The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 2005:
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HOW SWEET IT IS
Aug 01, 2005 ... THE CORN is in the real stuff, not the imports from Florida andfew people are neutral on the subject. The locally grown white andyellow pearls of summer can have people debating how to buy, cook,and eat them with an intensity that rivals talk show passions forpolitics and ...
MUBARAK'S TACTICS
Aug 01, 2005 ... EGYPT'S PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak made two very politicalannouncements last week, illustrating a worldly insight common toruling elites in many societies: a recognition that for things toremain basically the same, they must be allowed to change a little. The aim of Mubarak's ...
RIGHT WHALE EMERGENCY
Aug 01, 2005 ... IN THE days of Moby Dick, men nearly hunted the North Atlanticright whale to extinction. Now Harpoon is just a Boston brewery, butthe killing goes on. Collisions with ships and entanglement withfishing gear are taking a toll on the marine mammals, which numberonly about 350. As quickly ...
HALLMARK OF BOGGS WAS HIS PLATE DISCIPLINE
Aug 01, 2005; BOB RYAN ... COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Why should we not be surprised that a thirdbaseman playing for Elmira's New York-Penn League team in 1976 founda little free time to sneak away for a visit to the Baseball Hall ofFame? Wade Boggs always did have his eye on the prize. It's official now ....
DILLON RUSHING TO PROVE THERE WILL BE NO DROPOFF
Aug 01, 2005; Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff ... FOXBOROUGH During the Patriots' open week this season (aftertheir sixth game), Corey Dillon will be on the other side of the bigThree-O. For many running backs that spells the beginning of the end,though Dillon has enough examples, like the Jets' Curtis Martinwinning the rushing ...
POSITIVES OUTWEIGH NEGATIVES
Aug 01, 2005; GORDON EDES ... When it was over, the Red Sox owner with the background in showbizpronounced a proper benediction. "What a weekend," Tom Werner wrote in an e-mail. "Hollywood isn'tthis interesting." For that, we all have Manny Ramirez to thank. But while it came asa relief to anyone who ...
RAMIREZ STAYS PUT TRIUMPHANTLY AFTER TRADE TALK, TIME OFF, UPBEAT SOX SLUGGER DELIVERS GAME-WINNER
Aug 01, 2005; Gordon Edes, Globe Staff ... The rumbling in the stands began as soon as he stood up in the RedSox dugout, a bat in his hand, and was a full-throttled, foot-stomping roar by the time he emerged from the dugout late yesterdayafternoon at Fenway Park. Baseball's trading deadline had passed,Manny Ramirez was still in a ...
ELECTRIC MAN RAMIREZ STAYS, LIGHTS UP FENWAY
Aug 01, 2005; Chris Snow, Globe Staff ... On the bench, the future 24-year-old Jon Papelbon, who'd pitched5 1/3 innings, and 23-year-old Manny Delcarmen, who'd relievedPapelbon watched in awe, knowing that as much as this day would beremembered for their Fenway debuts, there was something greaterunfolding. They watched ...
THE NEW (DIGITAL) MOVIE MOGULS
Aug 01, 2005; SCOTT KIRSNER ... Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner intend to change the way you see newmovies, and they're not waiting for the Hollywood establishment toget on board. The two wealthy entrepreneurs they started streamingmedia pioneer Broadcast.com and sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion could be to the 21st ...
SURVIVORS INNOVATION HAS ALLOWED OLD-LINE BAY STATE CMPANIES TO COMPETE WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED
Aug 01, 2005; Robert Gavin, Globe Staff ... The economic changes of recent decades have buffeted any number oftraditional industries, sweeping away companies, jobs and ways oflife. But even as recessions, new technologies, and foreigncompetition take their toll, some old-line firms still find ways tosurvive. How do they do ...
START-UP SLASHES COST OF INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS CAMBRIDGE FIRM USES SKYPE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE CELLPHONE CALLS
Aug 01, 2005; Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff ... CAMBRIDGE In just one year, computer users around the world havedownloaded 140 million copies of the Skype program that lets themmake free phone calls over the Internet to other Skype users. Now a Kendall Square start-up is pushing Skype into a newfrontier: cellphones. Through a ...
IRAQI ASSEMBLY MEMBERS BALANCE DEATH, DEMOCRACY
Aug 01, 2005; Thanassis Cambanis, Globe Staff ... BAGHDAD Every day, Telba Attia used to drive through the heart ofthe insurgency to her job teaching agriculture at the universitycampus in Abu Ghraib, shrugging off with the aplomb of an academicthe violence that might kill her at random. Now, however, Attia, a member of the ...
THE FINGERPRINT OF PAPER SCIENTISTS DEVISE NEW WAY TO FOIL FORGERIES
Aug 01, 2005; Gareth Cook, Globe Staff ... At a time of rising concern about terrorism, British scientistslast week announced that they had discovered a relatively inexpensiveand surprisingly powerful new way to defeat forgers attempting tofake birth certificates, passports, and other documents. The scientists built a laser ...
HARVARD IMPROVES ON TENURE OFFERS TO WOMEN HALTS 3-YEAR DECLINE WITH SUMMERS AT HELM
Aug 01, 2005; Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff ... During a year in which the status of women at Harvard Universitywas the focus of unprecedented attention, the university's Faculty ofArts and Sciences reversed the decline in tenured job offers to womenthat occurred in each of the first three years of Lawrence H.Summers's presidency. ...
MANNY MANIA: FAITHFUL REJOICE OVER A PRODIGAL SON
Aug 01, 2005; Peter Schworm, GLOBE STAFF ... It was a roller-coaster day for Olivia Ragon, a ponytailed 12-year-old from Melrose. First thing yesterday morning, she asked herfather if her favorite Red Sox player, Manny Ramirez, had been tradedovernight. Not yet, he said. So, in her blue No. 24 Ramirez jersey, she headed ...
REMOVAL OF OVARIES MAY AFFECT HEART CAUTION URGED ON OVARY REMOVAL IN HYSTERECTOMIES
Aug 01, 2005; Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff ... Among the 600,000 American women who have hysterectomies eachyear, thousands may die prematurely of heart disease because doctorsremoved their ovaries along with their wombs, a new study suggests. It has been medical practice to remove the ovaries of a womanolder than 40 or 45 who ...
MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III MAY HAVE BEEN HIS DOCTORS' FAULT
Aug 01, 2005; Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff ... Nearly two centuries after King George III famously mistook alarge tree for a Prussian king, peed red- and blue-tinged urine, anddied blind, deaf, and mad, scientists are still finalizing hisdiagnosis. In 1969, a mother-and-son team of psychiatrists with a penchantfor diagnosing ...
NEIGHBORS IN THE GRIP OF LAWLESSNESS MINISTER VOWS TO RECLAIM DORCHESTER 'HELL ZONE'
Aug 01, 2005; Megan Tench, Globe Staff ... In an effort to stem violence in Dorchester's Codman Square, theRev. Bruce Wall and supporters from Global Ministries have rented anapartment near a troubled street to see if they can ease the problemby their presence. A Globe reporter will provide daily reports fromthe ...
VIETNAMESE ACTIVISTS LOOK PAST NAILS, FLOORS PUSH OTHER CAREER CHOICES FOR RECENT IMMIGRANTS
Aug 01, 2005; Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff ... Tram Vu's older sister does nails. Her friends do nails. Hercousin's in-laws do nails. So it was natural that Vu, 28, a Vietnamese immigrant, would endup doing nails as well. Eight years after relatives gave Vu her firstsalon job, she owns her own shop. She makes a decent living, ...
THE VITAMIN PARADOX NUTRIENTS IN FOOD ARE HEALTHIER THAN THOSE IN PILLS
Aug 01, 2005; STEPHEN SMITH ... On the surface, it makes all the sense in the world: Since fruits,vegetables, and fish contain loads of healthy nutrients, why notisolate those vitamins, put them in pills, and gobble them up? Andwouldn't more be better? Then we could just skip the strawberries, spinach, and ...
CITY SAID NO TO REMEDIES IN VOTING BIAS CASE CITES LACK OF DATA FROM US
Aug 01, 2005; Donovan Slack, GLOBE STAFF ... Municipal officials say federal authorities proposed remedies forelection law violations that allegedly discriminated against Hispanicand Asian-American voters, but the city has decided to fight thematter in court. The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Friday in US ...
MAN WITH A MISSION
Aug 01, 2005; ADRIAN WALKER ... Pastor Bruce Wall, clad in shirt sleeves, wasn't preaching aboutgetting into heaven yesterday. No, yesterday's lesson was aboutloving thy neighbor as thyself. He quoted from Luke, but he meant thelesson in a specific and contemporary sense. Yesterday was the day for Wall to move ...
BSO ADDS SPLASH TO TANGLEWOOD GRAF, VON STADE REIGN WITH BSO BY RICHARD DYER
Aug 01, 2005; Richard Dyer, Globe Staff ... LENOX Guest conductor Hans Graf had barely begun Tchaikovsky's"Pathetique" Symphony Saturday night at Tanglewood when a huge uproararose from the lawn behind the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Part of thesprinkler system had been activated, and some of the 3,000 people onthe lawn got soaked ....
MATTAPAN DUPLEX BURNS
Aug 01, 2005 ... Boston fire officials sent multiple engines and ladders last nightto answer a call about a fire at 7:25 p.m. at a duplex at 38 and 40Pleasant Hill Ave. The ...
DETAINEE TRIALS UNFAIR, PROSECUTORS ALLEGED
Aug 01, 2005 ... Confidential electronic messages obtained by The New York Timesindicate that two senior prosecutors alleged that the trial systemfor four Guantanamo Bay detainees had been secretly arranged toimprove the chances of conviction and keep from the defendantsexculpatory material. One ...
STEM-CELL SUPPORTERS SEE SHIFT IN THE SENATE
Aug 01, 2005; Los Angeles Times ... Supporters of expanding federally funded stem cell researchexpressed optimism yesterday that fresh support from the Senate'stop Republican, majority leader Bill Frist, would help them build aveto-proof majority in Congress. Senator Arlen Specter, Republicanof Pennsylvania, a key ...
MAN RAMS CRUISER; 2 OFFICERS HURT
Aug 01, 2005 ... An unidentified man slammed his Honda Accord into a police cruiseryesterday in Jamaica Plain, injuring two officers, police said. Theman, who was at large last night, jumped out of his car after ...
POWELL PULLS OUT OF WORLD 100 METERS
Aug 01, 2005 ... TRACK & FIELD A groin injury will prevent world record-holder Asafa Powell fromrunning in the 100 meters at the World Track & Field championshipsin Helsinki, his agent said. The 22-year-old Jamaican pulled up witha torn ligament in his right groin at the Crystal Palace meet ...
DINING
Aug 01, 2005; Meredith Goldstein ... Summer weather calls for leisurely lunches for the sad and cubicle-bound. As such, UpStairs on the Square invites all to therestaurant's Zebra Room for a midday escape. The restaurant's summerlunch menu includes a delectable soft-shell crab sandwich ($15), asirloin cheeseburger ($13) ...
ASK THE CHEF
Aug 01, 2005 ... THE SEARED SCALLOP APPETIZER I HAD AT SEL DE LA TERRE WAS THE BESTPART OF THE MEAL (AND THE MEAL WAS QUITE GOOD!) IT'S ...
N. KOREA'S CHOICE: NUKES OR BUTTER
Aug 01, 2005 ... I CAN'T GET over the irony contained in the twin news stories onNorth Korea that appeared in last Wednesday's Globe ("As aid lags, N.Koreans go hungry," Page A10; "US, N. Korea resume talks on nuclearban," Page A11). One story points out that the United States has pledged ...
MORE DAYLIGHT IS A GOOD THING
Aug 01, 2005 ... I AM writing in response to Alex Beam's column aboutRepresentative Ed Markey's proposal to "shorten winter, lengthensummer, and save energy" ("Dim-witted proposal for daylight time,"Living/Arts, July 26). Unlike Beam, I think Markey's plan to saveenergy is admirable, and clearly the ...
I'LL FONDLY REMEMBER FILENE'S
Aug 01, 2005 ... AS A LONGTIME shopper in west suburban Boston, I believe that theFilene's name was greatly diminished long before the latesttransition ("It's official: Filene's brand will be gone," Page A1,July 29). It appears that was the handiwork of the May DepartmentStores, which bought the ...
OUR RIGHTS SHOULDN'T BE A CASUALTY
Aug 01, 2005 ... WHEN ARE the watchdogs of liberty going to really speak, nay,shout out, about the government's outrageous encroachment on theconstitutional rights of the individual? In a so-called war against the "ghostly terrorists," people areaccepting the dangers of a police state inhabited by ...
THE MAN WHO HELD 'MR. VICTORY'
Aug 01, 2005 ... I RECEIVED a phone call from my niece who had read the article"Where's `Little Mr. Victory'?" (op ed, July 25) and remembered hermom telling her about my experience on the day the war with Japanended in 1945. I was a student at Boston Latin, and I sold newspapers on BostonCommon ...
ONCE UPON A NOMAR
Aug 01, 2005; SAMANTHA POWER ... IN 1979 my mother moved my younger brother and me to Pittsburghfrom Ireland. She somehow knew enough to take her 9-year-old daughterto a ballgame within 48 hours of landing. All my life I'd been toldthat Ireland had the greenest grass in the world, but from my newvantage point in the ...
IRA LESSON: COMPROMISE AND INCLUSION
Aug 01, 2005 ... WHETHER planned or not, the timing of the Irish Republican Army'sannouncement to disarm just a week after a second round of bombingsin London is significant and instructive ("IRA announces end ofviolent campaign," Page A1, July 29). Forty years of arrests, secretpolice, torture, and the ...
REQUIEM FOR THE IRA
Aug 01, 2005; PADRAIG O'malley ... FOR THOSE with their ears to the ground in Belfast, the news thatthe IRA decided to abandon its armed struggle came as no greatsurprise. The end was a long time coming, a reluctant inevitabilitysince the Good Friday Agreement opened the way to Northern Ireland'suneasy peace in ...
LIVING ALONE GIVES THEM ROOM TO GROW
Aug 01, 2005; Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Correspondent ... Oliver Sicat fondly remembers the randomness, rituals, andcompanionship from his days living with others. "I always had atleast one roommate since high school," says Sicat, a 26-year-old highschool teacher who lives in the Back Bay. When living with others, Sicat reminisces, social ...
WHY ROBERTS'S RELIGION MATTERS
Aug 01, 2005; CATHY YOUNG ... THE SUPREME COURT nomination of Judge John Roberts has reignitedthe controversy over faith and the confirmation process. Lawprofessor Jonathan Turley has reported in The Los Angeles Times thatduring a meeting with Roberts on Capitol Hill, Senator Dick Durbin,Democrat of Illinois, asked ...
CHRONICLING PAKISTAN'S CONFLICTED PAST
Aug 01, 2005; Kenneth Cooper, Globe Staff ... An old joke told by Pakistanis holds that three A's count in theircountry: Allah, army, and America. In his insightful history of hishomeland, Husain Haqqani shows it is no joke and basically has beenthat way since Pakistan's violent birth in 1947 as a haven forMuslims from the dominant ...
CHESS NOTES
Aug 01, 2005; HAROLD DONDIS AND PATRICK WOLFF, GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS ... There have been reports of players at Big Money chess tournamentsbeing in possession of cellphones. Players have forfeited a game inwhich they have received calls, apparently in error. Many years ago,a player was caught red-handed in communication with a computer.There is a lot of ...
BOSTON CAN'T PUT A KRUMP IN ITS STYLE
Aug 01, 2005; Malena Amusa, Globe Correspondent ... Naomi Davis recalls the moment she started to get it when shegyrated and pumped her back in and out so fast to a percussive hip-hop beat that her headphones popped out of her ears. "I krumped to see what would happen," says the 40-year-old Newtonresident, who tried the dance in ...
STANDOUT STAND-IN
Aug 01, 2005; CAROL BEGGY & MARK SHANAHAN ... (3) As the understudy for P. Diddy in last year's production of"A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway, Billy Eugene Jones didn't figureto see the footlights much. The Yale grad was really just a hedge inthe event the artist formerly known as Sean Combs needed a night off.As it turned out, ...
CASA NUEVA VIDA TURNS 18 IN STYLE
Aug 01, 2005; BILL BRETT ... More than 400 guests attended a fund-raiser for Casa Nueva Vida,which was celebrating its 18th anniversary. Located in Jamaica ...
THIS SUMMER, ART ANNOTATES LIFE
Aug 01, 2005; J.P. McCORMICK ... `With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls ofevery power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance," NormanMailer wrote in "The Deer Park." It seems a lot of artists are takinghis words to heart this summer. A lot has been made of the apparent jabs at ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Aug 01, 2005 ... Rock Star: INXS 9:30 p.m., Ch. 4 Starring Kim Cattrall as Tara, Willem Dafoe as Mig, and KyanDouglas as Brandon. CSI: Miami 10 p.m., Ch. 4 A modern-day act of piracy on a ship? Ahoy-yoy-yoy. ICON Private Screenings 8 p.m., TCM Lauren Bacall drags ...
BRUINS ISSUE SOME OFFERS
Aug 01, 2005; Nancy Marrapese-Burrell, Globe Staff ... There might be some surprises when the National Hockey League'sunrestricted free agent period opens at noon today. However,yesterday there weren't any. The Bruins announced the 13 players towhom they'd made qualifying offers before the 5 p.m. deadline alongwith those they didn't make ...
ELS OUT OF DEUTSCHE BANK
Aug 01, 2005; Jim McCabe, Globe Staff ... Ernie Els's season-ending knee surgery means he'll miss the PGAChampionship (Aug. 11-14), thus ending his run of 50 consecutivestarts in golf's major championships. It also means that organizersof the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston in Norton won't havea clean sweep of the ...
GAMMONS IS HONORED FOR SPREADING THE WORD
Aug 01, 2005; BOB RYAN ... Modern sportswriting began with Dick Young. Modern baseballwriting began with Peter Gammons. Am I biased? Absolutely. We've been friends since starting work asGlobe summer interns June 10, 1968. We worked on the same story thatday. Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated late in the ...
POWELL PULLS OUT OF WORLD 100 METERS
Aug 01, 2005 ... TRACK & FIELD A groin injury will prevent world record-holder Asafa Powell fromrunning in the 100 meters at the World Track & Field championships inHelsinki, his agent said. The 22-year-old Jamaican pulled up with atorn ligament in his right groin at the Crystal Palace meet in ...
HIGH-WATER MARKS US DOMINATES WORLD MEET AGAIN
Aug 01, 2005; JOHN POWERS ... MONTREAL What does it say when Michael Phelps wins five goldmedals and leaves here disappointed? Probably that USA Swimming hasset an enormously high standard during the past half century. When the froth finally settled after eight days at the biennialworld swimming championships ...
PROSPECT PAPELBON WAS POISED
Aug 01, 2005; Kelsie Smith, GLOBE CORRESPONDENT ... Jon Papelbon sat in front of his locker yesterday, getting readyfor his first major league start. He was alone, watching television,and looking every bit like the newcomer he was when David Wells, justa couple lockers down, reached over and introduced himself. "Hi, Jon Papelbon ....
ONE-SIDED ARGUMENT BROWN LIKELY ONLY A WR THIS SEASON
Aug 01, 2005; Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff ... FOXBOROUGH Barring an unexpected number of injuries to defensivebacks, Troy Brown will stick to receiver this season. "We would definitely prefer not to play him on defense," Patriotscoach Bill Belichick said at his late-morning news conferenceyesterday. "We didn't want to play ...
MUELLER, MATES HAPPY HE'S STICKING AROUND
Aug 01, 2005; Chris Snow, Globe Staff ... Somewhere, beneath that emotionless facade and that monotone voicethat have earned Bill Mueller the moniker "Billy Ballgame" among histeammates, there must have been a release of anxiety, a feeling ofcontentment knowing that the work he's begun this season he can seethrough to the ...
DELIVERY SPEED BESTS INDIAN RIVAL
Aug 01, 2005; ROBERT GAVIN, GLOBE STAFF ... After taking over his family's leather goods business in the1960s, Leonard S. Chace III decided the company had to expand aproduct line consisting mainly of transmission belts for textilelooms. Among the additions: cases for slide rules. Needless to say, it wasn't the last time ...
NOTHING COUNTERFEIT ABOUT SUCCESS
Aug 01, 2005; ROBERT GAVIN, GLOBE STAFF ... In the mid-19th century, Berkshire County paper maker Crane & Co.devised a way to stop counterfeiters from bleaching bank notes andreprinting them as higher denominations. Crane weaved silk threadsinto its paper, distinguishing $1 notes with a single thread, $2notes with two threads and ...
TIMELY DECISIONS MAKE DIFFERENCE
Aug 01, 2005; ROBERT GAVIN, GLOBE STAFF ... Fraen Corp.'s first products were metal clock hands. Its latest:microscopes using light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. In between is aremarkable story of business development, investment, and productevolution. Founded in Reading more than 60 years ago, Fraen primarily mademetal hands ...
IT'S SIMPLE: CHANGE, FLEXIBILITY KEY
Aug 01, 2005; ROBERT GAVIN, GLOBE STAFF ... Howard Greis has a simple business strategy: "Survive until thenext opportunity." Over the course of 43 years that has meant sellinghis young company when it hit hard times; buying it back a decadelater; and subsequently expanding into new markets whenever he hadthe ...
HOME ENTERTAINMENT ON A NOTEBOOK
Aug 01, 2005; JOHN P. MELLO JR. ... Some contend that if Microsoft's Media Center Edition of WindowsXP is going to break through the barrier between the living room andthe home office, it's going to have to do it on the notebookplatform. Toshiba is taking that notion seriously with its new lineof Qosmio ...
A NEW BATTERY FOR THE POWER-HUNGRY
Aug 01, 2005; HIAWATHA BRAY ... Just what we need new batteries. The kind we currently use aren'tnearly good enough. They're heavy, bulky, and always going dead on usat inconvenient moments. Yet we need more of them each year, to powera growing inventory of portable gadgets. The machines keep gettingcheaper, more ...
VINCENT COGLIANO, OPERATED HALL PLUMBING COMPANY, 78
Aug 01, 2005; Emma Stickgold, Globe Correspondent ... Vincent Cogliano was a plumber whose "golden hands" helped thawfrozen water lines, fix heating systems, and unclog countless pipeson the South Shore. On Friday, Mr. Cogliano died at New England Medical Center after along battle with cancer. He was 78. Mr. Cogliano ran ...
DETROIT'S FUTURE IN SHARP FOCUS FOR MAYORAL RACE VOTE SEEN AS CRUIAL TO STRUGGLING CITY'S RENAISSANCE EFFORT
Aug 01, 2005; Tom Nugent, Globe Correspondent ... DETROIT Encouraged by the recent rentals of more than 500 upscaleloft apartments in previously vacant downtown buildings, 6,000 newjobs, and dozens of new stores and restaurants, some Detroitofficials are convinced that their tattered city is finding its wayback from decades of decay ...
INFANTS BORN AT NIGHT MAY BE AT GREATER RISK OF DYING
Aug 01, 2005; KADESHA M. THOMAS ... CHILDBIRTH Babies born during daytime hours are significantly more likely toreach their one-month birthdays than those born at night, accordingto new research from Stanford University. The analysis of birth anddeath certificates for 3.3 million infants born in California ...
DOCTOR IS COMFORTABLE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
Aug 01, 2005; Keith O'Brien, Globe Correspondent ... Doctors sometimes sit around and talk about what they would bedoing if they weren't saving lives. The joke at Tufts-New EnglandMedical Center, said one staffer, is that Ivan Frantz III would berunning a service station. It's not an insult. Frantz, 60, will tell you right up front: ...
