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News Notes – April 11
Picket lines increasingly rare sight as the ranks of organized labor thin By Katie Johnston Chase – Globe Staff / April 11, 2010 Supermarket shoppers in the Boston area have been seeing a rare sight over the past month: workers on strike. Shaw’s employees have been picketing in front of 16 local Shaw’s stores since [...]
News Notes – April 1
Collector in Chief Hoards Nation’s Irreplaceable Stuff By SAM ROBERTS/NYT – March 31, 2010 WASHINGTON — In 1961 David S. Ferriero, a grandson of Italian immigrants and great-grandson of Irish ones, was a high school sophomore in Beverly, Mass. He wrote a brief letter to President John F. Kennedy inquiring about the proposed Peace Corps. [...]
News Notes – March 28
Robot event offers glimpse of secret project By Eric Moskowitz – Globe Staff / March 28, 2010 Forget ropes, ladders, and superpowers. Engineers at Draper Laboratory are working on a project for the military that could allow soldiers to mimic the wall-climbing ability of Spider-Man — and the glass-clinging power of Gecko-Man, if only such [...]
News Notes – February 25
No crackdown on assaults at colleges – Area schools reported 240 attacks, 4 ousters By Maggie Mulvihill and Joe Bergantino – New England Center For Investigative Reporting / February 25, 2010 Officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this week acknowledged that they allowed a student who confessed to raping a friend on campus last [...]
Print Edition: May 2012
