The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 2007:
Seeds of a solution - Could iron dropped in the ocean combat climate change?
Oct 01, 2007; ... WOODS HOLE - It reads more like science fiction than any realsolution to global warming: Fertilizing the sea to create planktonblooms that suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the air. Yet two US companies are moving toward doing just that bysprinkling particles of iron over ...
Unusual flavor
Oct 01, 2007; ... The City Seen NORTH END - Bob Eustace (left) is living a Cinderella story.Almost 20 years ago, he went to work for Ralph Polcari at Polcari'sCoffee in the North End. The owner of the shop told the then 17-year-old that if he stuck around he'd leave him the shop one day."It's hard ...
Man says he saw 2 flee, then shooting victim ; Describes scene in Dorchester
Oct 01, 2007; ... A Dorchester man, who found a victim shot in the front stairwellof his apartment building Saturday, said yesterday he called policeafter he saw two men, one carrying a revolver, rush out of thebuilding. "He said, `Sir, I've been shot. I've been shot,"' said RichardPierce, 53, of ...
BY SEA AND BY AIR
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Clinton woos supporters for Tsongas
Oct 01, 2007; ... LOWELL - Former president Bill Clinton said there was meaning inthe fact that he arrived two hours late last night to support NikiTsongas's tightening battle to keep her husband's old Congressionalseat from Republican control. "This is not a casual moment," Clinton told more than ...
White Coat Notes
Oct 01, 2007 ... Excerpts from the Globe's blog on the Boston-area medicalcommunity. Cancer investigators honored Angelika Amon of MIT and Dr. Todd R. Golub of Dana-Farber CancerInstitute and the Broad Institute will receive the 2007 Paul MarksPrize for Cancer Research from Memorial ...
A new footprint ; At a critical time for PBS, Jonathan Abbott brings fresh ideas and an eye to the future as president of WGBH
Oct 01, 2007; ... Back in the early 1980s at Columbia University, an undergraduatenamed Jonathan Abbott took on a job no one else really wanted:broadcasting live radio, every Friday night, from a new jazz clubcalled the Blue Note. The task had a lot to do with schleppingequipment all the way to Greenwich ...
`Aliens' is a sweet, gentle take on teen misfits`Aliens' is a sweet sitcom about misfits bonding
Oct 01, 2007; ... Fall TV Aliens In America Starring: Dan Byrd, Adhir Kalyan, Lindsey Shaw, Amy Pietz, ScottPatterson On: The CW, Ch. 56 Time: Tonight, 8:30-9 The topically tinged "Aliens in America," could have beenexcruciating. About a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim boy ...
Conjuring the spirit of Paris in the 1920s
Oct 01, 2007; ... Music Review Maria Bachmann, violin; Jon Klibonoff, piano Presented by Pro Musicis At: Jordan Hall, Friday On Friday, violinist Maria Bachmann and pianist Jon Klibonoffframed their Jordan Hall recital with souvenirs from one of art'smost famous lost utopias, ...
Betting against the rising tide
Oct 01, 2007; ... A couple of weeks ago, I was having lunch with my friend JohnEcheverria, who runs Georgetown University's Environmental Law &Policy Institute. John and his family had just spent the last weekof the summer in Truro, which, as we know, is pretty darned lovelyat any time of ...
A moving celebration ; Flashes of brilliance at BeanTown jazz tribute
Oct 01, 2007; ... Music Review BeanTown Jazz Festival opening night: A Celebration of Jazz andJoyce At: Symphony Hall, Friday night Friday night, at Symphony Hall, the BeanTown Jazz Festival openedwith an all-star offering that came within at least shoutingdistance of its advance ...
COUNTING THEIR BLESSINGS
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As frost fades, berry rivalry heats ; Temperatures pit Maine, Quebec growers
Oct 01, 2007; ... THE 45th PARALLEL / WARMING WHERE WE LIVE Seventh in a series of occasional articles examining climatechange, its effects, and possible solutions. DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Quebec - Decades ago, the flat fields of wildblueberries more than three hours north of Quebec City posed ...
His exploits, rants are a laughfest for readers
Oct 01, 2007; ... Book Review (Not That You Asked) Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions By Steve Almond Random House, 304 pp., $21.95 Comedian Richard Pryor famously transformed his own pain and soul-shattering personal demons into unforgettable comedy. Pryor'scomplete lack of ...
Boy, 8, hit by car remains critical
Oct 01, 2007; ... QUINCY - An 8-year-old North Quincy boy who was struck by a carwhile skateboarding outside his apartment building remained incritical condition yesterday, hospital officials and neighbors said. Neighbors prayed yesterday for Angel Lugo, a third-grader atFrancis W. Parker Elementary ...
History and the drumbeat of war
Oct 01, 2007; ... IF YOU Google "war Iran," you will come up with more than 90million results. The blogosphere is full of alarms about USintentions toward Iran. Newsweek said last week that Vice PresidentCheney has been looking to provoke an Israeli assault againstIranian nuclear facilities that would ...
Son of immigrants shares a long goodbye [Corrected 10/02/07]
Oct 01, 2007; ... David Arias, a lanky 16-year-old with a mouthful of braces,ambled down the halls of Boston Latin Academy on Thursday, sayinggoodbye to his classmates and trying to salvage what is left of hisAmerican life. Friends cornered him in the halls and hugged him in thecafeteria. Everyone ...
Massachusetts - a primary pit stop
Oct 01, 2007; ... "I GO to New Hampshire looking for votes. I come to Massachusettslooking for money." These were the frank comments a presidentialcandidate recently made to me. In other words he was saying, "I spend weeks, if not months, intotal time visiting every city, town, and hamlet in New ...
Let the post-diet era begin
Oct 01, 2007; ... Health Sense Is permanent, significant weight loss really possible? If you're talking merely 10 to 20 pounds - and nobody knows theactual figure - you probably can diet and exercise your way to asvelter self and stay there, provided you stick with your weightcontrol program ...
DISCOVERIES
Oct 01, 2007 ... AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE Some jobs may be more likely to cause illness An autoimmune disease is a condition in which our immune systembetrays our body and begins to attack our own tissues. Millions ofAmericans are afflicted with autoimmune diseases such as type 1diabetes, ...
Dropkick Murphys give Avalon an Irish wake
Oct 01, 2007; ... Music Review Dropkick Murphys, Darkbuster, Everybody Out At: Avalon, last night If Avalon must close its doors to make way for an expanded, ifnot improved, Lansdowne Street entertainment complex - and itapparently must - it would be harder to think of a more ...
At march, an honor for soldier ; Quincy woman killed in combat
Oct 01, 2007; ... QUINCY - Her sisters walked 4 miles yesterday to raise money forcancer care. It was what Ciara M. Durkin would have demanded, theysaid. During the march, a moment of silence was held in honor ofDurkin, a 30-year-old specialist in the Massachusetts Army NationalGuard, who was ...
Why is electricity transferred at high voltages when we use 120 volts?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Ask Dr. Knowledge There's a really good reason not to make voltages low until thepoint where they're about to be used, and to keep them as high aspossible as long as possible. If voltage is the electrical equivalent of water pressure, thencurrent is the equivalent of how much ...
Foreign buyouts raise US fears as weaker dollar drives dealsForeign buyouts raising US fears ; Weakened dollar has investors pouncing
Oct 01, 2007; ... Foreign firms are taking advantage of the weaker dollar to buy UScompanies at a record pace that is boosting investment here but alsoraising fears about a potential loss of jobs and autonomy. In New England alone, 69 companies have been sold to foreignbuyers in the first nine ...
The cancer of bad policy
Oct 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK State and federal officials are locked in a cruel battleover immigrants who have cancer. In 2005, the federal governmenttold New York that it could no longer get federal Medicaidreimbursements for providing chemotherapy to poor, undocumentedimmigrants and even to legal ...
Red, white, blue, and green
Oct 01, 2007 ... Run with it ALTHOUGH HIS poll rankings are perpetually low, it's easy to spotDennis Kucinich in the crowd of Democrats running for president:He's the bright green man, the one pushing for an almost utopianrecommitment to the environment. Kucinich proposes a WGA - Works Green ...
Better mental health for kids
Oct 01, 2007 ... CHILDREN WITH serious mental illnesses have been waiting foryears for the state to honor its responsibilities to them underfederal law. Now a modest $7.8 million down payment on that debtneeds swift approval from the Legislature. The money will startexpanding mental health services for ...
Rescuers scour Nevada site for missing adventurer
Oct 01, 2007; ... RENO - Rescue teams on foot, horseback, and all-terrain vehiclesresumed their search yesterday in western Nevada for millionaireadventurer Steve Fossett, missing since taking off alone in a smallplane on Sept. 3. The ground search, now in its second day, focused on a patch ...
Fund-raiser soars for guardsmen
Oct 01, 2007; ... A small fleet of four-seat Cessnas and Pipers took to the skyfrom North Andover yesterday, giving hundreds of riders abreathtaking tour high above the Merrimack Valley. But for the 972d Military Police Company, an Army National Guardcompany in Reading, the charitable flights will ...
Betty Goodman, 95; ran Penny Candy House in Hull
Oct 01, 2007; ... The penny Mary Janes, Root Beer Barrels, Dubble Bubble,Lemonheads, and Necco Wafers are long gone, but sweet memories ofthe joy they brought to those now of a certain age linger still. For youngsters in Hull in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the centerof the universe was the ...
Dozens vie for share of $2m grant from state
Oct 01, 2007; ... In New Bedford, street workers want to prevent 12-year-olds fromjoining gangs. In Fall River, city officials would like to offermore jazz and baton twirling classes for fifth-graders who havenowhere to go after school. In Fitchburg, a pastor wants computersfor the children who come to ...
In tribes, tug of enlistment ; Loyalty, money driving Indians to enlist Loyalty, money drive Indians in record numbers
Oct 01, 2007; ... KICKAPOO INDIAN RESERVATION, Kansas - Sitting behind her desk attribal headquarters, Candace Wishkeno proudly displayed a photo ofher daughter, Jessica, smiling broadly in her Army uniform againstthe backdrop of an American flag. "She joined to get money for school," said Wishkeno, ...
Milan Jelic, 51, Bosnian president
Oct 01, 2007; ... BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Milan Jelic, president ofBosnia's Serb Republic, died of a heart attack yesterday after lessthan a year on the job, the prime minister said. He was 51. Dr. Jelic suffered the heart attack while watching a soccer gamein his hometown, Modrica, his ...
Locked-in perspective
Oct 01, 2007; ... The things that Sam Williams noticed most inside the grandrotunda of the Liberty Hotel were the things that were missing. The pigeons that used to fly around the Charles Street Jailaren't there anymore. Neither are the water bugs, the 4-inchcreatures that marched over from the ...
Jewelry from bones? He vents spleen
Oct 01, 2007 ... FEATURING JEWELRY made from human bones on the cover of the Sept.27 Calendar is disgraceful. What's next - human heads on fence postsin the Home section? While this may be "legal," I find it morally repugnant. It seemshighly unlikely that the people from whom these bones came, or ...
Those enormous houses and their footprints
Oct 01, 2007 ... SO WELLESLEY is now trying to limit the size of homes byrequiring site plan review for houses in excess of 4,500 square feet("Little appetite for McMansions," Page A1, Sept. 26). It has become fashionable for neighbors to dictate the terms ofhome construction on property that they ...
What's that in my soup?
Oct 01, 2007; ... I WAS in Japan recently when the government of Prime MinisterShinzo Abe fell, but I faced a diplomatic crisis of my own thatrequired at least as much subtlety and tact. We were staying in a traditional Japanese ryokan inAmanohashidate, a famous resort on Miazu Bay, hoping to burn ...
Getting a leg up on the path to college
Oct 01, 2007 ... PETER SCHMIDT ("At the elite colleges - dim white kids," Op-ed,Sept. 28) implies that because elite colleges admit less-qualifiedapplicants with connections (who are overwhelmingly wealthy andwhite), those places are lost to "a talented young person from ahumble background." Alas, class ...
What about after the campaign?
Oct 01, 2007 ... MANY YOUNG Americans appear to be searching for the perfectpresidential candidate, as evidenced by the comments of thosesupporting Ron Paul ("Paul's their all," Page A1, Sept. 27). Thosewho want only to elect someone who truly reflects their views may besetting themselves up for ...
Magnolia Electric Co. takes the long way [Corrected 10/11/07]
Oct 01, 2007; ... Jason Molina doesn't download music. But the Magnolia ElectricCo. frontman fears that those who do may only get a part of thepicture he's describing in song, since he weaves themes throughouthis albums. "I have always appreciated a complete record more than justindividual songs," ...
Linda McRea, 57, journalist in Maine
Oct 01, 2007 ... BANGOR - Linda McRea, a reporter, editor, and columnist for Mainenewspapers, died in her home Wednesday after a brief illness. Shewas 57. Ms. McRea, who was born on Vinalhaven, worked as a licensedpractical nurse before going to work as a correspondent for ...
Action in the Arctic
Oct 01, 2007; ... BOTH OF us returned recently from different parts of the Arctic.It still presents a picture of raw health, teeming with wildlife,including polar bears, in a landscape where ice takes an astoundingvariety of forms and colors. Yet recent scientific reports tell us that all of this ...
RED SOX RALLY
Oct 01, 2007 ... Fans will celebrate the team's division title at City Hall Plazatoday from 4 to 7 p.m. Some ...
Not much of a mix at this festival
Oct 01, 2007; ... Music Review MixFest 2007 Featuring Matchbox Twenty, Daughtry, Mat Kearney, Colbie Caillat,and Blue October At: Agganis Arena, Saturday For an event that billed itself as MixFest and hung a giantbanner with sponsoring radio station Mix 98.5's slogan - ...
NAMES
Oct 01, 2007; ... On top of the world Perhaps he was still basking in the glow of his team heading tothe playoffs, but an unusually animated John Henry was the toast ofSaturday night's party to mark the release of a new edition ofBoston Common magazine. Henry worked the room at the Boylston ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Oct 01, 2007 ... CONCORD, N.H. 2 slain police officers honored Two New Hampshire police officers killed in the line of duty werehonored yesterday with congressional law enforcement awards. NewHampshire's bipartisan congressional delegation announced posthumouscareer service awards for ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Oct 01, 2007 ... HAVERHILL Woman killed, 2 hurt in crash Police are investigating a fatal crash that closed part ofInterstate 495 for three hours yesterday. Lynn Anderson, 27, ofNorth Billerica, was driving a 2006 Volkswagen sedan about 4:18 p.m.when her car collided with a 2002 Jeep Liberty ....
TRIBUTE TO THE 9/11 FALLEN
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THE NATION / DAILY BRIEFING
Oct 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK Woman found dead in Arizona cell ID'd NEW YORK - A 45-year-old New York woman was found dead in apolice holding cell in Arizona, where she had been taken inhandcuffs after being arrested at an airport, officials saidyesterday. Authorities said Carol Anne Gotbaum, the ...
Obama's backers insist polls belie a buzz they see on trail
Oct 01, 2007; ... PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - It's a warm fall morning in southwest NewHampshire and people are streaming onto a farm to see Barack Obamaspeak in front of a red clapboard barn. They are young, old,walking, in wheelchairs, dressed up, and dressed down - about 1,000in all. The gathering is ...
What exactly is the condition normal-pressure hydrocephalus?
Oct 01, 2007 ... HEALTH ANSWERS An estimated 375,000 Americans have a condition called normal-pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, which is often misdiagnosed aseither Alzheimer's disease because memory is impaired in both casesor as Parkinson's because gait is affected in both, said Dr. PeterBlack, ...
BU police seek suspect in alleged rape
Oct 01, 2007; ... Boston University police are looking for a man who allegedlysexually assaulted a woman in the bathroom of a campus dorm earlyyesterday, the university's spokesman said. A female, who was not a student, was visiting an all-female floorin the coed Shields Tower, when she was attacked ...
Autopsy may ID bullet fatal to Revere officer ; Officials probe Saturday's shooting near high school
Oct 01, 2007; ... Investigators were awaiting the results of an autopsy performedby state medical examiners yesterday on Revere police officer DanTalbot to help determine who fatally shot him early Saturday morningbehind the city's high school, a spokesman for the Suffolk DistrictAttorney's office said ...
Autopsy may ID bullet fatal to Revere officer ; Officials probe Saturday's shooting near high school
Oct 01, 2007; ... Investigators were awaiting the results of an autopsy performedby state medical examiners yesterday on Revere police Officer DanTalbot to help determine who fatally shot him early Saturday behindthe city's high school, a spokesman for the Suffolk DistrictAttorney's office said ...
Online job hunters grapple with misuse of personal data ; Online resumes often misused
Oct 01, 2007; ... After he posted his resume online in 2004, Ed Pilarski got moreresponses than he bargained for. More than a dozen companies called or e-mailed the retiredVerizon Communications Inc. project manager with job offers he didnot want or mortgage refinancing deals he did not ...
Sox: wrap party ; Game 162 loss no big deal as playoffs near
Oct 01, 2007; ... Here's what you get on the last day when it's all wrapped up,neat and pretty. You get Fort Myers North. The guys with the big names and the bigsalaries are all out of there by the sixth. You get the skipper trying to give players the basketballStanding O. You get some ...
The powerhouse `pirate' of the math classroom
Oct 01, 2007; ... Perhaps the most repeated story in the legend of Paul Sally - themathematician and 74-year-old Roslindale native who is known aroundthe University of Chicago as "Professor Pirate" - involves a mandangling from the top floor balcony of a large atrium hotel at amathematics conference many ...
Bull session proved very productive
Oct 01, 2007; ... RED SOX NOTEBOOK With Curt Schilling scratched from yesterday's scheduled outing -perhaps in advance of a Game 2 start against the Angels - it was upto Julian Tavarez to close out the final game of the 2007 regularseason. And, while it didn't exactly go well early for the ...
Talking trash - without a fist in the face ; Web offerings let fans speak out and spar anonymously
Oct 01, 2007; ... In the age of amateur auteurs, encyclopedias written by themasses, and citizen journalism, it was only a matter of time beforethe Web gave sports fans a new kind of soapbox. With baseball playoffs kicking off this week and football seasonheating up, local bootstrapping start-up ...
High Tech 25
Oct 01, 2007 ... Bain Capital agreed to buy 3Com for $2.2 billion; Raytheon'sprotest of a multibillion dollar cargo plane contract was denied. LAST MARKET CAP LAST PCT. NO. WEEK COMPANY TICKER (MILLIONS) PRICE CHANGE 1 1 EMC Corp. EMC $43,624 $20.80 9.3% 2 2 Raytheon Co. RTN ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Oct 01, 2007; ... FALL SEASON / RETURNING Everybody Hates Chris 8 p.m., Channel 56 Chris Rock visits ''Chris Rock'' in an episode not written byCharlie Kaufman. Girlfriends 9 p.m., Channel 56 The Game 9:30 p.m., Channel 56 FALL SEASON: PREMIERING Aliens in ...
The travelers' crystal ball
Oct 01, 2007; ... ONLINE FINDS / Airfare farecast.com When Al Gore started his whole World Wide Web thing, it wassupposed to make things easier for us. It has in many respects, butfinding and booking flights and hotels can still be a major hassle.Hugh Crean and his band of statisticians and ...
QUICK PICKS
Oct 01, 2007; ... Rock Few people probably remember the reality TV show that was TeddyGeiger's big break - "In Search of the New Partridge Family" - andthat's a good thing. Now you'll get to hear the teen prodigy playdelicate piano ballads from last year's major label debut, "UnderageThinking," ...
Pitching in to fight cancer
Oct 01, 2007; ... SHOPPING TIP OF THE DAY Today marks the beginning of National Breast Cancer AwarenessMonth, and Shreve, Crump & Low is doing its part to help fight thedisease. America's oldest jeweler has commissioned 2,000 PinkGurgling Cod Pitchers, and partial proceeds from sales will bepoured ...
ON DEMAND
Oct 01, 2007; ... Hot Fuzz *** Comcast ''The ''Shaun of the Dead'' boys apply their formula -- cheeky/shabby British take-offs of Hollywood genres -- to two-cop actionmovies. The results are slapdash but engaging, with Simon Pegg(inset) as a ...