 47th straight victory on claywhile ...
GREEN BAY TABS BC'S BLACKMON SENIOR WR WILL GO BACK TO CB ROOTS
May 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH Will Blackmon was in a unique situation over theweekend. In addition to wondering what NFL team might draft him and whatround he might be selected, Blackmon also had no definitive knowledgeof what position he'd be playing in the pros. Would it be receiver, where he ...
HE'S GOT HIS FOOT IN PATRIOTS' DOOR KICKER GOSTKOWSKI HAPPY TO GET HIS CHANCE
May 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH Stephen Gostkowski doesn't want to be known as AdamVinatieri's replacement, but should the rookie from Memphis earn thejob as the Patriots' kicker, that'll be his official designation. That's the way it is when you follow a probable Hall of Famer. For now, Gostkowski ...
A RUNDOWN OF YESTERDAY'S PATRIOTS DRAFT CHOICES (ROUNDS 4-7):
May 01, 2006 ... GARRETT MILLS, FB, Tulsa, 6-1, 232 pounds, fourth round (106thoverall): Set an NCAA season record for yards receiving by a tightend with 1,235 last year when he led the nation's tight ends with 87catches . . . Considered too small to play tight end in the NFL so isexpected to be tried at ...
TRICIA SULLIVAN
May 01, 2006; ... Number of games pitched for New Bedford softball this year? Five.Number of hits Tricia Sullivan has allowed? Six. It's no surprise theWhalers are 9-0. Sullivan's ERA of 0.20 is almost as small as herbatting average (.500) is big. The 6-foot All-Scholastic already hasa no-hitter this ...
REVOLUTION UNSAFE AT HOME DEFENSE BURNED IN SECOND HALF
May 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH Taylor Twellman and the Revolution broke their scoringslumps yesterday, but New England surrendered two goals in a four-minute span during the second half and suffered a 2-1 home-openingloss to the Chicago Fire before 11,762 at Gillette Stadium. The Revolution (1-2-1) ...
SCHILLING GETS AHEAD OF HIMSELF LAPSE ON 1 PITCH COSTS HIM DEARLY
May 01, 2006; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Even the consolatory pat didn't make CurtSchilling move. He acknowledged the tap on his left knee, with theslightest of head nods and perhaps an eye blink, as he sat stonefacedafter a single pitch ruined an otherwise good outing for therighthander in his bid to ...
SIS, BOOM, HURRAH FOR PENA ON HIS HOMER
May 01, 2006; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Wily Mo Pena , who followed Mike Lowell'ssecond home run of the season in the ninth inning yesterday byhitting his third, pointed into the stands behind home plate atTropicana Field as he returned to the dugout. He said he wasgesturing to his youngest sister, Leonida ...
MASSCAP REVIVAL IN SUFFOLK PLANS
May 01, 2006; ... Though it's Kentucky Derby week, highlighted by the 132d Run forthe Roses at Churchill Downs, it's also the start of thoroughbredseason at Suffolk Downs, which opens its gates for live racingSaturday, beginning a season track officials hope will include thereturn of the Massachusetts ...
FOR TWELLMAN, IT'S NOT AN IDEAL WAIT
May 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH His first goal of the campaign, the one that finallywent in for Taylor Twellman after a three-game drought to open hisseason, gave the Revolution a 1-0 lead yesterday. At the same time, the 54th-minute header Twellman punched overChicago keeper Zach Thornton his first ...
OLIVE TREE MAY ALTER HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE, EGYPT
May 01, 2006; ... A single olive tree may force archeologists to change theirunderstanding of the Aegean civilizations that prospered during theLate Bronze Age. For decades, the field has been split over how longago a volcano on the island of Thera erupted. The eruption isimportant because it deposited ...
ASK DR. KNOWLEDGE
May 01, 2006 ... Q. How can termites eat wood? Could people, theoretically, atleast, eat wood? What is it about wood that makes it hard to digest?If you made really fine sawdust, could you eat that? KW, Boston A. To understand what termites do when they eat wood, and how thisdiffers from what ...
LAWRENCE FOLLONI, 86; COACH EXPANDED SCHOOL'S ATHLETICS
May 01, 2006; ... With a standout record as Bridgewater-Raynham Regional HighSchool's basketball coach and athletic director, Lawrence F.Folloni's goal was to make every child count. "I cherish those state championship teams, but to me, my primarygoal was to get every kid out there in the sport so ...
AND THEY'RE OFF!
May 01, 2006 ... Kayakers and canoeists pushed with their paddles yesterday at thestart of a 19-mile race, one of several races in the 24th Annual Runof the Charles Canoe and Kayak Race. Participants left ...
JAY THOMAS
May 01, 2006 ... Joseph James "Jay" Thomas Jr., a 60-year resident of Needham, diedof cancer at his home Friday. He was 83. Mr. Thomas was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He served in the MarineCorps during World War II, seeing action in the South Pacific from1942 to 1945. He attended Wentworth Institute in ...
THE DOCTOR WALKS ON THE WILD SIDE
May 01, 2006; ... Forty miles from Boston, the bodies of a lifeless crow and seagulllie on a small metal table. "This has been lead poisoning week," said Dr. Mark Pokras,director of the Wildlife Clinic at the Cummings School of VeterinaryMedicine at Tufts University. The birds are in an exam room on ...
DOES USING A COMPUTER FOR HOURS IN DARK HURT TEENAGERS' EYES?
May 01, 2006; ... Probably not, though there's no hard proof. "In theory, we do think that the more you use your eye muscles andthe visual processes in the brain, the more likely you are to developnearsightedness, especially at a young age," said Dr. Sandra Cremers,an ophthalmologist at the ...
NORMAN SCHEPPS, 87; OWNED ANTIQUES SHOP IN BREWSTER
May 01, 2006; ... Norman Schepps, owner of an antiques shop in Brewster, died April7 at Sutton Place Care Center in Lake Worth, Fla. He was 87. Though he studied photography and antiques at Columbia Universityafter World War II, Mr. Schepps did not open Kingsland Manor AntiquesLtd. until 1971 ....
GUNFIRE FROM CAR WOUNDS 3 MEN NEIGHBORS CITE ARGUING PRIOR TO DORCHESTER ATTACK
May 01, 2006; ... Three young men sitting on a stoop in Dorchester were shot lastnight in what neighbors said may have been the result of escalatingfriction between groups of youths. \ All three victims in lastnight's shooting at the corner of Lorne and Harvard streets wereexpected to survive, but ...
FROM MARK TWAIN TO HELEN KELLER
May 01, 2006 ... Excerpts from a letter dated March 17, 1903 Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic andgrotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much ofanything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism!For substantially all ideas are second hand, ...
BETH ISRAEL BUILDS ALL-IN-ONE CARDIAC OPERATING ROOM
May 01, 2006; ... Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently laid out nearly $3million to construct and outfit a "hybrid" operating room forpatients with heart problems. Doctors there say it is the only one ofits kind in the country. The new OR is equipped for cardiac catheterization, ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
May 01, 2006; ... ON DEMAND Waiting . . . * 1/2 Comcast There a great nasty comedy to be made about the food serviceindustry, but this isn't it. Hoping to be the "Office Space" ofrestaurants and settling for a third-rate ...
JULIE TRULL
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Saunders Trull, a former Chelmsford resident, died Saturdayat the Epoch of Chestnut Hill in Brookline. She was 94. Born in Lowell, Mrs. Trull graduated from the Academy of NotreDame in Tyngsborough in 1929. She received her bachelor of artsdegree in 1933 from Regis College in ...
OWENS , BONNIE
May 01, 2006 ... OWENS , Bonnie In Bakersfield, Calif., April 24, at 76. A singerwhose duet with Merle Haggard, "Just Between the Two ...
YOUNGER SIBLINGS MORE LIKELY TO BEHAVE BADLY THAN ELDEST
May 01, 2006; ... The stereotype that older siblings tend to be more responsiblethan their younger brothers and sisters may have some truth to it,according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado andLafayette College. The researchers analyzed questionnaire resultsfrom 9,000 American ...
SO JUST HOW FAT ARE WE? FATTER THAN WE THINK
May 01, 2006; ... We're a nation with a massively bulging waistline. Study afterstudy not to mention personal experience shows that's true. But areport released last week found that some obesity studies mayactually understate the crisis because of people fudging their trueweight and height. Researchers ...
DOWN TO THE SEA
May 01, 2006 ... Penguins walk toward the ocean after being released at a beach inAustralia on Friday. The penguins had been treated by the SydneyTaronga Zoo wildlife clinic for a variety of injuries. One had beenattacked by a dog, ...
TRIPLE SHOOTING
May 01, 2006 ... A Boston police officer assisted residents of Lorne Street inDorchester immediately after a triple shooting last night. Policereported that at 8:36 p.m., officers responded to a radio call ...
ON WITH THE SHOW SCHILLING, SOX DROP ANOTHER TO DEVIL RAYS
May 01, 2006; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Trot Nixon summoned the name of a long-forgotten character from a '50s kids' TV show to describe what it waslike last season, when the Yankees and Red Sox opened the seasonagainst each other, resumed play after the All-Star break by playingeach other, then met ...
RED CROSS ASSISTS 11 AFTER FIRE
May 01, 2006 ... WOONSOCKET, R.I. The seven-alarm fire that destroyed an abandoned city-owned millSaturday afternoon damaged two nearby triple-decker homes anddestroyed a third, leaving four adults homeless, the American RedCross reported yesterday. No injuries were reported, but the agency ...
SHOOTING KILLS 1, INJURES 1
May 01, 2006 ... One person was killed and another was seriously wounded in anearly-morning shooting in Dorchester yesterday. Police said theyresponded to the report of a shooting shortly before 4 a.m. at 37Ellington St. and found one ...
J.K. GALBRAITH, 1908 - 2006
May 01, 2006 ... THEY CALL IT the dismal science, but in the hands of John KennethGalbraith, economics was neither dismal nor much of a science. Heturned his knowledge of economic basics into social criticism for acountry that emerged from the sacrifices and privations of theDepression and World War II ...
THIS BILL IS ALL AIR, NO NET
May 01, 2006; ... There is a bill making its way through the Legislature,stealthily, that may be very difficult to oppose. Originallypetitioned into the Senate by a third grade class from Hudson I willaddress the nefarious role that grade-schoolers have played in statelegislation in a moment SB 1851 aims ...
`DAMN YANKEES' IS A WINNER WITH SOX IN THE LEAD
May 01, 2006; ... BEVERLY When you stage musical theater, you gotta have heart butyou gotta have smarts, too. And the North Shore Music Theatre's RedSox edition of "Damn Yankees" has plenty of both. The musical was originally conceived in the 1950s for a team thatwas even worse than that era's Red ...
CONSERVATORY SENIOR VERONICA KUEHN GRADUATES TO BROADWAY IN `MAMMA MIA!'
May 01, 2006; ... Veronica Kuehn will not be doing the cap-and-gown thing with herfellow Boston Conservatory classmates on May 13. Instead, the 22-year-old musical theater major will be in New York rehearsing her newpart in the Broadway production of "Mamma Mia!" Young actors can spend years playing ...
AN EVEN TOUGHER TEST IS AT HAND
May 01, 2006; ... Jake LaMotta used to say, "I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so often, Ialmost got diabetes." Does this mean the Red Sox are in danger of catching MadSteinbrenner Disease or Jeter-itis? The Sox play host to the Yankees tonight and it'll be the seventy-second meeting between the ...
THESE JETS PROVED READY FOR TAKEOFF
May 01, 2006 ... FOXBOROUGH Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells taught their studentswell. Perhaps too well for their own long-term good. Eric Mangini, the Belichick acolyte now running the New York Jets,and Mike Tannenbaum, who learned the personnel and contract end ofthe game under Parcells before ...
ON WITH THE SHOW SOX LOOKING TO REBOUND AFTER DEFEAT
May 01, 2006; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Trot Nixon summoned the name of a long-forgotten character from a '50s kids' TV show to describe what it waslike last season, when the Yankees and Red Sox opened the seasonagainst each other, resumed play after the All-Star break by playingeach other, then met again ...
YANKEES ARE LINED UP, READY TO GO
May 01, 2006; ... NEW YORK "The Yankees are coming! The Yankees are coming!" This probably does not come as a news bulletin to most fans, butjust in case a few of you have been OD'ing on running backs,wideouts, and linebackers the past month, the time has come for theactual beginning of the local ...
EXPERTS SAY MAC COMPUTERS SHOWING MORE SECURITY HOLES VIRUSES TARGETING APPLE'S OS X
May 01, 2006; ... SAN FRANCISCO Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clickedon a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased updateto his computer's operating system. Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran asif the machine was under the control of someone ...
GENOME RESEARCH MAY BRING BETTER FOOD TO DINNER TABLE
May 01, 2006; ... AMES, Iowa Max Rothschild has been trying to "build" a better pigfor almost 30 years, since he took a job cleaning up after the hogsat his alma mater, the University of California, Davis. He's now a renowned swine scientist who has traded the pigpens foran Iowa State University ...
THING 'MR. BEAN MEETS DOC BROWN"
May 01, 2006 ... Engineers at the University of Bath and elsewhere in Europe lastweek introduced a minicar that squeezes through traffic like amotorcycle, and opens up parking options you never knew were there.The CLEVER (for Compact ...
WOBURN FIRM AIMS TO BRIGHTEN THE IMAGES ON TV $38M TO AID EXPANSION PLANS
May 01, 2006; ... A company that says its product can give your high-definition TVset a brighter picture while using less energy is getting $38 millionin cash to expand. Luminus Devices Inc. of Woburn plans to disclose its latest roundof funding today, and company officials say they will use the ...