The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 2008:
'Burgher joint - Hungry Steelers invade Gillette, devour Patriots
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - It was a soggy blur of black and gold opportunism.Turnover, after turnover, after turnover, after turnover, afterturnover. There were five straight in all, and when the Patriotswere done dropping the ball, having it stripped, and throwing it tothe Pittsburgh Steelers, a ...
Local rabbis seeking right words on Mumbai [Corrected 12/02/08]
Dec 01, 2008; ... Though the events were unfolding thousands of miles away, RabbiMendy Uminer could not take his eyes off the television coverage ofthe terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. As gunmen seized locations across the city, including the ChabadHouse, an outreach center operated by the ...
Relax, rest of the schedule not meaty
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - Every so often we get these reminders that last yearwas last year and this year, well, ain't. Miami 38, New England 13. San Diego 30, New England 10. And now ... Pittsburgh 33, New England 10. There's a top tier of teams in the National Football ...
Pier 4 tops list of tax scofflaws $8.6 million still owed to city
Dec 01, 2008; ... On Thanksgiving Day, diners at Anthony's Pier 4 paid $50 for aholiday meal with all the fixings, from pressed cider and herbedchestnut stuffing to pumpkin pie with crushed peanut brittle. A little more than 16,000 of those dinners would just about coverthe beloved harborside ...
Hefty recruit hustled to free his inner police officer 65 lbs. leaner, deemed class's most motivated
Dec 01, 2008; ... When Michael Taylor was invited to join the Boston Police Academyin summer 2007, he knew he needed to do more than prove he couldshoot straight. At 5 feet 6 inches and 265 pounds, Taylor could barely run a milewithout getting winded. Chasing 18-year-old suspects through ...
Whole Foods' canola oil isn't just for cooking: It makes electricity, too Reuse plan will power commissary that supplies 43 stores
Dec 01, 2008; ... EVERETT - In the Whole Foods Market Inc. commissary a few blocksfrom Route 99, the same canola oil that's being used to fry Asianshrimp balls and popcorn chicken will soon help power the walk-infreezer and the overhead lights. The viscous chardonnay-colored liquid already flows ...
For Sox fans, eternally
Dec 01, 2008; ... ROCKLAND - For years, lifelong Red Sox fans wanted their team towin the World Series so they could finally go to the grave in peace.Now, they can do it encased in the team's logo as well. Yes, the officially licensed Red Sox casket has arrived. The teamlogo is embroidered on the ...
FESTIVE FELINE
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Asthma rate higher in US-born blacks, Dorchester study finds
Dec 01, 2008; ... A landmark survey conducted on street corners in Dorchester showsthat African-Americans born in this country are nearly three timesmore likely to have asthma than their black neighbors born abroad, afinding that could yield important clues about a national epidemic. The study was ...
Biotech firms cutting back as capital grows scarce
Dec 01, 2008; ... The pain on Wall Street has spread to the hub of the Boston-areabiotech industry, Kendall Square in Cambridge. Small and mid-sizebiotechnology firms are slashing jobs, cutting salaries, andshrinking their offices as it becomes increasingly difficult toraise capital. "It's a ...
Activists expect Clinton to propel women's rights
Dec 01, 2008; ... A NEW PRESIDENT WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's expected nominationtoday of Hillary Clinton as the next secretary of state hasenergized human rights and women's rights activists, who expect theformer first lady to bring a dramatic new focus to the plight ofwomen ...
Call to witness inaugural history resounds in Hub
Dec 01, 2008; ... A NEW PRESIDENT Soon after Beverly Edgehill started planning to attend President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, she realized how challenging thetrip would be. The nearest hotel room she could find available forJan. 20 was 90 minutes outside of Washington. She didn't want ...
India's top security minister resigns Raid not ruled out on Pakistan camps
Dec 01, 2008; ... MUMBAI, India - The top domestic security official resigned indisgrace yesterday for the failure to thwart or quickly contain thehorrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, as the governmentannounced a raft of measures to bolster antiterrorism efforts andstruggled to calibrate a ...
Veteran judge in line for SJC Superior Court's Gants ruled in many high-profile cases [Corrected 12/02/08]
Dec 01, 2008; ... Governor Deval Patrick today is expected to nominate SuperiorCourt Judge Ralph Gants as an associate justice of the SupremeJudicial Court, according to an official briefed on the nomination. Gants, 54, of Lexington, would fill the seat left vacant by JohnGreaney, who is retiring ...
Local ties for Marshall Scholars Refugee among the 40 selected [Corrected 12/02/08]
Dec 01, 2008; ... His parents fled the genocide in Cambodia decades ago and landedin a refugee camp in Vietnam. There, in August 1984, Kuong Ly wasborn. He and his family would bounce around refugee camps throughoutSoutheast Asia for the next six years before reaching the UnitedStates. That ...
NAMES
Dec 01, 2008; ... KEEPING THE 'FEUD' ALL IN THE FAMILY There was a funny moment during the "Family Feud" segment ofKevin Youkilis's Hits for Kids fund-raiser Saturday night at MoheganSun. Asked to ID the sexiest New York Yankees, Sox skipper TerryFrancona rang in with Jorge Posada. The Sox skipper's ...
GOP senator voices support for Clinton
Dec 01, 2008 ... POLITICAL NOTEBOOK Richard G. Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate ForeignRelations committee, said yesterday that he intended to vote infavor of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but he saidquestions remain over how she and her husband will deal withpotential ...
Slater fumbled kickoff, grasped his responsibility
Dec 01, 2008; ... On football FOXBOROUGH - Kickoff returner Matthew Slater could have done whathe was supposed to do midway through the third quarter. He couldhave run. Slater emerged from the team's training room after the Patriots'sloppy 33-10 loss to the Steelers yesterday, and was ...
A grandfather's hope for smiles Globe Santa asks help to meet need
Dec 01, 2008; ... GLOBE SANTA The serious economic problems facing the nation and much of therest of the world are making this Christmas season particularlydifficult for many people. Globe Santa, as he goes about preparing to provide Christmasgifts for well over 50,000 needy children in ...
Moss gathers some drops WR had four catches but some key misses
Dec 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK FOXBOROUGH - Mother Nature did what few NFL defenses canyesterday, take Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss out of hiselement. Moss, who had four catches for 45 yards, was guilty of droppingballs in the rain drops, and he owned up to it after the ...
Virginia Precourt, at 92; artist's work was made to last
Dec 01, 2008; ... Virginia S. Precourt knew that even though an artist's paintingsmay survive for centuries, they often deteriorate with time.Desiring a different future for her work, she layered polymers withher paint or pastels to increase the life span of each creation. "Everything falls apart, ...
Is a child ever too young to have tonsils removed?
Dec 01, 2008; ... HEALTH ANSWERS No, as long as the surgery is done in a reputable hospital withwell-trained staff. In fact, in rare medical emergencies, evennewborns have surgery to remove their tonsils and/or adenoids, theclump of tissue on the back wall of the throat. These emergencies ...
HIGHLIGHT REEL Outside-the-hashmarks nuggets from the Patriots- Steelers game:
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Patriots finally cooled down. The Patriots entered with a 23-3 record (since 1993) when the kickoff temperature was 34 degrees or less, with 18 wins in theirlast 20 games. The kickoff temperature yesterday was 34 degrees. This was the team's coldestgame of the season, and ...
Widow returns to rubble of her home Police say looters were chased from Plum Island site
Dec 01, 2008; ... It's been a devastating week for Geri Buzzotta, who was told bypolice Saturday that the pile of rubble that was once her PlumIsland oceanfront home had been picked through by looters. Buzzotta's house was deemed unsafe the night before Thanksgivingand it was quickly demolished to ...
Tazawa agrees to 3-year Red Sox contract
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the absence of big offseason news, the Red Sox are continuingto put smaller pieces in place. This week, they likely will confirmone of the worst-kept secrets in baseball. Junichi Tazawa is coming to Boston. According to a baseball source, the 22-year-old Tazawa willarrive ...
His bomb detector is out of this world
Dec 01, 2008; ... MEETING THE MINDS / ASTROPHYSICIST JIM RYAN Jim Ryan says the problem with being an astrophysicist is thatyou often get asked the same question: What good is all this stuffyou're studying in outer space? "Because we're curious and want to be smarter," used to be hisshort ...
DIVERTED, BUT HOME
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College president, teach thyself
Dec 01, 2008 ... THE MOTTO of Suffolk University is "Honestas et Diligentia,"meaning, roughly, "Honor and diligence." Unfortunately, thepresident and board of trustees at Suffolk seem to have a tin earfor Latin translations. As the Globe reported recently, Suffolk president David Sargentwas ...
They reigned with iron fist Steelers' forecast called for pain
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - The defense? Everyone knows by now aboutPittsburgh's D and how it leads the NFL in rushing, passing, totaldefense, homeland defense, and just about every other defensivecategory known to man. OK, maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration,but maybe it wasn't such a far-fetched ...
IN BRIEF
Dec 01, 2008 ... THURSTON, Murray "Mike" - In Paris, Maine, Nov. 25 at 87. Anative of Bethel and a graduate of ...
High Tech 25
Dec 01, 2008 ... Raytheon debuts a sensor to help scientists understand globalwarming; American Tower Corp. earmarked $500 million to acquire astake in an Indian telecom tower company. LAST MARKET CAP LAST PCT. NO. WEEK COMPANY TICKER (MILLIONS) PRICE CHANGE 1 1 EMC Corp. EMC $31,638 ...
White Coat Notes
Dec 01, 2008; ... Excerpts from the Globe's blog on the Boston-area medicalcommunity. Melton as `Person of the Year'? Harvard cell biologist Douglas Melton is in the running forTime's Person of the Year, at least according to the magazine'sonline poll. His current 21,000-plus votes ...
Last week's most e-mailed stories
Dec 01, 2008 ... 1. Heart attack, eh? Boss may be the cause Workers saddled with inconsiderate managers were 60 percent morelikely to get a cardiac condition, researchers report. 2. HDTV shoppers in line for bargains Prices for high-definition televisions are expected to ...
The TB-HIV crisis
Dec 01, 2008; ... OVER the past two decades, the fight against HIV/AIDS has unitedthe world as few other issues have before. As a result of theextraordinary efforts of scientists, activists, and world leaders,AIDS has gone from being a certain death sentence in most parts ofthe world to a treatable ...
Changing the cost of healthcare
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE RECENT report by The Boston Globe Spotlight team raisedimportant questions about the cost and quality of healthcare inMassachusetts. Some hospitals and physicians receive higher rates ofreimbursement from insurers compared with their peers. As the Globeobserves, this imbalance is ...
Calendar uncovers a community's spirit Men of Barre ready, willing, and able to help
Dec 01, 2008; ... About 2,500 men live in Barre, and Suzanne Fullam persuaded 80 ofthem to take off their clothes. The men posed for an all-male, all-nude 2009 calendar, which isbeing sold to raise money for the town's recently renovated WoodsMemorial Library. She got the idea a few years ago, ...
A NEW WARNING FROM OLD NORTH CHURCH
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Walter Boverini; represented Lynn's interests on Beacon Hill
Dec 01, 2008; ... Walter Boverini had a lot of pride and many loves, relativessaid. He loved teaching. He loved football. He loved his work in statepolitics. He took pride in the City of Lynn, where he spent his entirelife. The former state senator and state Senate majority leader ...
Bruins can dig deeper Their depth chart reveals no holes
Dec 01, 2008; ... They are among the league's unquestioned elites: NicklasLidstrom, Brian Rafalski, Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk, andMarian Hossa. Together, they bring skill, speed, strength, two-wayexcellence, puck-moving ability, and hockey sense that any coachwould love to deploy against the ...
Manufacturing index apt to bring more bad news
Dec 01, 2008 ... INVESTOR CALENDAR TODAY The Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturingindex for November. Manufacturing, which accounts for about 12percent of the economy, is expected to have dropped for a fourthconsecutive month. TOMORROW Major automakers ...
Cassel won't read and react to losing
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - Matt Cassel isn't going to read this, so there's noneed to sugarcoat it: If last week was, as Randy Moss termed it,hellified ball, yesterday was more like petrified ball. After back-to-back 400-yard performances, Cassel came back toearth against the Steelers yesterday ...
DNA gleaned from ancient coral unlocks clues about warming
Dec 01, 2008; ... The skeletons in the Earth's closet reveal not only a dark past.They also cast a light on its future. That is what Tim Shank discovered when he sent an underwaterrobot to sweep up a basket full of broccoli-like fossils fromvolcanoes under the sea. Shank, a researcher at Woods ...
Eagles in a sunshine state It's another meeting with Hokies to decide ACC title
Dec 01, 2008; ... This week will be another game week for the Boston Collegefootball team. No big deal, unless one examines which Atlantic CoastConference programs are not preparing to play Saturday. Not Atlantic Division preseason favorites such as Wake Forest orFlorida State. Not Miami or North ...
Helen Bidgood, at 87; began nursing career on the European battlefields of WWII
Dec 01, 2008; ... Helen Jean (McCabe) Bidgood cut her nursing teeth in hospitals inthe heart of the World War II battlefields of England and Germany,surrounded by wounded and dying soldiers. Like so many of those returning from war, the longtime Melroseresident did not talk much about her time ...
A win-win situation Pierce scoring some rest with Celtics rolling along
Dec 01, 2008; ... The games are piling up for the Celtics, and so are thevictories. Paul Pierce realized the Celtics had not lost for some time,noting after an 89-84 win at Charlotte Saturday: "We've won six,seven in a row." Make that eight, by an average of 12.5 points going intotonight's ...
This match still may spark firestorm
Dec 01, 2008; ... National college football This much seems certain. When the Bowl Championship Series titlegame is held Jan. 8 in Miami it will be a team from the Big 12against one from the Southeastern Conference. Just which teams they will be is the only uncertainty. Here's why this ...
Montgomery, UConn cruise No.4 Sooners prove no match
Dec 01, 2008 ... College roundup Senior guard Renee Montgomery had a career-high 30 points andmatched the Connecticut record with 13 assists to help the top-ranked Huskies rout No. 4 Oklahoma, 106-78, last night in Storrs,Conn. It was the first time Oklahoma gave up over 100 points ...
Gloucester, Masconomet in familiar surroundings Apponequet's focus directed on Duxbury
Dec 01, 2008; ... Division 2A playoff football preview For the third time in the past calendar year, Masconomet willplay Gloucester. The Division 2A playoff game - tomorrow at Manning Field in Lynnat 5:15 p.m. - is a rematch of last year's postseason game, whichGloucester won, ...
John DiFruscio, 66; priest traveled own path of service
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fresh out of college with a bachelor's degree in microbiology in1964, John DiFruscio appeared to be headed down a scientific path. Instead, he enrolled in the seminary. Studying for the priesthood tested his mind in a different way,he later told longtime friend Lois M. Bennett ...
DISCOVERIES
Dec 01, 2008 ... OBESITY Bypassing surgery might be possible Controlling obesity in our country has proven difficult. Drugs,diet, and behavioral changes are difficult to sustain. Gastricbypass surgery, where surgeons exclude part of the stomach and theintestine from the flow of food, is ...
Mansfield still feeling the sting It's out for revenge vs. Feehan; Reading, Walpole set to collide
Dec 01, 2008; ... Division 2 playoff football preview They have waited a year for this game. In last year's Division 2 playoffs, Mansfield was favored todefeat Bishop Feehan and advance to the Super Bowl. That didn't happen, as Feehan came back from a 14-0 deficit towin, ...
AIDS and the unknown
Dec 01, 2008 ... TWO YEARS ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionrecommended that health providers offer voluntary HIV testing on aroutine basis, much like cholesterol screening. The goal was toreduce the high proportion - more than 20 percent - of infectedpersons who do not know they carry ...
How do anticling sprays work?
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ask Dr. Knowledge First we need to quickly review static electricity. Normally, the atoms that make up the objects around us have equalnumbers of positively charged protons in their nuclei and negativelycharged electrons in orbit for a total electric charge of zero. Ifyou put ...
10 firms join panel on green business Environmental efficiency is key
Dec 01, 2008; ... Meet Beacon Hill's newest environmental advocates: Legal SeaFoods, Genzyme, and Millipore. Ten leading Boston-area companies have joined a corporate councilof the Environmental League of Massachusetts to advocate forenvironmental policies, help develop new regulations, and provide ...
A balm for hard times
Dec 01, 2008 ... THIS YEAR, even Globe Santa feels the economic chill. His mail isfull of letters from parents and grandparents who are strugglingwith bills but still want their children to have a good Christmas. In the face of this historic economic decline, Globe Santa isstill determined to ...
Study links asthma rate to birth month
Dec 01, 2008; ... Babies born four months before the peak of cold and flu season -in other words, roughly now - are 30 percent more likely to developchildhood asthma than children born at any other time of year, newresearch suggests. The findings speak to doctors' longstanding question of ...
Faulk a lone bright spot He delivers the goods once again
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - The 134th regular-season game of Kevin Faulk'scareer isn't one he'll remember fondly. True, he was one of the few bright spots on a downright dismalday, but the Patriots' five turnovers and the team's 33-10 loss tothe Steelers were what were on Faulk's mind ...
The Green Blog
Dec 01, 2008; ... Excerpts from the Globe's environmental blog. The Paper Chase: Can you recycle another pound? There has been an enormous amount of academic study aroundrecycling: Who recycles, what motivates people - even how best touse psychology to stimulate "pro-recycling" ...
The poor are still with us
Dec 01, 2008; ... MELTDOWN. Recession. Crisis. Economic developments of the last several months have gotteneveryone's attention. People are losing their homes as theirmortgages are foreclosed. Workers are losing their jobs, and oftentheir family's health insurance, as unemployment rises to ...
Patriots QB harried by Harrison Linebacker was force throughout
Dec 01, 2008; ... FOXBOROUGH - James Harrison stood in his corner of the Steelerslocker room, his work terrorizing the Patriots done for the evening,and held court for a small cluster of reporters. One of them askedhim if he felt unstoppable. Well, he reasoned aloud, anyone can bestopped. "He ...
Professor's blog chronicled the terror MGH researcher was visiting his kin in Mumbai
Dec 01, 2008; ... Arun Shanbhag awoke at dawn Thursday, ready for his daily 4-milejog through Mumbai, but was blocked by his mother, who washysterical and insisting that he not leave their second-floor flat. A block away, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel had smokebillowing out from the windows ...
Democrats may tax health benefits They discuss exclusion limit for wealthier
Dec 01, 2008; ... A NEW PRESIDENT WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, itwas one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's strongest attack lines: JohnMcCain, they warned, would "tax your healthcare benefits for thefirst time ever." But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge ...
Hope in the air There's no scientific proof oxygen chamber therapy will cure such things as autism - but parents see a reason to believe
Dec 01, 2008; ... NORTH READING - The hyperbaric chamber is beige, about as big asa midsize sedan, and shaped like a capsule. Inside, Michele Eugene'sson is fretful and restless. She can hear him moan. "Scott, you have to listen to Mom," she pleads through aporthole. "You have 22 minutes left. You ...
LG's new phone incites some excitement
Dec 01, 2008; ... MOBILE PHONES Readers of this column might already know I'm a sucker for thelooks of LG's products. Their straight lines and brushed metalfinishes and cheery electronic noises get me every time. The LG Incite looks like just like the LG fridge (with freezerunder, of course) ...
THE ECONOMY ON OUR MINDS
Dec 01, 2008 ... Embrace looming deficit, our salvation AS THE federal budget deficit looks as though it will pass wellbeyond $1 trillion in this fiscal year (Page A1, Nov. 23), we hearcalls for abandoning new programs. But it is precisely new programs -and the large deficit that they create ...