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...March 10, 2004, the Boston Globe ran an article on the increasing numbers of high school students who are educated at home. The article stated that although home schooling was once the domain of religious fundamentalists, today many moderate parents choose to educate their children at home through twelfth grade, and then send them to regular colleges. Carey’s family was featured in the article as part of the trend, and her mother, Maureen Carey, was described as a Quaker and a pacifist...
...FLORENCE Globe trotters drop in at the Santa Maria Novella pharmacy for all-natural beauty products like cocoa-butter hand cream ($45) and pomegranate soap...
...poll conducted last week by The Boston Globe shows that Massachusetts residents of voting age are evenly divided on the issue of gay marriage: 47 percent register in support, 47 percent in opposition, and 6 percent, like myself, are still working...
...just state for the record here that I don’t believe in the ‘Curse of the Bambino’—a concept essentially invented by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy when he first published his book of the same title about 15 years ago. The Red Sox have not won a World Series since 1918 because of absolutely horrific management. The Sox routinely built their teams with expensive slow-footed power hitters who couldn’t play the field worth a lick. Instead of investing in pitching, speed, or defense...
What the murder of the four security specialists did reveal is a little known reality about how business is done in war-torn settings all over the globe. With U.S. troops still having to battle insurgents and defend themselves, the job of protecting everyone else in Iraq--from journalists to government contractors to the U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer--is largely being done by private security companies stocked with former soldiers looking for good money and the taste of danger. Pentagon officials count roughly 20 private companies around the world that contract for security work, mainly in combat...