tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40038507012661341732024-03-13T19:26:18.365-07:00RandomWhat led a man to write a 1,905-page suicide note? What does it mean to have a library without books? What happens when the state makes it easier for neighbors to seek restraining orders against each other? Over the years, I have written a wide range of stories that don't fall into neat categories. Here are the highlights.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003850701266134173.post-41350312693313890002014-01-18T21:03:00.001-08:002014-02-03T18:46:48.421-08:00Nihilism Unbound<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What he </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_1" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_1" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></a><span class="hit" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">left behind: A 1,905-page suicide note</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the end, no one really knows what led Mitchell Heisman, an erudite, wry, handsome 35-year-old, to walk into Harvard Yard on the holiest day in his faith and fire one shot from a silver revolver into his right temple, on the top step of Memorial Church, where hundreds gathered to observe the Jewish Day of Atonement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But if the <a href="http://www.suicidenote.info/">1,905-page suicide note</a> he left is to be believed - a work he spent five years honing and that his family and others received in a posthumous e-mail after his suicide last Saturday morning on Yom Kippur - Heisman took his life as part of a philosophical exploration he called "an experiment in nihilism.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the end of his note, a dense, scholarly work with 1,433 footnotes, a 20-page bibliography, and more than 1,700 references to God and 200 references to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Heisman sums up his experiment:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Every word, every thought, and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless,'' he wrote. "The experiment in nihilism is to seek out and expose every illusion and every myth, wherever it may lead, no matter what, even if it kills us.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the years, as he became more immersed in his work, often laboring over it 12 hours a day, Heisman shared bits with friends and family but never elaborated on the extent of his nihilism - his hardened view that life is vapid and nonsensical, that values are pretense, that the "unreasoned conviction in the rightness of life over death is like a god or a mass delusion.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He told them he was working on a history of the Norman conquest of England, cloistered in a cramped apartment he shared in Somerville. They knew the clean-shaven young man from suburban New Jersey, who always called his elderly godmother on her birthday and once donated $200 to Harvard Hillel for sponsoring services at Memorial Church, to be intensely committed to his work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neither his mother, sister, nor the roommates from whom he sought forgiveness in the hours before he died had any idea he was about to kill himself. They and others have been groping for answers to why he did it and in such a public way, on such a holy day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``He was very cordial, very charming, you would never know that something was wrong,'' said Lonni Heisman, his mother. He frequently told her he loved her, and had recently visited to help her prepare for a move. ``I'm still in shock and I can't understand how he could have hid this,'' she said. ``He had everything going for him. He was in perfect health. He was handsome, smart, a good person. I'll never understand it.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She said he was a gregarious child who grew introverted after his father, an engineer, died of a heart attack when Mitchell was 12 years old. As he got older, he became increasingly bookish and went on to study psychology at the University at Albany in New York, where he seemed shy to friends and spent much of his time reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After college, Heisman worked at bookstores, including the Strand in Manhattan, enabling him to amass a library of thousands of books. About five years ago, he moved to Somerville to focus on writing and be near major university libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He led a Spartan existence, subsisting on microwave meals, chicken wings, and energy bars, and surviving mainly on money left to him after his father's death. He was tall, with dark eyes, and dated when he needed a break from his solitude, rarely having trouble attracting women. But he broke off the relationships quickly, saying he was too busy writing a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To help him concentrate, Heisman often listened to a constant loop of Bach's ``Well-Tempered Clavier,'' which he felt synthesized the mind's competing strains of emotion and reason, went to a gym daily, and took Ritalin, which his mother thinks may have induced depression and led to his suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of his longtime roommates, David Barnes, described Heisman as quiet and considerate, never angry. He engaged in conversation by asking questions; when he spoke he often gave deliberate, lengthy responses. ``He could get intense talking about his book,'' Barnes said. ``There was definitely a lot of emotion pent up in this project.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Barnes and relatives said Heisman bought the gun, a .38-caliber pistol, three years ago, though they don't know where, and they believe he had only one purpose for it: to commit suicide when he finished his book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``He wasn't going anywhere dangerous; he wasn't paranoid; he wasn't worried about anyone hurting him or breaking in,'' Barnes said. ``I couldn't imagine him buying a gun for any other reason.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A month ago, as he began wrapping up his writing, he asked Barnes if he would be a witness to the signing of his will. Barnes thought it was because he cared so much about his book and wanted to ensure it would be taken care of in case something happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two days before his suicide, Heisman seemed elated. He told his roommates he had finished the book. He spent the next day at the post office, buying stamps and preparing packages for friends and family, with the book on CDs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the morning of Yom Kippur, Heisman showered, shaved, and ate a breakfast of chicken fingers and lentils, some of which he left on the kitchen counter, something he rarely did. He put on a white tuxedo, with white shoes, a white tie, and white socks, and donned a ill-fitting trench coat, perhaps to hide the gun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At about 10 a.m., a half-hour or so before he would commit suicide in front of a group touring Harvard, Heisman walked into Barnes's room. He told him the white clothing was a Jewish tradition, even though he rarely practiced his religion and had given up on the concept of God. Appearing to be in a buoyant mood, he explained the significance of Yom Kippur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``He said he wanted me to know that if he ever did anything to offend me, he apologized and hoped that I would forgive him,'' Barnes said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his book, which he titled ``Suicide Note'' and scheduled to send to hundreds of people as an e-mail attachment about five hours after his death, Heisman produced an extraordinarily lengthy treatise on why life was not worth living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With chapter titles such as ``Philosophy, Cosmology, Singularity, New Jersey'' and ``How to Breed a God,'' and citing more than a hundred authors from futurist Ray Kurzweil to the biologist E.O. Wilson, Heisman explains how his views took shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The death of my father marked the beginning, or perhaps the acceleration, of a kind of moral collapse, because the total materialization of the world from matter to humans to literal subjective experience went hand in hand with a nihilistic inability to believe in the worth of any goal,'' he wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He saw his emotions as nothing more than a product of biology, as soulless as the workings of a machine, making them in essence an illusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``If life is truly meaningless and there is no rational basis for choosing among fundamental alternatives, then all choices are equal and there is no fundamental ground for choosing life over death,'' he concluded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The darkness of his views has been too much for his friends and family, many of whom have yet to read his suicide note.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It makes me sad and angry that he didn't care for any facet of life other than the book,'' Barnes said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As his sister, Laurel Heisman, spent last week sifting through what remains of his things - a poster in German, a well-made bed, piles of books in a small room shrouded with a dark curtain - she said she received a separate, posthumous note from him asking that she preserve a website he created to publish his book, a burden she has agreed to bear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I love you,'' he wrote to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She wishes she could have made him see more of the beauty of life, and how we create our own value and give our own meaning to life. She might have taken him up a mountain or held him more closely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``He just told us the safe things, because he knew we would have tried to stop him,'' she said. ``It's really hard. It's not like someone who was really depressed because they lost a lover. His whole ideology was wrapped in this concept of nihilism. I wish we could have made him see things differently.''</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span></i></div>
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Abel | </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Globe Staff | </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">April 12, 2011</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One man took his
neighbor to Malden District Court for allegedly blowing leaves on his property,
and a woman in Boston Municipal Court insisted that actor Chuck Norris used
high frequency radio transmissions to harass her at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there were the
two elderly neighbors who, nurturing old grudges, spent more than five hours
seeking restraining orders against each other in Plymouth District Court. One
said the other's nighttime strolls in black clothing were frightening; the
other said the first blocked him from crossing the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Court and law
enforcement officers have cited such cases, which were all rejected by judges,
as evidence that lawmakers should reconsider a year-old law that expands the
rules for who can seek a restraining order. Previously, filing was restricted
to relatives, household members, or someone intimately related to the person
said to be harassing them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Officials complain
the new law, which creates a category of restraining order called a harassment
prevention order, has led to a surge in filings. Too many of the cases are
frivolous, taxing the limited resources of courts and police departments, they
say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``Now, it's every
kook in the world who comes in and wants to file a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">harassment</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">order</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>against their
neighbor or landlord or someone who just annoys them,'' said Dan Hogan, clerk
magistrate of Boston Municipal Court. ``It's nuts. This is not what the law was
intended to do. We don't have enough people to be handling all these things.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harassment
prevention orders were meant to close a gap in the law that made it difficult
to obtain a restraining order against an acquaintance or stranger who engaged
in a range of harassing behavior, including stalking, threatening to damage
property, and sexual assault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since the law passed,
the number of restraining order filings has shot up. In the ten months
beginning in June, the number jumped 47 percent over the same period last year
in a sampling of more than half of the state's district courts. The courts list
new and traditional restraining orders together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Officials at the
Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, a state agency that helps residents
file restraining orders, said their clients sought 1,075 harassment prevention
orders between May and the end of February. Of those, 21 percent said they were
victims of stalking or sexual assault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harassment
prevention orders represented about 13 percent of the restraining orders sought
during that period. Judges granted a temporary harassment prevention order in
65 percent of the cases and long-term orders in nearly 33 percent of the cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Boston Municipal
Court, officials said there have been at least 318 harassment prevention orders
sought between May and the end of March, which compares to 327 requests in
Malden District Court, 179 in Plymouth District Court, and 44 in Holyoke
District Court during the same period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Proponents of the
law acknowledge that it burdens court resources and that it has sparked too
many complaints that do not belong before a judge. To be eligible for a harassment
prevention order, plaintiffs who were not sexually abused must cite three
occasions when they felt subjected to ``willful and malicious conduct.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Proponents say it
is too early to say whether the law should be amended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``There have been a
lot of frivolous cases, and we acknowledge that, but this is probably one of
the most important laws on the books for sexual assault and rape victims,''
said Colby Bruno, managing attorney for the Boston-based Victims Rights Law
Center, which spent years lobbying for the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She noted that an
estimated 85 percent of sexual assault victims know their assailants but lack a
substantive relationship with them. In the past, the victims' only other
options involved paying hundreds of dollars to seek a temporary restraining
order in Superior Court, which often required the help of a lawyer to comply
with court procedures. ``Even then, the only penalty was civil contempt if it
was violated,'' Bruno said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Under the new law,
victims alleging harassment merely have to sign a sworn statement and await
their date in court. ``Now, if a criminal violates a harassment prevention
order, they are criminally liable,'' Bruno said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pressure to pass
the law increased in 2003, after a Middlesex jury convicted Steven Caruso of
Medford of using a package bomb to kill Sandra Berfield, a 32-year-old waitress
in Everett who repeatedly rebuffed his romantic advances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``There was a
gaping hole in the legislation, and there were victims of criminal harassment,
stalking, and sexual assault who needed to have the ability to protect
themselves,'' said Helen Guyton, an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky and Popeo, PC, who helped shape the new law. ``This new order allows
victims of these different criminal acts to get the protection they need.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But court and law
enforcement officers say abuse of the law has become a burden, pointing out
that the state's trial courts have lost more than 1,000 positions due to budget
cuts since fiscal 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``It's been a
significant drain on resources,'' said Marybeth Brady, clerk magistrate in
Malden District Court, where harassment prevention orders this year account for
one-third of all restraining orders. ``We have a lot of neighbor disputes, and
landlord-tenant disputes. This is a new mechanism for them to hear their
problems, when a lot of these matters people used to resolve themselves.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Plymouth
District Court, where harassment prevention orders this year account for nearly
half of all restraining orders, Clerk Magistrate Philip McCue said he worries
that the number of frivolous complaints will ``dilute the significance'' of
traditional restraining orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``What we're seeing
is that a lot of people aren't litigating an incident; they're litigating a
relationship,'' he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Great
Barrington, Judge James B. McElroy, who retired last month as presiding judge
in Berkshire District Court, said the law has had unintended effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">``We would chuckle
at some of these cases,'' said McElroy, adding that a number of cases he heard
involved friends upset about what former friends said about them on Facebook.
He estimates that he denied granting harassment prevention orders in about 75
percent of the dozens of cases he heard in the past year and suggests that the
Legislature sharpen the law to include only cases in which people are ``in fear
of serious physical harm or financial harm.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wayne Sampson,
executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, said many
law enforcement officials predicted from the start that the law would generate
frivolous complaints. ``But,'' he said, ``if we don't advise citizens that they
can seek redress through the courts, the communities might be at risk of
liability.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="hit">David
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003850701266134173.post-84891496246395046342014-01-18T20:43:00.003-08:002014-01-20T18:08:41.127-08:00A Library Without Books<center style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Cushing Academy embraces a digital future</b></span></center>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2KGIxJOcU3s/UttX265jAGI/AAAAAAAAeGU/mZ48xQyfEfg/s1600/539w+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2KGIxJOcU3s/UttX265jAGI/AAAAAAAAeGU/mZ48xQyfEfg/s1600/539w+(1).jpg" height="468" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said headmaster James Tracy. (Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">By David Abel | Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">September 4, 2009</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ASHBURNHAM - There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There's even a clock tower with a massive bell that rings for special events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy's administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks - the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,'' said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus. ``This isn't `Fahrenheit 451' [the 1953 Ray Bradbury novel in which books are banned]. We're not discouraging students from reading. We see this as a natural way to shape emerging trends and optimize technology.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead of a library, the academy is spending nearly $500,000 to create a ``learning center,'' though that is only one of the names in contention for the new space. In place of the stacks, it is spending $42,000 on three large flat-screen TVs that will project data from the Internet and $20,000 on special laptop-friendly study carrels. Where the reference desk was, the school is building a $50,000 coffee shop that will include a $12,000 cappuccino machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And to replace those old pulpy devices that have transmitted information since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s, Cushing has spent $10,000 to buy 18 electronic readers made by Amazon.com and Sony. Administrators plan to distribute the readers, which they're stocking with digital material, to students looking to spend more time with literature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those who don't have access to the electronic readers will be expected to do their research and peruse many assigned texts on their computers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Instead of a traditional library with 20,000 books, we're building a virtual library where students will have access to millions of books,'' said Tracy, whose office shelves remain lined with books. ``We see this as a model for the 21st-century school.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not everyone on campus is sold on Tracy's vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They worry about an environment where students can no longer browse rows of voluptuous books, replete with glossy photographs, intricate maps, and pages dog-eared by generations of students. They worry students will be less likely to focus on long works when their devices are constantly interrupting them with e-mail and instant messages. They also worry about a world where sweat-stained literature is deemed as perishable as all the glib posts on Facebook or Twitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Liz Vezina, a librarian at Cushing for 17 years, said she never imagined working as the director of a library without any books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It makes me sad,'' said Vezina, who hosts a book club on campus dubbed the Off-line Readers and has made a career of introducing students to books. ``I'm going to miss them. I love books. I've grown up with them, and there's something lost when they're virtual. There's a sensual side to them - the smell, the feel, the physicality of a book is something really special.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alexander Coyle, chairman of the history department, is a self-described ``gadget freak'' who enjoys reading on Amazon's Kindle, but he has always seen libraries and their hallowed content as ``secular cathedrals.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I wouldn't want to ever get rid of any of my books at home,'' he said. ``I like the feel of them too much. A lot us are wondering how this changes the dignity of the library, and why we can't move to increase digital resources while keeping the books.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tracy and other administrators said the books took up too much space and that there was nowhere else on campus to stock them. So they decided to give their collection - aside from a few hundred children's books and valuable antiquarian works - to local schools and libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We see the gain as greater than the loss,'' said Gisele Zangari, chairwoman of the math department, who like other teachers has plans for all her students to do their class reading on electronic books by next year. ``This is the start of a new era.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cushing is one of the first schools in the country to abandon its books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I'm not aware of any other library that has done this,'' said Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association, a Chicago-based organization that represents the nation's libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said the move raises at least two concerns: Many of the books on electronic readers and the Internet aren't free and it may become more difficult for students to happen on books with the serendipity made possible by physical browsing. There's also the question of the durability of electronic readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,'' Fiels said. ``Books are not a waste of space, and they won't be until a digital book can tolerate as much sand, survive a coffee spill, and have unlimited power. When that happens, there will be next to no difference between that and a book.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">William Powers, author of a forthcoming book based on a paper he published at Harvard called ``Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal,'' called the changes at Cushing ``radical'' and ``a tremendous loss for students.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``There are modes of learning and thinking that at the moment are only available from actual books,'' he said. ``There is a kind of deep-dive, meditative reading that's almost impossible to do on a screen. Without books, students are more likely to do the grazing or quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author's ideas.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet students at Cushing say they look forward to the new equipment, and the brave new world they're ushering in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tia Alliy, a 16-year-old junior, said she visits the library nearly every day, but only once looked for a book in the stacks. She's not alone. School officials said when they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children's books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``When you hear the word `library,' you think of books,'' Alliy said. ``But very few students actually read them. And the more we use e-books, the fewer books we have to carry around.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jemmel Billingslea, an 18-year-old senior, thought about the prospect of a school without books. It didn't bother him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a little strange,'' he said. ``But this is the future.''</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">NEWARK - The man with piercing green eyes began to shake as he stared past the checkpoint, down a crowded corridor into an unfamiliar airport terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It would be the first time Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda, now 32 and living in Framingham, would meet his biological father since a squad of government soldiers slaughtered his mother and eight brothers and sisters 30 years ago in their small village during the height of the civil war in Guatemala.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until last year, when he received a call from prosecutors in Guatemala and agreed to submit to a DNA test, Ramírez had no idea that as a young child he had been abducted by an army lieutenant who led that assault, and raised as a member of his family. Or that his real father was still alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Monday, as his own young children giggled with excitement and held signs to welcome their new grandfather to Newark Liberty International Airport, Ramírez was not sure what to feel. "I'm nervous," he said. "Anxious."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ramírez said he grew up in a loving family and lacks any grudge against Lieutenant Oscar Ovidio Ramírez Ramos, the deputy commander of the notorious squad of commandos that killed more than 250 men, women, and children and wiped Dos Erres, his village in northern Guatemala, off the map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's very hard for me," Ramírez would say later. "I can't change what happened in my life. I just can't. He was good to me. First of all, I didn't get killed, and then he didn't treat me bad."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The lieutenant died in a truck accident eight months after kidnapping Ramírez, who was 3 at the time. "Everyone I knew loved him and thought he was a good man," said Ramírez. "They saw him as a hero."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier in the day, with the help of a New York lawyer and a foundation supporting his bid for political asylum in the United States, Ramírez and his family took a train from South Station into Manhattan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, with his wife, Nidia, by his side, and the children growing antsy, Ramírez began to sweat in the air-conditioned corridor at the airport. The children, dressed as if they were going to church, only knew they were going to meet their grandfather from Guatemala.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past year, Ramírez and his father, Tranquilino Castañeda, now 70, have spoken nearly every day over the phone, even chatting twice by video. Ramírez has sent him money and urged him to go easy on the rum, which has been Castañeda's companion and tormentor since he returned from the fields that day in 1982 to find his pregnant wife and other children dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Castañeda had always assumed that his youngest son, a chubby toddler with missing front teeth whom he called Alfredito, had been thrown down the village well and left to die with the others. He never remarried, struggled with alcoholism, and lived in a shack in the jungle after giving up on farming when the arthritis in his leg became too much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now he was getting on a plane for the first time, leaving his country for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I'm just glad to have lived long enough to see this day," Castañeda would say later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As anxious as he felt, Ramírez said he knew he had to meet his father in person, to touch him, to hug him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I just wanted to have him with me," Ramírez said. "He doesn't have to be alone anymore."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A lawyer waiting with the family received a call from one of the human rights advocates traveling with Castañeda. They had landed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A trickle of passengers grew into a surge passing through the security barrier. Then Ramírez's girls began to jump and scream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They instantly recognized the man in the weathered white cowboy hat that shaded his sun-creased face after years of harvesting corn. He was being pushed on a wheelchair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The children - Andrea, 11, Nicole, 7, and Oscar, 5 - wrapped their arms around their grandfather, who was beaming. Then Ramírez, still holding 10-month-old Dulce, leaned in for a long, deep hug that lasted nearly 30 seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There would be a lot to catch up on, such as how justice is slowly coming to pass in Guatemala, where members of the military and government officials guilty of ordering mass murder have evaded prosecution for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Guatemalan court last August found three former commandos who participated in the attack on Dos Erres guilty of murder and human rights violations. The defendants each received sentences of 6,060 years in prison, or 30 years for every one of the 201 identified victims, plus 30 more for crimes against humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seven suspects remain at large, including two of the squad's top officers. Authorities told ProPublica, a nonprofit online news site that first reported the story of how prosecutors identified Ramírez, that they believe the suspects could be in the United States or in Guatemala, sheltered by powerful networks linking the military and organized crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They would also be able to talk about Ramírez's adopted family, who were shocked to learn of Ramírez's true identity. After learning the news, Ramírez's cousins promptly invited Castañeda to the town where Ramírez grew up, and treated him graciously, like family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the airport, Ramírez led his father to baggage claim and then to a van waiting to take the family into New York City for a dinner arranged by R. Scott Greathead, a partner in the New York office of Wiggin and Dana, who helped arrange the visit. Greathead and lawyers from Mintz Levin in Boston will represent Ramírez, who entered the United States as an illegal immigrant, at a hearing in which Ramírez will seek political asylum. He will argue that he is at risk because he is living proof of a massacre in Guatemala and could be targeted by those hoping to avoid prosecution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After dinner, Ramírez and his family took a train back to Boston. His father remained in New York to get some rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next morning, Castañeda was driven to Framingham, where he will sleep in Ramírez's bed. He has a visa to stay in the United States for six months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As they chatted over a lunch of pupusas on Tuesday afternoon in the family's cramped two-bedroom apartment, which is full of children's toys and family photos, including portraits of the lieutenant's mother, they talked about the price of cigarettes in the States, how to buy pants, and what life was like in Dos Erres before soldiers burned it to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Castañeda showed Ramírez pictures of those who died, including one of his sisters, a 13-year-old named Maribel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As they talked, Ramírez's children clung to their father and grandfather, who pinched their cheeks, gave them long hugs, and cooed with affection. He couldn't get enough of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I'm very happy to be here," Castañeda said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>David Abel can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a> Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FIFTY MINUTES AFTER IT HAPPENED, THE NEWS SURFACED ON LOCAL blogs. The first account, posted on a site called Bostonist , read in part: "A witness who asked not to be identified said the baby was very small, went flying after the collision, and was crying. It was also said that the baby was taken away in an ambulance."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The same item got picked up the next morning by the more widely read Universal Hub blog , where less than an hour later, someone using the name Jchristian commented, "I have a one-year-old, and reading this, seriously, made me feel a bit ill for a minute. It's amazing how differently one feels about babies after having one - when it's not abstract anymore, the thought of one being truly hurt is a visceral experience."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SwirlyGrrl responded to Jchristian: "It is just somehow different when you can just imagine that moment where the stroller is being torn loose from your grip." Then Jchristian wrote: "Why is this story not reported yet anywhere else but Bostonist and here?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Echoed Sheenaspleena: "I was wondering about that too. That's not right!" And on it went, with postings that bounced from indignation to curiosity to sympathy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a story both about a horrifying accident and about the changing way we filter news and gossip and everything in between. The collision inspired the kind of dread that haunts any urban mom, and its impact spread quickly beyond that busy corner. It would spawn a flurry of questions, opinions, theories, all leavened with a mix of rage and ruth for police and pedestrians alike. But it would also reveal how Boston's rising number of hyper-local blogs can serve to fuel reputation-coloring gossip as well as help to reknit a city where so many neighbors remain strangers. These increasingly popular echo chambers have provided a means for those long walled off from one another in siloed lives to search for answers - immediately and collectively - about events that might not make headlines anywhere else, but that spark intense interest within the span of a few blocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ALL SHE WANTED was milk for her child. It was another harried day balancing work and her 1-year-old boy, whom she had just fetched from day care, served dinner, bathed, and dressed for bed in his red-striped dinosaur pajamas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the sun still out and her husband working late on the evening of August 7, Tara Giard decided they had time to run a quick errand. So she strapped Leo into his new Maclaren Volo stroller, wrapped a blanket around him, and wheeled him out of their Jamaica Plain condo onto Centre Street, where she faced a humdrum choice: Go to the drugstore or the convenience store?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a whim, the 34-year-old mom instead opted to check out a new gourmet market a few blocks away and splurge on organic milk. Wearing a lime-green long-sleeve shirt, Giard joined the throngs out for the neighborhood's "First Thursday" festivities and pushed the black stroller along Centre Street, past the old firehouse, the dingy bar, the drugstore, until she arrived at the corner next to the Purple Cactus, a popular burrito spot, facing the mustard-colored City Feed and Supply, her destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the same time, on the other side of Centre Street, Boston Police Officer Patrick Wayne Wood rolled to a stop in one of the department's newest vehicles, a massive Ford F250 patrol wagon that had 70 miles on the odometer and less than 24 hours on the road. Wood pulled to the side of the street to drop off his partner, Officer Cesar Abreu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite traffic streaming by in both directions on Centre Street, Giard saw the idling blue-and-white wagon out of the corner of her left eye. It was about 7:40. The sidewalks were crowded, the stores open late, the sun waning in the sky, and Giard had only a few feet left before she could start shopping for milk. With the crosswalk clear, she prodded Leo's stroller off the curb and began venturing across Seaverns Avenue, a one-way road off Centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Giard passed over the fading white lines of the crosswalk, Wood, who had pulled away from the curb, caught a break in the oncoming traffic, hit the gas, and turned left onto Seaverns. Giard watched as the wagon headed toward them, but she couldn't make eye contact with Wood, who had glanced to his right for one last check of the oncoming traffic and was riding high in a vehicle plagued with blind spots. "Why isn't he stopping? Why isn't he slowing down?" Giard thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Driving alone, Wood turned his head back to the crosswalk. He never saw the stroller. But he heard a piercing shriek and suddenly spotted Giard. Wood slammed on the brakes. There wasn't enough time to stop before impact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON, MIKE BELLO, one of the Boston Globe's city editors with a nose for tragedy, walked over to my desk in the newsroom. He'd received a call from a law enforcement source who had seen the blog posting on Universal Hub, and Bello wanted me to check it out. So I called police headquarters. What I got didn't seem to square with what we had heard. A police official read me the account from Wood's report, which said the Giards "walked into the path of the motor vehicle, at which point [the officer] locked up the brakes, and the vehicle stopped abruptly, brushing the baby carriage."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly 24 hours after the collision, I drove to the scene, hoping to find a witness or anyone who knew more than what I'd learned from the blogs and the police. Then I got a call forwarded to my cellphone from our newsroom. Divya Kumar, a 31-year-old mom from Jamaica Plain, said she saw it all and wanted to set the record straight. "It's a misrepresentation to say the officer brushed the stroller," Kumar told me. She'd been standing on a corner of the intersection at the time. "The stroller caught air and landed facedown - it was horrible and frightening." She added: "They should have been in his line of sight. They were pedestrians going through a crosswalk. I don't understand how he didn't see them."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story that I wrote for the next day's paper was brief - "Baby, 1, hit by police vehicle in Jamaica Plain" - and it appeared on a page inside the newspaper's Metro section. But the story, which quoted the police report as well as Kumar, only fueled the call for more information that had started swirling the day before on the blogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That night, the bloggers who had been so angry with the police for what they perceived to be a coverup of the incident turned their frustration on me. A writer on Universal Hub wrote, "They played down the accident." And another wrote mockingly: "No damage to car, police consider citing baby for being in road. . . . The effect of trying to minimize these events with misleading language is that people learn to distrust their own police departments. The Globe could have called the mother and asked her to describe the event and provided that information too."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The police, however, were not releasing her name. She was the victim, after all, not a criminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The online speculation spread to local user groups such as JP Moms, a forum where Jamaica Plain mothers turn to one another for advice or simply to vent, and the back and forth went on for weeks. Some shared details about dangerous intersections, others decried the paltry information provided by police, and more than a few questioned why the media had not followed up on the story and didn't seem to care about an event of such magnitude to those in the orbit of the blogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One mom signed on as ddkwon wrote: "It sounds like my worst nightmare."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another mom under the name moonbeam wrote that she was horrified when she saw the aftermath. "I haven't been able to stop wondering about them since I saw that stroller hanging off the bumper of the police truck," she wrote. "I am speechless."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As time passed with no new information, the tone on the various blogs changed, and some posters could not contain their frustration and began to wonder whether, in fact, the mother who got hit was to blame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I think that pedestrians could try to be a bit more considerate of drivers. . . ." wrote a mom who identified herself as juniperdev. "It is nervewracking to drive in Boston sometimes because people just hop in the street in front of your car constantly. Sometimes it can take 20 minutes or more to get through Centre Street because everyone just crosses wherever they feel like. This is a huge pet peeve I have about Boston."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then someone using the name Kaz questioned Kumar's account. "The witness statement may be a tad more hyperbole than reality," Kaz wrote on Universal Hub. "We don't know since it seems that this didn't raise any red flags . . . [and] the mother (still unnamed to the public) hasn't made a press statement to make it known that this injustice was brought upon her child, or even who she is."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The chatter veered off in that direction for some time, as others chimed in about their issues with rogue pedestrians, until a mom who identified herself as Isadora posted on JP Moms that she was friends with the mom whose child had been struck. "I think what needs to be remembered about this," she wrote, "is that a family was affected and continues to be affected by posts. . . . I feel hurt about the posts that have been going around. It feels unfair, gossipy and exploitative."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was the first acknowledgment for all of the bloggers that their words were, in fact, being seen by the mother. And that she wasn't happy with what she was reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">THE MOMENT OF IMPACT REMAINS SUSPENDed in time for Tara Giard. When she closes her eyes, she often sees it all over again. "It's not the kind of thing you can just forget about or move on from," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We learned her name after posting a message on the JP Moms website, hoping she might see it and reach out. She did, and after hesitating at first, she agrees to meet me with her lawyer at Ula Cafe in Jamaica Plain. "It's just been really hard, hard to sleep. I keep having visions of the whole thing," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the 5-foot-6 blonde realized the patrol wagon wouldn't stop in time, she tried to push her stroller out of the way and screamed as loud as she had ever screamed. Even if he hadn't glanced to the right to check for traffic, Wood probably wouldn't have seen them. The high-riding vehicle is known for blind spots in its lower front, according to a police report on the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Wood saw her and slammed on the brakes, Giard braced herself, holding out her hands and pressing against the passenger side of the hood. The vehicle pushed her only a few steps backward. She got lucky. But at the same time Giard watched as the bumper on the driver's side of the patrol wagon struck the stroller, flipping it several times, until the 8-pound Maclaren Volo landed on the far side of Seaverns, on top of Leo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Giard ran to her son, struggled to unstrap him, and scooped him up. She wanted to hug him tight. She wanted to cover him with a blanket. She wanted someone to call an ambulance. There were cuts on his face and blood dripping from his forehead. He was hysterical, sobbing inconsolably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It was just mayhem," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wood jumped out of the patrol wagon and bore the fury of a mother who had just witnessed horror. "I can't believe you're a police officer!" Giard recalls yelling at Wood. "You should know better."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wood asked her to step out of the street and radioed for an ambulance and a patrol supervisor. Giard says Wood apologized, but she had more important concerns. Something didn't feel right in her arms. She worried Leo had suffered a skull injury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Witnesses ushered the Giards into City Feed, which, it turned out, was still under construction and not yet open for business. With Leo still wailing, employees setting up for the store's opening offered her tea and an ice pop. She turned them away; she had to call her husband. A stranger loaned her a cellphone, and when her husband answered, he was apoplectic. "It was a call you never want to get," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The paramedics arrived, and she watched as they immobilized Leo with a neck brace and a long board and carried him into the ambulance. Giard went with them to Children's Hospital, where her husband met them. Leo cried hysterically until midnight, when the medical staff decided to sedate him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">THE NEXT MORNING, AFTER CLEANING HIS cuts and running a battery of CAT scans and Xrays of his head and spine, the doctors released Leo. He appeared to be fine; they told the Giards to watch for any peculiar behavior, because head injuries can lie dormant. Leo seemed irritable, more clingy than usual, and they stayed home together the rest of the day. "I didn't want to take him outside ever again," Giard says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the couple finally saw a copy of the police report, they couldn't believe it. "It didn't match with my recollection of the events, in that it said the stroller was brushed, in that it said the stroller was tipped, and in that it said that I walked into the path of the vehicle," Giard says. "I felt like it was blaming me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She called a lawyer (though no suit had been filed as of earlier this month). It wasn't until we met a few weeks later that she learned what police had told me after I sought the results of the police's internal investigation through a Freedom of Information Act request: Wood, 41 and a 12-year veteran of the department, was issued a citation for failing to yield to a pedestrian and ordered to take a driving course at the police academy before he would be allowed to drive another police vehicle. I tried to reach Wood on multiple occasions. He never returned my calls. But Lieutenant Michael Kern, the commander in charge of the investigation, summed up the police findings. "After reviewing the reports and surrounding circumstances," Kern wrote, "I have determined that PO Patrick Wood was solely at fault."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">AS OF EARLIER THIS MONTH, TARA GIARD continued to wait for an official apology, or perhaps a new stroller, from the Boston Police Department. She has locked the old stroller in her basement storage unit, still bound in the police department's blue-and-white evidence tape. "I don't want to see it," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leo seems to have returned to normal, though Giard remains anxious about taking him for walks in a stroller. She prefers to carry him and continues to shudder whenever he falls. Lingering along with her persistent fear is a latent sadness. She has yet to come to terms with all the exchanges on the blogs, the volley of questions about her judgment, and meanspirited rants on sites that had become a considerable part of her social network. She feels as if the community that she had often turned to had turned against her at her most vulnerable time. "It was so offensive," she says. "It was infuriating. Absolutely maddening."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She thought there would be more empathy, more understanding about why she wouldn't want to respond to all the posts and put her name and story out there for everyone to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"You really can't underestimate the effect on me," Giard says. "I shouldn't care what people think about me, but I was extraordinarily upset to read comments like this. We're all pushing strollers in JP, in an urban setting."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The shock of the trauma may be wearing off, but the sting of the gossip remains, and the dark memories have begun to feel like scars. "I was very angry at first," she says. "Now I'm just very sad that it happened to us, sad that it's in our memories."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To move on, the Giards have decided it's time to escape the city's busy streets - and to take a break from JP Moms and Universal Hub and the other blogs. The couple recently reached an agreement to sell their condo. They're renting in Newton, Giard says, while they look to buy somewhere in the suburbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>David Abel is a Globe staff writer. E-mail him at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003850701266134173.post-67438225421232845032014-01-18T19:56:00.002-08:002014-01-18T19:56:31.831-08:00The Corpse is Alive<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">By David Abel | </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Globe Staff | </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">1/25/2001</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />ASHLAND -- Everyone thought she was dead.<br /><br />Local and state police, emergency medical technicians, and the building's property manager all saw the slender 39-year-old woman slumped lifelessly in the water-filled bathtub of her one-bedroom apartment and thought she was dead.<br /><br />They even called the state medical examiner's office, described the woman's condition, and the official told them to send her to the funeral home.<br /><br />Everyone on the scene apparently believed it was just another suicide case, and the medical examiner planned to assess the body later.<br /><br />So they lifted the woman out of the tub, slipped her limp form into a body bag, and sent her to the nearby John Matarese Funeral Home on Main Street.<br /><br />It was a Saturday morning John Matarese will never forget.<br /><br />On his way out of the funeral home to fetch lunch for his father, the funeral director heard something startling as he walked past the holding area. He heard a faint sound. He realized it was someone breathing.<br /><br />"It scared me half to death," Matarese said. "The girl was alive. I don't know what I was thinking at that moment, to tell you the truth."<br /><br />But Matarese acted. He quickly unzipped the body bag and held the woman's mouth open to keep her air passages clear.<br /><br />By the time the second set of emergency technicians arrived, the woman was breathing.<br /><br />"All I can really say is it's a miracle," said Dexter Blois, Ashland's town manager. "She was in the right place at the right time. She appeared lifeless and there was more than one person who made the judgment that she was not alive. I don't think we have anything to be sorry about. We're just lucky."<br /><br />Neither Blois nor Matarese would reveal the woman's name, but they said she is apparently unmarried. The woman was taken to MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, where her father and brother arrived shortly afterward, Blois said.<br /><br />Yesterday, the woman was transferred to another medical facility, hospital officials said.<br /><br />Eleanor Doherty, the woman's neighbor, said she introduced herself only as Christina, and has lived in the subsidized housing complex since December 1999.<br /><br />Police first responded at about 2 a.m. to complaints from neighbors of loud noises in her apartment in the brick-faced Chestnut apartment complex on 8 Joanne Drive. Blois said, however, that police could not enter the woman's apartment until about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, when the property manager let them in.<br /><br />Once they found the body, police called the fire department. The woman was taken to the funeral home about 11:30 a.m., and Materese heard her breathing about 20 minutes later.<br /><br />Anson Kaye, a spokesman for the Middlesex district attorney's office, said State Police believe the woman attempted to commit suicide. Local police are still investigating.<br /><br />"Miracles never cease to happen, and this is one of them," Blois said. "My understanding is she's up, alive, and taking nourishment. It's just amazing."<br /><br /><i>David Abel can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel. </i><br />Copyright, The Boston Globe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">David Abel | </span><span style="background-color: white;">Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">August 30, 2009</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The creamy stouts went untouched on many a table. Ice dissolved in stiffer brews well before their liquor had been consumed. There was no music, no conversation, no bustle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just about the only thing flowing yesterday at Flann O'Brien's were tears and the only thing audible was the rain, which slanted in from the open windows, offering the crowd inside a collective cocktail of melancholy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps never before has a packed Irish bar in Boston been steeped in such heavy silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the honor guard carried Senator <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">Edward M. Kennedy's</span> body into the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, scores of neighbors and others from faraway peered at the TVs in this old Mission Hill bar with watery eyes and quiet respect, as if they too were in the church two blocks away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I just needed to be as close as possible,'' said John Snyder, 52, who brushed the tears on his Red Sox jersey as he sat at a table near the bar. ``We should never forget what he meant to the people of this city. He was an extraordinary man.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like other businesses on Tremont Street, Flann O'Brien's opened early, well before the motorcades arrived. In honor of the senator, the bar draped American flags above its doors, exclusively served American cheeseburgers, and changed the name of one of its signature drinks from the Grateful Dead to the Grateful Ted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It also switched the channels on its six flat-screen TVs from sports to news, a rarity in this bastion of Red Sox Nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sonorous music echoing from the basilica's century-old organ and out the bar's speakers drew a standing-room-only crowd, including dozens who stood outside in the splashing rain as they watched in silence through the open windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They were black and white, Asian and Latino, old and young, gay and straight, from a few blocks away and from far-flung suburbs. But they all had something in common: a reverence for a man who either they watched grow up or knew as a legend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I've never seen anything like this before,'' said Tony O'Brien, one of the bar's owners who moved here from Ireland but never required any explanation about the Kennedy legacy. ``Back in Cork, all my family's watching this live. We know what he meant to so many people.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly everyone had a story about their brush with the senator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kristin Bennett, 40, of Mission Hill, recalled waiting on the senator and his wife, Vicki, serving him a Scotch and her a martini, as they dined at the Bay Tower Room in downtown Boston. ``They were so friendly, laughing, and having a great time, like regular people,'' she said. ``They even tipped the hostess.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shortly before the senator was diagnosed last year with brain cancer, Joanne Fleming ran into him while strolling along the beach near his compound in Hyannis Port. ``He introduced us to his dogs,'' said Fleming, 43, also of Mission Hill, who brought her own dog to the bar. ``He was really very sweet. I always liked the Kennedys, but after meeting him, that really sealed it.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nicola Forrester remembers the senator's wide smile. The 37-year-old from Hyde Park works in the center at Massachusetts General Hospital where Kennedy received treatment for his cancer. ``He came by my office nearly every day, but I wasn't there,'' she said. ``Then one day I finally got to shake his hand. I'll never forget what he told me. He said, `You're doing a great job; keep up the good work.' ''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Others who never met the senator described how he still had an effect on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross Denison, 27, a student at the New England School of Law, said the senator inspired him. ``I have a picture of him and his brothers on my wall at home,'' he said. ``The entire family saw the law as protecting individual rights against the tyranny of the majority.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before she moved from the Philippines to the United States, Violette Paragas, 51, remembered how her father picked her up one day at school in Manila and told her, ``The world has ended.'' President John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. ``The family embodied the American dream,'' she said. ``This is really the end of an era.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The quiet of the normally rowdy bar began to lift when Ted Kennedy Jr. started to speak. His stories and upbeat delivery turned a lot of the tears into laughter, the sadness into a kind of bittersweet consolation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By the time President Obama finished his eulogy, many in the somber crowd stood up and began to clap, offering the senator a standing ovation as his casket was taken out of the basilica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris Hatfield, who spent five years living above the bar and many more years drinking Guinness at its scuffed tables, said he had never witnessed such a hush at Flann O'Brien's, named after the Irish novelist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 49-year-old added that he had never seen the bar so crowded so early, even on St. Patrick's Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a real tribute to the senator,'' he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_3"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #272727;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: #45569c;"><a href="http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=David+Abel&camp=localsearch:on:byline:art">David Abel</a> | </span></span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 12.75pt;">Globe Staff<span class="apple-converted-space"> | </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="color: #272727;"> </span></span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 12.75pt;">April 3, 2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The parents of the 21-year-old Middlebury
College junior from Ripton, Vt., who went to Syria to study Arabic, had no idea
whether their son was alive. They spent the past two weeks making call after
call to congressmen, senators, ambassadors — anyone who could help find their
son and bring him home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yesterday, a week after Syrian officials
acknowledged that Root had been taken into custody and after long negotiations
to establish he wasn’t a CIA agent or some other covert operative, Root caught
a flight from Damascus to London and then another to Logan International
Airport. There, he emerged from customs about 7:15 p.m. with a beaming smile
and fell into the arms of his parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m just shocked,’’ he said. “Thirty-six
hours ago, I was in prison. I’m just trying to comprehend all of this. I’m just
really, really glad to be back.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His parents fought tears as they tried to size
up their son, who was much thinner than when they last saw him, with long,
disheveled hair and heavy eyes. They tried to grasp the horror of the ordeal he
said he had been through, locked in a prison cell in Damascus, with no way to
communicate with anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m overwhelmed,’’ said Tom Root, his father.
“Before this, I had very little information. It’s 10 times worse to know what
he went through. I just wish I could have taken his place. I can’t imagine how
he got through it.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Andi Lloyd, his stepmother, added: “We’re just
elated right now. I’m just very happy to have my son and my life back.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an interview at the airport last night,
Pathik Root explained how he was wandering around the Old City after Friday
prayers ended on March 18 as hundreds of people began flooding out of mosques.
He had just bought some chicken shwarma when he caught sight of some flags and
heard chanting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then he made the fateful mistake of taking out
his BlackBerry to take some pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seconds afterward, several plainclothes
members of the secret police grabbed him, he said. One tried to drag him by his
hair. He explained that he was an American, and the men threw him in the back
of a Chevy Suburban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When he showed his passport, it made things
worse. The worldly young man, who studied politics and economics and has long
been fascinated by the Middle East, had previously visited Saudi Arabia, Yemen,
and Egypt, all of which had stamped his passport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I was saying, ‘I’m an American. What’s going
on?’ ’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They told him there was no problem, but then
shoved his head down in the back seat. Five secret police officers crowded into
the vehicle and drove him to a prison in Damascus. He never learned its name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I had no idea what was going on,’’ he said.
“I was just glad they hadn’t beaten me. There were clubs in the back of the
Suburban.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They brought him into an office at the prison,
where he was blindfolded. He was later interrogated at least four times, he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They threatened violence if I didn’t admit to
being a CIA agent or a journalist,’’ he said. “They said it would only take 10
minutes for me to start talking after they used violence.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Root said he told them the same thing,
repeatedly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I said I was a student at the University of
Damascus, studying Arabic,’’ he said. “I was glad I was wearing a Middlebury
College sweatshirt.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When he asked why he had been arrested, they
told him, “It was because of the picture, and that I was a CIA agent.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For his first week in custody, he was kept in
a dank, tiny cell with one other man, a Syrian. They strip-searched him and
took his shoelaces and the string from his hooded sweatshirt. He said the cell
was about 3 feet by 7 feet and windowless. The only time he was allowed out, he
said, was to go to the bathroom three times a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They didn’t like it if you took very long,’’
he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Root said they slid his meals through a peep
hole in the cell door. He ate only bread and potatoes for the 15 days he was in
custody, and didn’t discover there was water until he asked for it on his third
day. He said he was never allowed to shower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the worst part, he said, was hearing the
screams. He said he was sure the prison was using electricity and clubs to
torture the other prisoners. He said he met a man who was beaten for putting an
X over a picture of President Bashar al-Assad’s face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I was not beaten, but I would say at least 75
percent of those in the prison were,’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said he slept on blankets on the floor of
his cell and fought boredom by sleeping as much as possible, which wasn’t easy.
“I would write stuff on the walls,’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Root didn’t know he would be released until
the moment on Friday when he saw an official from the American embassy in
Syria, and even then he wasn’t sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Every day, they told me I would be released,
and it wouldn’t happen,’’ he said. “I was pretty numb most of the time.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He worried that his arrest would become a
political issue and that he could be confined for years, as happened with the
young American hikers who were arrested several years ago in Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I was not convinced I was going to get back
until I was here on the ground,’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When asked what he takes away from the
experience, he said: “People need to know that these kinds of governments exist
in the world, the ones that torture their citizens,’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked if he would ever return to the Middle
East, he said he would one day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“This experience, as bad as it was, has in no
way dampened my interest in these countries, in their cultures and their
people. There’s a big difference between the government and the people.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Root has no immediate plans, he said. “I’m
just going to go home and sleep as much as possible.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He and his family said they couldn’t thank
enough those who helped free him. Chief among them, they said, was Senator
Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who early Friday morning was the first American
official to learn that Root was to be freed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leahy had received a call while still in bed
from the Syrian ambassador in Washington, Imad Moustapha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I was happy to be awoken with such good
news,’’ Leahy said in a telephone interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said Moustapha, as well as US Ambassador
Robert Ford in Syria, had been very helpful in securing Root’s release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leahy said Root, who had been adopted from
India, seemed suspicious to the Syrians, because he had been studying in Yemen
last summer and then was an exchange student in Alexandria, Egypt, until the
protests in January made it unsafe to stay. He had moved to Syria 10 days
before his arrest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They weren’t sure who he was, and why he was
there,’’ Leahy said. “But I explained that it was just a case of being at the
wrong place at the wrong time.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said US officials relied on the goodwill of
the Syrians. “We couldn’t make a whole lot of demands, because that wouldn’t
get us anywhere,’’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said Syrian officials kept him posted about
Root’s condition, but wouldn’t say where he was being held. The Americans, he
said, offered nothing in return for freeing Root.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There was absolutely no quid pro quo,’’ Leahy
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leahy said Root’s release was finally secured
after<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><org idsrc="NYSE" value="F">Ford<span class="apple-converted-space"></span></org> held a meeting with a senior
official in the Syrian government on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He also praised Root’s parents, both of whom
teach biology at Middlebury College, saying their devotion to their son “has
deeply touched every Vermonter who has stood with them.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Root’s freedom also brought a huge sigh of
relief to officials at Middlebury, where friends set up a Facebook page and
have been waiting anxiously for him to return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Needless to say, everyone here at Middlebury
is both relieved and delighted that Tik has been freed,’’ said Ron Liebowitz,
the college’s president, in an e-mail. “We now wish to give Tik and his family
the support and space they need following this intense ordeal.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>David Abel can be reached at</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><em><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="cursor: pointer;">dabel@globe.com</a>.</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</i></span></span></div>
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<br />
As a student at Stonehill College, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F.
Conley found himself in a room with guys passing around a bong.
"When it came to me, I inhaled so hard that it burned my lungs," he
says. "I don't want to sound Clintonesque; I inhaled, but I couldn't
handle it."<br />
<br />
Gerry Leone, Middlesex district attorney, also admits to smoking pot.
"It was years ago, when I was a young man," he said. "I
tried it once, and it wasn't something I was ever into."<br />
<br />
Michael O'Keefe, district attorney for the Cape and Islands, would only hint at
his past: "Like a lot of people in my generation, we did a lot of things
that were unwise, unhealthy, and illegal," he says.<br />
<br />
The prosecutors - who would have faced obstacles to attaining their law
enforcement positions had they been caught - are now among the leading
opponents of a proposition on the Nov. 4 ballot that would decriminalize
possession of small amounts of marijuana. They argue that the initiative
would send the wrong message and lead to a host of social problems.<br />
<br />
Proponents argue, however, that if the question passed, possession of small
amounts would remain illegal but would no longer tarnish someone's future.<br />
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Under state law, those convicted of possessing even a small amount of marijuana
now face up to six months in jail, a fine of $500, and a lifelong criminal
record that may be available to potential employers, housing agencies, and
student loan providers. In 2006, 6,902 people were arrested in
Massachusetts for marijuana possession - - more than 38 percent of all the drug
arrests in the state that year, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime
Reports.<br />
<br />
All arrests for marijuana possession are archived by the state's Criminal
History Systems Board - even when there isn't a conviction. The board is
obliged to disclose such Criminal Offender Record Information, known as CORI,
to any employer seeking to hire a teacher, police officer, day-care center employee,
school bus driver, or nursing home worker, as well as prosecutors.<br />
<br />
The proposed change in the law - Question 2 on the ballot - would make
possession of less than an ounce of marijuana punishable by a civil fine of
$100, the equivalent of getting a speeding ticket. Nothing would be
reported to the criminal history board.<br />
<br />
Those younger than age 18 would be required to complete a drug awareness
program with a community service component. The fine would increase to as
much as $1,000 for those who fail to complete the program.<br />
<br />
Proponents of the initiative say it would maintain the law's existing penalties
for growing, trafficking, or driving under the influence of marijuana, while
ensuring that those caught with less than an ounce of pot would avoid the taint
of a criminal record. ( Nearly 100 million Americans report having tried
marijuana at least once, according to a 2005 study by the US Department of
Health and Human Services. ) They also argue it would save the state
millions of law enforcement dollars and match similar marijuana possession laws
in Maine, New York, California, North Carolina, Oregon, Ohio, Arizona,
Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Nevada, all of which have
adopted some form of decriminalization.<br />
<br />
"Marijuana will remain illegal, but the new law wouldn't prevent someone
who makes a mistake when they're young from becoming a teacher, a foster
parent, or a prosecutor," said Whitney Taylor, chairwoman of the Committee
for Sensible Marijuana Policy, which collected about 125,000 signatures and
raised more than $922,000, nearly half from billionaire financier George
Soros. "I think it's hypocritical for the district attorneys to
insist on keeping lifelong barriers for folks who weren't as lucky as they were
by avoiding arrest."<br />
<br />
The prosecutors - who insist they have learned from their mistakes - and other
law enforcement and education officials opposing the initiative say they worry
that decriminalizing marijuana possession would promote drug use and benefit
drug dealers. They said that if the question passes, dealers could evade
arrest when carrying as many as 60 joints - which they say equals about an
ounce. They warn it would increase violence on the streets and safety
hazards in the workplace, and cause the number of car crashes to rise as more
youths drive under the influence.<br />
<br />
"There are a lot of reasons why I think this is a bad idea," said
state Attorney General Martha Coakley. "The bottom line is that this
sends a message that it's OK to use marijuana . . . but to
pretend it's not a public safety issue is disingenuous."<br />
<br />
Coakley said she has never used marijuana.<br />
<br />
She and others said most of those charged with marijuana possession are
arrested for other reasons, such as driving under the influence or possessing a
more potent drug like crack cocaine. They also said most people arrested
for marijuana possession have their records cleared within six months.<br />
<br />
"It's very rare we arrest someone for marijuana possession alone,"
said Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes, another vocal opponent of the initiative,
who also said he has never smoked pot. "Right now, the law is very
lenient for marijuana possession. There aren't people going to jail
solely for possession of marijuana - and the current statute requires that after
six months the conviction is continued without a finding and that the records
be sealed."<br />
<br />
But Georgia Critsley, general counsel for the state's Criminal History Systems
Board, said that marijuana possession arrests and convictions are records that
remain visible to many employers.<br />
<br />
She said schools, law enforcement agencies, nursing homes, camps, and most
companies employing someone who works with children or the elderly can see
arrest records, even if the charges were dismissed. She said certified professional
groups overseeing lawyers, doctors, nurses, plumbers, electricians, and others
can review records for pending cases - before adjudication - as well as any
convictions. Noncertified employers can see only convictions punishable
with a jail sentence of five years or more.<br />
<br />
"It's complicated because different employers see different things,"
Critsley said.<br />
<br />
In a study of the potential effects of marijuana decriminalization on
Massachusetts, Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer in the economics department at
Harvard University, disputed the contention that few arrests are for marijuana
possession alone. Based on a review of court records in Brockton and
Barnstable and interviews with judges and lawyers, he estimated that about
one-third of marijuana-possession arrests in the state involve only that
charge. He also said studies of decriminalizing marijuana possession in
the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands have shown that it does not
increase usage.<br />
<br />
He estimated decriminalizing marijuana would save the state's police
departments, courts, and jails nearly $30 million.<br />
<br />
"I think the policy does more bad than good," said Miron, who was
paid $2,000 for his study by New England Policy Advocates in support of the
initiative. "I think all drugs should be legal. Prohibiting
drugs like marijuana drives the market underground - and that increases crime
and makes it hard to regulate quality."<br />
<br />
Jack A. Cole, executive director of the Medford-based group Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition, argued the initiative would do more to
dissuade youths from abusing marijuana than the current law because of the
required drug awareness program. "I've spent my whole life fighting
drug abuse, and believe me, not one of us wants to see one more drug abuser in
the world," he said. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="ssl0"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Vermont legalizes same-sex marriage;</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />
<span class="ssl0">11th-hour change of heart ends veto</span></span><br />
<br /><span style="background: white;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="hit"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David
Abel | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">April 8, 2009 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">MONTPELIER - That
it would be a tight vote was never in doubt, but the outcome was unclear until
the roll call came to the end and Jeff Young, a gardener and freshman Democrat,
switched his vote with a simple "yes'' from his wooden desk in the
chandelier-lit chamber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His change of mind
tipped the balance yesterday in the state House of Representatives, making
Vermont the fourth state in the country to legalize marriage between same-sex
couples - and the first by a legislative vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Young's move
ensured that lawmakers had 100 votes - the minimum needed in the heavily
Democratic 150-member Legislature to override Monday's veto by Governor Jim
Douglas. The House's 100-to-49 vote was taken about an hour after the state
Senate voted 23-5 to override the Republican governor. The new law takes effect
on Sept. 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The final vote
sparked cheers in the packed chambers of the State House, a gold-domed,
granite-columned building that rises from this small city in the Green
Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I'm thrilled and
I'm proud of Vermont for what we did and how we conducted this conversation,''
said Beth Robinson, chairwoman of the Vermont Freedom To Marry Task Force,
which has lobbied lawmakers for years for such a law. ``I think it speaks well
of all of us. You don't get a supermajority like this without lawmakers
sticking their necks out. I'm just really grateful.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vermont became the
first state to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples in 2000. It joins
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa in allowing gays and lesbians the right to
marry, but the courts changed the law in those states, not the legislatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Representative
Joseph L. Krawczyk Jr., a Republican from Bennington who voted against the
override, said he hopes the new law inspires residents to vote against those
who supported it. A majority of new lawmakers could vote to repeal the law,
unlike in those states where courts changed the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``They're going to
have to live with the consequences,'' he said. ``This does not reflect the true
values of Vermonters. It does not reflect my values nor does it reflect those
of my constituents.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some residents said
they hoped the new law would be a boon to the state's economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="loose" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``If more people
are going to come here to get married, that could bring a lot of money to the
state,'' said Donna Gaulin, 37, of Brookfield. ``Anything that would improve
our economy is a good thing. We don't judge people.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Others said they
thought all the debate was a distraction from more relevant issues. David
Goldstein, 43, of Montpelier, who is unemployed, said he would have preferred
that the Legislature focus more on the economy. ``I don't have a problem with
this, but there are a lot of other priorities,'' he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an interview in
his office, House Speaker Shap Smith said he was confident he had the votes
before the roll call. Asked how he persuaded several lawmakers to reverse
themselves from last week's vote, in which only 95 lawmakers supported the
same-sex marriage bill, he denied applying pressure or offering incentives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I made no
promises,'' Smith said. ``I asked members to respect the Legislature, which had
already passed the bill overwhelmingly.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With Young, who
represents St. Albans, one of the more conservative towns in the state, Smith
said: ``I talked about the issue and the work we had done. I explained how we
have to work together and support each other.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Young said that in
the past week he had received about 3,000 e-mails and hundreds of calls from
people trying to win his support. He described his initial vote against
same-sex marriage as a ``gut decision,'' because he thought the bill ``wasn't
family friendly.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But when he
realized how much his vote - which was among the last - would count, he said he
thought, ``Maybe this was the time to step to the plate.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``This wasn't the
easiest decision, but I realized that as a freshman, I don't have a lot of
chips on the table,'' he said. ``I want to have an impact for my district. . .
. This is politics.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Debbie Evans, a
Democrat from Essex who also switched her vote, said she originally opposed the
bill because ``an overwhelming number'' of her constituents were against it.
``But I'm a staunch believer in the legislative process,'' she said. ``I
thought a veto [by the governor] wasn't appropriate, given the overwhelming
support in the Legislature.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The governor's lack
of lobbying made it easier for lawmakers on the fence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dennise Casey,
Douglas's deputy chief of staff, said the governor preferred that lawmakers
vote with their conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Governor Douglas
believed that this was such an emotional, personal issue and that lawmakers
needed to do what was in their best interests, what was true to them, and he
didn't want to try to influence those decisions,'' Casey said. ``He made that
position clear from the beginning. It was a decision lawmakers had to make on
their own.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She said he was not
surprised by the vote, which lawmakers said was the Legislature's first
override in 19 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``When Governor
Douglas announced that he intended to veto this legislation, he said he
expected he would be overridden and that the Legislature would not have
advanced this if they didn't have the votes,'' she said. ``He was not
surprised. Democrats have the largest supermajority in the history of our
state.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Democrats control
102 of the 150 seats in Vermont's House and 23 of the Senate's 30 seats. The
vote passed in the House with the help of six Republicans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Senator Bill Doyle,
a Republican from Washington County who supported the same-sex marriage bill,
in the end voted against it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="loose" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I didn't want to
override my governor,'' he said. ``But I think it's good that this is over. Now
we can go on to other issues.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="loose" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The campaign to
legalize marriage for same-sex couples was jump-started in Massachusetts, where
the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2004 that it was necessary to fulfill the
equal-protection clause in the state constitution. A similar judicial decision
followed last year in Connecticut. Iowa's Supreme Court legalized same-sex
marriage last week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Similar legislative
campaigns are underway in New Hampshire, New York, Washington, D.C., Maine, New
Jersey, and Rhode Island. Last month, New Hampshire's House of Representatives
approved a bill to legalize gay marriage, and the Senate is slated to vote on
it this month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In California,
lawmakers approved same-sex marriage in 2005, but Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. Last year, voters overturned a court decision
that legalized same-sex marriage by approving Proposition 8, which amended the
state's constitution to ban such marriages. The California Supreme Court is
considering a petition to overturn the ban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Vermont
yesterday, Bill Lippert, a gay Democrat who serves as chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, said he was ``deeply touched'' by the vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``This will have a
profound effect on gay and lesbian Vermonters and our family and friends,'' he
said. ``But this is really a triumph of people who care about our well-being.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="hit">David
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Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">October 11, 2011</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BRIDGEWATER, Vt. - Facing a broad panorama of the Green Mountains,
Doug Parchman aimed his camera below the tree line, toward what has become a
more compelling tourist attraction than peeping at leaves, usually ablaze with
color at this time of year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the distance, a battered old Cadillac sat atop a pile of
boulders in a tributary of the Ottauquechee River, a lingering testament to the
destructive power of Tropical Storm Irene, which six weeks ago swelled rivers
throughout the region and carried away homes and stores, roads and bridges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We came up to see the foliage, but this is what's really
unbelievable to see,'' said Parchman, 53, who traveled with his wife from
Dallas and stopped along this bend in Route 4 with other camera-toting
tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With all the rain and strong winds, the palette of color in this
year's autumn spectacle has been muted, with the remaining leaves looking more
like rust than fire, ocher rather than crimson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead of admiring the trees, the throngs of tourists who
typically crowd this area on Columbus Day weekend were gawking at the backhoes
mending the scarred roads, covered bridges leading to nowhere, detritus yet to
be cleared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sheryl Trainor, who owns the Quechee Mobil station at the eastern
entrance of Route 4, calls it ``disaster porn.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a good thing, because with all the drab colors, this may be
one of the worst falls I've ever seen,'' Trainor said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The morbid fascination as well as the massive effort to repair the
damage, however, has combined to boost business. ``Ironically, Irene really
helped us,'' she said. ``As a business, we'll take what we can get.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many of the people who have trekked to the Green Mountains said
that although they were less than impressed with the fall foliage, they were
leaving inspired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joanne Belliveau, her daughter, and son-in-law drove seven hours
to Bridgewater from Rochester, N.Y.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The rains had a big impact,'' said Belliveau, 81. ``The whole
scene is not quite as brilliant as I remember.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But her daughter Linda Graci said she was amazed how quickly the
region seems to have bounced back, with many of the roads repaired and open to
traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We've never seen this kind of damage before,'' she said as her
family prepared to head home. ``It's devastating, but it's amazing to see how
so many people have come together.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Suzanne Salemi arrived this weekend from Colchester, Conn.,
she was disappointed by what she described as ``the burnt and brown color'' of
the foliage. Like many other visitors, her family found the destruction more
affecting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a sight to take in - all this damage, and all the people
still cleaning out their homes,'' said Salemi, 36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At one of the many country stores that line Route 4, Bill Curley,
39, who drove up from Duxbury, said he took his family to explore the beauty of
a gorge, but they came away more fascinated by what looked like the aftermath
of a volcanic eruption, with river runoff still marring many of the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The debris was everywhere,'' he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Woodstock, Paul Mason, who for the past six years has escorted
tourists around the area on a large bus, said he has heard the camera clicks
more often this weekend when passing disaster zones than the speckled peaks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``There's an awe that people have for watching this work get
done,'' he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along Route 4 between Quechee and Mendon, the road is slow, with
flaggers directing traffic around front loaders and other heavy equipment.
Downed trees still line riverbanks. And the remnants of destroyed property are
in every town along the winding road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amelia Rappaport, an owner of the Woodstock Farmers' Market, which
had been submerged in more than six feet of water during the storm, partially
reopened for the first time this weekend to take advantage of all the tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An estimated 3.6 million people visit Vermont each autumn,
generating about $332 million for the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She was selling mainly what she had left from before the storm:
T-shirts, salad dressing, wine, anything that did not get destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She tired of waiting for a check to arrive from her insurance
company, so she came up with a novel idea: She offered her regular customers a
discount on future supplies if they paid in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The idea was so popular that she raised $250,000 in three weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like many in the area, she has gotten used to the idea of disaster
tourism. More people have stopped to take pictures of the flood damage at her
store than she can count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She has even seen cars crash as they stop in front to rubberneck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``If the leaves are crappy this year,'' she said, ``at least
there's something to look at.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> can be
reached at <u>dabel@globe.com</u></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="verdana">By David</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Abel | </span><span class="verdana"> Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">October 16, 2013 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the bearded police<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_6"></a><span class="hit">officer</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shuffled up to the podium, his hands
clasped nervously in front of his clipped uniform-issued tie, there was a long
pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The soft-spoken patrolman, still
processing his sudden status as a local celebrity, looked down and then across
the media room at police headquarters, where a bank of cameras and lights was
facing him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_7"></a><span class="hit">Officer</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Stephen Horgan didn't appear to know
what to say, and those there from the media seemed unsure what to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So Commissioner Edward F. Davis prodded
the gaggle of cameramen and reporters, many of whom had been hounding the
27-year cop since his wide grin and raised hands became a symbol of triumph
throughout Red<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_8"></a><span class="hit">Sox</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Nation Sunday night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, one of the reporters asked
whether it was his first year working the bullpen at Fenway Park, which is
where he was standing at the moment the Detroit Tigers' Torii Hunter tumbled
over the wall in pursuit of David Ortiz's grand slam, the outfielder's
outstretched legs suspended forever next to Horgan's arms in Globe photographer
Stan Grossfeld's now iconic picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Yes," he said,
uncomfortably.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After a series of similarly
straightforward questions and short answers, another reporter asked what he
thought of all the publicity. "I'm humbled by it," he said. "I'm
not one to be at the center of attention."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Horgan, 50, said he's a lifelong Red<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_9"></a><span class="hit">Sox</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>fan and has been working details at
Fenway for more than 20 years, directing traffic, keeping peace in the stands,
protecting the dugout. When asked if the department discourages<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_10"></a><span class="hit">officers</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from cheering at the games, he deferred
to the commissioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We actually encourage it,"
Davis said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The commissioner noted that details at
Fenway are coveted assignments. "There's a lot of people who would like to
be there," he said, noting the captain of the police district that
includes the Fenway chooses who gets details in the park. "It's a good
job."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And it pays well, too: According to
payroll records, Horgan made $42,000 working details in 2012, on top of his
$73,000 salary, slightly above average total compensation for a Boston police<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_11"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_11"></a><span class="hit">officer</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When asked what he thought about as he
watched Ortiz's long ball soaring toward him, Horgan said he thought Hunter
would grab it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"And then I saw the ball land in
the bullpen, and because I'm a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_12"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_12"></a><span class="hit">Sox</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>fan, I just raised my arms," said
Horgan, a native of Walpole. "That's all."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the questions continued, one
reporter from a local television station apologized to Horgan. "Sorry
we're here," he said. "You seem a little reluctant to get this
attention."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then the reporter asked: "Do you
think it's crazy we're focusing so much on the fact that you just put your arms
up after a home run?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Yeah," he said. "I do
it every time. It's just the first time it was caught on film."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He saw Grossfeld's picture on his phone
before the game ended. "I couldn't believe it," he said. "I
couldn't believe it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When asked whether he tried to help
Hunter after he fell, Horgan said he walked over to him but that players,
staff, and the Red<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_13"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_13"></a><span class="hit">Sox's</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bullpen trainer came to the
outfielder's aid right away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The questions continued, veering toward
the intrusive, but the bespectacled patrolman graciously did his best to
explain the joys of being a fan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He noted that he grew his gray-speckled
beard before the playoffs in a show of support for the shaggy team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then he meditated on his place in local
lore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It will be great to be a part of
Red<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_14"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_14"></a><span class="hit">Sox</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>history," he said. "I'm a
lifelong fan. So this is going to be awesome."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When another reporter asked if he was
getting sick of strangers asking him to raise his hands for them, he said not
yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the cameramen took the opportunity
and egged him on to do just that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Horgan tried to make a quick escape,
but the cameramen were persistent. So Horgan relented and raised his arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He smiled sheepishly and held them
there, in front of the podium, like he was Rocky, or as if he had just won the
World Series, his fists clenched in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reporters and cameramen clapped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then the commissioner came to his
rescue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Alright, they'll keep you there
all day," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But, of course, someone asked him to do
it again, for a different angle, and Horgan did.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background: white;">By </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Abel | </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Globe
Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">March 23, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From her 19th-floor West End studio, Brittney Kirk can see clearly
across the city, a commanding perch that sometimes inspires vertigo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I look out my window, and I think, 'It's really, really high,'
'' she said. "It makes you dizzy.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Wednesday morning, as temperatures climbed, Kirk decided to
crack open a window to give her cat, Sugar, some air while she was at work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a decision she would regret. Around lunchtime, she received
a bewildering and frightening message from the Animal Rescue League of Boston:
They had Sugar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``There was only one way she could have gotten out,'' Kirk said.
``I was really nervous to call back.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But aside from some bruising on her chest, Sugar, a white domestic
shorthair with a pink nose, was just fine after falling from the open window
and landing on the ground, a surprisingly common result for cats who plunge
from great heights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``When she told us she lived on the 19th floor, we were pretty
blown away,'' said Brian O'Connor, rescue services manager for the Animal
Rescue League, who tracked Kirk down through a microchip that had been embedded
in Sugar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Research over the years into what has become called feline high-rise
syndrome helps explain how cats that have fallen from even greater heights
routinely survive without serious injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association study of
132 cats that had fallen from buildings in New York City over a five-month
period in the 1980s found that 90 percent had survived. A follow-up study by
researchers at the University of Zagreb in Croatia found 96 percent of 119 cats
who suffered similar falls had survived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Research has found that cats that fall four stories or less
usually survive without serious injuries, as well as those that fall from nine
stories or more. Those that fall between five and nine stories, however, are
the ones that land in the worst shape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reason: Cats take about nine stories before reaching terminal
velocity, when wind resistance ends the downward acceleration on their bodies.
That cruising speed - of about 60 miles per hour - apparently allows them to
relax, right their bodies, paws down, and assume a kind of sprawling position, like
a skydiver or a flying squirrel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr. Emily Pointer, medical coordinator at Bergh Memorial Animal
Hospital in New York, often sees between three and five cats a week that have
taken such plunges, especially when apartment dwellers start opening windows on
warm days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the years, she said, she has seen hundreds of cats that have
survived steep drops, many from more than 20 stories up. (She said the highest
fall she is aware of is a cat that survived with little more than a chipped
tooth after falling 32 stories.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The most common injuries are bruised or punctured lungs, because
cats usually land with legs stretched out horizontally, taking the impact
across their bodies. More substantial injuries come when a cat does not have
time to right itself or tries to brace for the blow with its paws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We get so, so frustrated, because we see it so commonly, and
it's totally preventable,'' said Pointer, noting that treatment for spinal
injuries or organ damage can cost cat owners thousands. ``It costs only a few dollars
to go to the hardware store and buy a screen for your window.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one knows why cats plummet from buildings so often. (Dogs also
fall from windows, but less frequently and usually with much worse
consequences.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I don't think cats jump on purpose,'' Pointer said. ``They have
a very strong prey drive. They may see a bird or insect, and jump for that.
They may also get startled by something if they are sitting on a ledge.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four-year-old Sugar, who is deaf, likes to stare at objects unseen
by human eyes, and has a proclivity for chasing her tail at 3 a.m. It's a
mystery how she fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe it was curiosity, or she saw something she wanted to grapple
with in the clouds, Kirk said. Or it could have been jealousy, as Kirk was to
be married Thursday. Or, Kirk said, ``it could have been nothing.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What she is certain of, however, is that Sugar is lucky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A woman on the second floor of her building spotted Sugar as she
flew through the air past her window and found the cat resting on a soft patch
of grass and mulch. She called building staff in the lobby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several people ushered Sugar inside and contacted the Animal
Rescue League, which took X-rays and found only slight bruising to her lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Kirk appreciated her cat back at home Thursday, she said it was
hard to tell anything had happened, except that Sugar appeared to be drowsy
from pain medication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``She's a tough little kitty,'' Kirk said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> can be
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span class="ssl0" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Debates swirling over the prohibition at</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="hit" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jamaica Pond</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="hit"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">By David
Abel | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">GLOBE STAFF | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">July 15, 2008</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The water sparkles
like a mirage in the summer sun, taunting joggers, fishermen, and neighbors
such as Tom Fendley, who has long gazed at the liquid remnants of a glacier and
wondered what it would be like to take a dip - without breaking the law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past year,
after wading into its placid warmth, the 37-year-old writer has been asking
city officials why he could be arrested for swimming in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Jamaica</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Pond</span>,
which on a good day mirrors the clear blue of a cloudless sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I found the
responses from the city unsatisfying," Fendley said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Officials told him
that it would be too dangerous and that he could be arrested for trespassing,
but, to him, it seemed easy enough to hire lifeguards and allot an area along
the beach designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Officials said it would ruin the
serenity of the pond to have children screaming and splashing, even though he
thought it could be limited to a few months and be regulated by time and
numbers. Officials told him it was a backup for the city's water supply, but
the 68-acre, spring-fed pond has not provided water to the city since 1848 and
would have to be treated if it were ever reconnected to the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So a few months ago
Fendley sent a letter to the neighborhood newspaper, asking: "Why not
allow Jamaica Plainers and others to swim in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Jamaica</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Pond</span>? Would it not be great to
have a local swimming hole, where the community can come together around one of
the oldest human pastimes in a beautiful setting?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was not such a
novel idea. Before the city began enforcing a no-swimming ordinance in 1975,
people of all ages could be found cooling off in the pond. The Parks and
Recreation Department even used to hold aquatic extravaganzas dubbed
"Water Wonderland," which attracted thousands of spectators and
featured water skiing competitions, rowing contests between firefighters and
police officers, and a fashion show by the pond's lifeguards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, after a
succession of heat waves and with few outdoor pools or other pristine bodies of
water nearby, more residents are asking similar questions about swimming in the
pond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But there is
passionate opposition. In a letter in the Jamaica Plain Gazette, Patrick Lally
called Fendley's ideas "naive and shortsighted."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Can you
imagine the deafening din of children from every corner of the city descending
on the pond? Yikes!" wrote Lally, 43, who lives on Sumner Hill. "I
would venture to guess that the garbage generated, the noise, the mayhem, the
increased parking would in fact deter neighbors and pond-lovers from taking
that relaxing stroll or run around the pond on a summer Sunday."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite the law,
the pond has remained an illicit refuge from the heat for many in the area,
even earning a listing in "Let's Go" for being a popular place for midnight
skinny-dipping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Julie Crockford,
the president of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, said she would support
swimming in the pond, if the city hired lifeguards, set strict rules, and
improved the beach in the southwestern corner of what was a glacier until about
14,000 years ago. "I would say it would be a wonderful opportunity for
residents," she said. "I do know people who have swum there, and
nothing untoward happened to them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the swimmers
is her daughter Kade, 24, who estimates that she has gone skinny-dipping in the
pond as many as 30 times over the past few years, usually late at night with
friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's
beautiful," she said. "It's really nice to be there at night, when no
one's around. It's really peaceful to swim in the center of the city."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another night
swimmer, Sean Madsen, says he has taken the plunge more than a dozen times,
though "not as often as I should."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's like
jumping into a big pool," said Madsen, 24, a software developer from
Jamaica Plain. "You don't have to walk for a long time before it drops off
and you can swim. It's beautiful with all the city lights reflecting off the
water."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stephanie Berry,
23, a preschool teacher, has blogged about her swims in the pond, which is
ungated. She remembers one night when the pond was so crowded with late-night
swimmers that she and her friends had a hard time finding their own secluded
spot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It feels
really great, especially when it's hot," she said. "I would like to
experience it during the day, rather than under the cloak of night." There
are day swimmers and not just those who have so-called accidents while renting
the sailboats and rowboats at the graceful century-old boathouse, which the
city restored in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For more than two
decades, Mark Adler, 57, a professor of mathematics at Brandeis University, has
evaded park rangers by doing his summer laps before 8 a.m., keeping close to
the tree-shaded shores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I swim in a
place discreetly hidden from the boathouse," he said. "The water's
very pleasant, very clean, a very nice temperature, which is why I swim there
and why others should be allowed to as well, provided it's controlled."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">City officials say
the swimmers are encouraging dangerous behavior, which over the years has led
to multiple drownings, including DeAngela Fuller, 43, a Roxbury mother and an
experienced swimmer who died after taking a dip on a hot evening last July.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Toni Pollak,
commissioner of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, acknowledged how
tempting it is to swim. But she said it would be too expensive to add enough
fill to level the submerged ground by the beach, which quickly drops to depths
of as much as 53 feet. She worries that swimmers would endanger local wildlife,
such as the snapping turtles, mallard ducks, and double-crested cormorants that
frequent the pond. Then there are the potential liability issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"As tempting
as it is, we do not allow swimming in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Jamaica</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Pond</span>," she said.
"It's really a public safety and wildlife preservation issue."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For 40 years, Gerry
Wright has helped preserve the pond's beauty as director of the Jamaica
Park/Olmsted Park Project, a citizens group that has pressured the city to
maintain the pond. He says allowing swimming to return would threaten the
delicate ecology, now in Zen-like balance, along the 1.5-mile trail surrounding
the water. He also worries more human interference could exacerbate what he
sees as the effects of global warming: algae blooms, eel grass, and other pond
scum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I would be
opposed to swimming every step of the way," Wright said. "Fully, I
grant that swimming is more than appropriate, but it would interfere with the
appreciation of the nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is the
city," he said. "It's not like Concord," where, at Walden Pond,
a similar "kettle hole" pond that is twice as deep, authorities have
found a way to balance preservation with swimming. But with the city under
pressure to provide more outdoor pools, some officials said they would be
willing to consider opening the pond to swimming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Emily Tisei Moscol,
who spent eight years teaching sailing at the pond, worries that swimmers would
muddy the water. "It would become brackish and dirty with children and
adults using it as their bathtub," said Moscol, 28, of Dedham. "Not
allowing swimming is one way of actually preserving the pond."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meira Levinson,
whose daughters have waded in up to their knees, frets about too much traffic
on local roads. But she argues that the joys of allowing swimming outweigh the
potential problems, which she considers manageable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Every time I
take my dog to swim in the pond in the summer, I think longingly of doing so
myself," said Levinson, 37, who lives off the Arborway in Jamaica Plain,
and is also breaking the law letting by letting her golden retriever frolic in
the water. "The opportunity to swim outdoors, in one's own neighborhood,
in fresh water, would be fantastic."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="hit">David
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">David Abel | </span><span style="background-color: white;">Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">January 17, 2012</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ABOARD THE VOYAGER III - There was nary a cloud in the sky, and the water was as smooth as glass, shimmering in the bright morning sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">National Park Ranger Hugh Hawthorne scanned the clear horizon as a flock of cormorants glided into the azure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``You really couldn't ask for a better day for a cruise - in January,'' he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an effort to draw visitors to the Boston Harbor islands, which this time of year mainly appear to be barren, windswept spits of rock covered by bleached shrubs, state and federal officials have teamed up with the owner of a whale-watching boat to offer what many New Englanders might consider to be an oxymoron: a winter cruise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But nearly 200 people yesterday thought this novel tourist attraction would be a good idea, even though it was 18 degrees when the catamaran left Long Wharf for a three-hour voyage to the Brewster Islands and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like most who joined the tour, Marcus Hunt came prepared for the arctic gusts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 38-year-old software engineer from Brookline wore a bulky parka and covered his head with a coyote fur-lined hood. He wore thick mittens and mountain climbing pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When asked why he would pay to do something that others might consider a form of torture, Hunt said he couldn't be happier to be on the water, in the resplendent sunshine, even if his fingers would grow numb and his cheeks turn rouge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a kind of adventure, I guess,'' he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hunt and others had come mainly to see the birds - red-throated loons, black-backed gulls, white-winged scoters, common goldeneyes, and more than a dozen others.</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GYpKB4vOEig/UtrwzSlF-OI/AAAAAAAAeEA/qFevrQGRRY0/s1600/539w+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GYpKB4vOEig/UtrwzSlF-OI/AAAAAAAAeEA/qFevrQGRRY0/s1600/539w+(1).jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At one point, as the 95-foot Voyager III neared Graves Lighthouse, one of the birders announced he spotted a king eider, a large sea duck that looks a bit like a penguin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It felt like the boat might lean precipitously as scores of passengers rushed to the rails, aiming binoculars and long camera lenses toward the dark water, where the bird bobbed in the surf until disappearing in the waves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``This is a great time to be out here, because it's like we have the water to ourselves,'' said Sally Quinn, 58, of Winchester, who is such an avid birder that she was listening to the sounds of scoters and comparing images of them on her iPad. ``But I thought there would have been only 15 of us hardy enough to be out here.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jess Renehan, a ranger with the Department of Conservation and Recreation, said she wasn't surprised by the large turnout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The islands are the best-kept secret in Boston, and this is one way we're helping people appreciate them,'' she said. ``We want people to appreciate them all year.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The jaunt was the first of nine winter cruises this year organized by DCR, the National Park Service, and the Boston Harbor Alliance on a vessel provided by Boston's Best Cruises. This one didn't stop at any of the Harbor islands and turned back after cruising around Hingham Bay. Some of the others are scheduled to let passengers explore the islands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mike McGurl, an owner of the boat, said his company risked making little to no profit on the trip, in hopes of generating interest for cruises to the islands when the weather doesn't require thermal underwear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We make it feel like we are on an expedition,'' said McGurl, whose company charges $20 a ticket. ``I always use the analogy that the cabin is like the ski lodge, with all of the amenities to make you warm, comfortable, and happy after spending some time out on deck.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among those amenities is a flat-screen television showing the image of a fireplace, which is where Telma Silva and two friends kept warm after braving the cold for a few raw minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 22-year-old student from Cambridge would have preferred to spend the day under covers, but her science teacher in a high school equivalency program suggested she and two other students join him. She had little choice, she said, as her friends joked about seeing whales where there were only super tankers and birds that were barely visible without binoculars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We didn't want to disappoint him,'' she said. ``He's crazy enthusiastic about birds.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To persuade her sister to join her, Laura Dill, 40, of Melrose, had to promise to help her make a cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As she sat in view of the fake fireplace, wearing two pairs of thick socks and hiking boots, she acknowledged the fleeting feeling in her toes. ``Unfortunately, it's not warming up my feet,'' she said of the flickering image on the television.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her sister, Elizabeth Dill, wore what she described as her ``comforter coat.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I thought she was crazy to want to do this,'' she said. ``But I'm a good sister.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While some slurped hot chocolate and spooned bowls of chili to stay warm, Nancy Santry said she couldn't think of a better way to spend a sunny day in January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The retired 65-year-old from Quincy was with several friends from the South Shore Camera Club, each of whom looked impervious to the cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``In the summer, the skies are a lot hazier and you don't get to see the same species,'' she said. ``It's perfect out here in the winter, with crisp skies and next to no boats. It's also good to get out of the house this time of year.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter@davabel.</i></span></div>
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<br /><span style="background: white;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="hit"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David
Abel | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">GLOBE STAFF | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">May 19, 2009 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the distance,
beyond the view of the drooling border collies, there they were, flaunting
their vitality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The troop of
goslings, cute as could be with their golden down and high-pitch squawking,
pranced behind their parents along the rocky edge of the Charles River,
munching the well-tended grass and relieving themselves whenever they felt the
need, oblivious of Len Ellis and his dogs, their stalkers on the Esplanade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ellis and his
playful predators were otherwise engaged against another covey in the perennial
battle with Canada geese, flocks of which continue to occupy broad swaths of
the Esplanade and turn the city's front lawn into a minefield of excrement,
despite years of efforts to banish them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``They have everything
they need here, plenty of grass, plenty of water, plenty of places to nest,''
said Ellis, 69, who has spent nearly every day of the last six years in a
Sisyphean skirmish with the obstinate birds. ``You have to harass them. That's
the name of the game - harass them until they don't want to be here anymore.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet they keep
coming back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result, local
officials are now considering more drastic methods before the molting season
begins in June and the geese lose their flying feathers for several months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At a meeting last
week between the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and the
Esplanade Association, officials discussed recruiting a volunteer force of dog
owners who might be allowed to unleash their pooches to aid Ellis, who visits the
Esplanade at most two hours a day and can only cover so much ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In recent weeks,
workers from the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service have used special net guns to capture and then kill at least
five overly aggressive birds, using carbon dioxide. The USDA already helps
local officials keep eggs from hatching by coating them in corn oil - an effort
that now takes place every spring from the Esplanade to the Public Garden to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">Jamaica
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but the oil has to be applied within a specific time frame or it is
ineffective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Monte Chandler,
director of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in Massachusetts,
said his staff plans to continue using the net guns, which fire a net and
create an explosive sound that helps disperse other birds. Chandler expects to
kill more aggressive birds before the molting season begins. He said they have
to be killed, because it is against the law to move geese from one location to
another, since that could spread disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``For this to have
an effect, you do have to reinforce the dispersal of the birds,'' Chandler
said. ``We can't relocate them, so we euthanize them offsite. I would think
euthanizing them with carbon dioxide is a lot more humane than being shot.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hunting them all isn't
a viable option, in part because local officials do not see that as a humane
plan and because it is difficult to capture them with net guns and using
shotguns would violate local and state laws against using firearms in an urban
area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Killing them is
not the answer,'' said Linda Huebner, deputy director of the advocacy
department of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. ``It's inhumane, and I would say, a temporary solution. If you have a
goose habitat, you will have geese.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other ideas local
officials have considered include spraying coyote urine around the park, which
apparently scares the birds away, although it could scare people away, too.
They have thought about erecting fences along the edge of the river, because
the birds like to waddle in and out, but that would mar the view. They have
also considered landscaping changes and increasing the number of signs to warn
people against feeding the birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The geese are not
going back to Canada, I can tell you that,'' said Sylvia Salas, executive
director of the Esplanade Association, a nonprofit group that helps maintain
the 3-mile ribbon of parks. The association spends about $300,000 a year
sprucing up the area, $24,000 of which pays for Ellis and his dogs to roust the
birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wildlife officials
said the last count in 2005 estimated that nearly 40,000 geese were in the
state, about 8,000 of them in metropolitan Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We've tried fake
coyotes, but the geese are smart, and it doesn't take them long to figure out
they're fake. All the poop is really concerning - I'm as bothered as anyone -
and it presents a health hazard. So, we're considering our methods.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other options for
reducing the geese population might be borrowed from local golf courses, which
share the Esplanade's problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jim Fitzroy,
director of Presidents Golf Course in North Quincy, said that, aside from
hunting, he has successfully dispersed geese with shotgun devices that fire
blank shells and make explosive noises. ``If you use it in the evening and early
mornings, when they congregate, it tends to be effective,'' he said. ``But if
you're not out there all the time, you get geese.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the Brae Burn
Country Club in Newton, one border collie keeps watch seven days a week. ``It's
a cat and mouse game,'' said Bob DiRico, superintendent of the course. ``But we
went from having a serious problem to no goose problem.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Daryn Brown,
superintendent of the Braintree Municipal Golf Course, had successfully
established a hunting program, but he gave up on it several years ago after it
became controversial. Now he uses a border collie and a remote control boat.
The dog herds the geese into water that borders the course, and the boat, which
travels 20 miles per hour, scares them away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``They're a good
team,'' said Brown, adding that the number of geese on the course has dropped
from about 500 before the golfing season started in March to about 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">H. Heusmann, a
waterfowl biologist with the state Department of Fish & Game, said that
what is needed is a regional effort, one that keeps the geese from flying from
one park or golf course to another. He said many of the birds have lived in the
area for years and will probably remain there until they die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The only answer
in urban areas is to destroy their eggs and to coordinate that throughout the
area,'' he said. ``This will take years.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until then, there's
Len Ellis and his dogs, Fly and Lyn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every morning at
about 6 and later at about 2 p.m., Ellis and his border collies scour the
Esplanade from the Hatch Shell to the lagoon. When the dogs catch sight of the
fowl, Ellis barks his orders and the dogs chase them into the Charles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their difficult struggle is visible at nearly every step. The geese droppings
are nearly everywhere, and as soon as Ellis and his collies walk away, the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I'm like the
insurance guy,'' Ellis said. ``I don't guarantee that the number will get to
zero, but without me, there's going to be a lot more of a mess.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span class="hit">David
Abel</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>can
be reached at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/mail\.google\.com\/mail\/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel\@globe\.com\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;">dabel@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">NORTH CONWAY, N.H. - An hour after fielding the call last Saturday, the third of its kind in less than a month, Lieutenant Todd Bogardus stood at the edge of a steep trail, barking orders to gathering officers and volunteers in a race to save yet another hiker trapped in the White Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With winds howling at 40 miles per hour, the sun slipping over the horizon, and temperatures plummeting into the single digits, the leader of the state's rescue team traced the GPS signal from the victim's cellphone. He radioed the coordinates to the National Guard crew hovering nearby in a Black Hawk helicopter, which soon afterward spotted the hiker's headlamp in the high, fog-shrouded snowdrifts of the Pemigewasset Wilderness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From 150 feet above, the crew in the helicopter lowered a cable carrying a crewman, who snatched up Benjamin Davis, 28, a Suffolk Law School student suffering frostbite. If it weren't for the rescue, he almost certainly would have died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I would say he was negligent," said Bogardus, coordinator of the search and rescue team for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, which oversees rescue efforts in the White Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"His leather boots were inadequate for the hike, and he didn't follow the weather reports. Had he followed the weather, he wouldn't have put so many people in danger."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the beginning of the year, Bogardus's team has launched 11 missions to rescue lost, missing, or injured people, two of whom died and at least another four required medical attention after losing their way in the White Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Such missions, which state officials say are becoming more frequent and more expensive, have raised questions about the responsibilities of hikers who venture into the wilderness at the expense of public agencies. They have also sparked an effort by New Hampshire lawmakers to pass new legislation that would require more lost hikers to repay the state for rescuing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From 2004 to the end of 2007, the state spent more than $1 million and devoted about 14,900 hours to rescue 725 people, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Of those victims, 28 percent were rescued in 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last fiscal year, the department spent more than $257,000 on rescue operations and for the first time ended the year with a deficit in its search and rescue account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">State officials and local mountaineers in part blame a growing class of novice adventurers, many of whom gain false confidence from new GPS devices, cellphones, and flashy gear from proliferating outdoor stores such as REI and Eastern Mountain Sports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In recent years, Brad White, the director of the International Mountain Climbing School in North Conway, has received more and more calls from people in the mountains asking for help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"People call and say, `I think I'm lost," he said. "They have a GPS system, but they don't know how to use it to figure out the coordinates. Sometimes, when we send the calls to Fish and Game, they say they've figured out they're still on the trail. There are lots of calls these days from people who just want someone to come in and get them, but it just doesn't happen like that."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He and others who have helped rescue lost hikers tell stories of people venturing deep into the mountains without compasses or maps. They rely on GPS devices and cellphones, but then the batteries die. Last Monday, two Virginia men caught in a torrential rain storm and 5-foot-deep snow got lost when they followed their GPS the wrong way. It took rescuers two days to find Alex Obert, 30, and Steven McCay, 29, of Arlington, Va., who were on a 19-mile trek across the Presidential Range in the White Mountains. As the men tried to make their way out of the Dry River Wilderness on the south side of Mount Washington, a helicopter crew found their tracks in the snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a phone interview at his home, Obert described himself and McCay as experienced hikers who had previously trekked in the area and had come prepared with GPS, two-way radios, avalanche beacons, cellphones, and topographical maps. He said they were victims of the extreme weather and had trouble following their GPS, because they kept losing the signal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We took everything seriously," Obert said. "But if people are found negligent, I think it's valid they pay the state back. But I don't feel we were negligent."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The New Hampshire House is considering a bill that would change the language of a 1999 state law that allows public agencies to recoup expenses from those who "recklessly or intentionally create a situation requiring an emergency response."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"People doing dumb things have to be held accountable," said Dennis Abbott, chairman of the New Hampshire House's Fish and Game Committee, which will vote on the bill in coming weeks. "They're not just putting themselves in harm's way. They're putting a lot of other people in harm's way, and there needs to be some responsibility."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The proposed new language, which Abbott expects will become law this spring, would lower the threshold for the public to compel repayment. The bill changes the language of the law from "recklessly" to "negligently" prompting an emergency response. For those who don't pay, the bill would allow the state to suspend the person's driver's license and other state licenses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The difference, he and others said, is that "reckless" implies someone who becomes aware of a substantial risk and consciously disregards that risk; a "negligent" person is someone who fails to become aware of the risk that a reasonable person should have been aware of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is much harder to prove someone was reckless. For example, Bogardus and other officers said it would be much easier to make the case that Laurence Frederickson, 55, of South Sutton, N.H., and James Osborne, 36, of Manchester, N.H., were negligent when they set out on a 9-mile hike on Feb. 11 along the Franconia Ridge Loop without emergency gear, such as a protective bivouac to survive subzero nights and sudden whiteouts, despite a poor weather forecast. They eventually ran into a wall of snow, wind, and subzero temperatures, which left Frederickson dead and Osborne suffering hypothermia and severe frostbite. Like the other searches, the rescue cost the state thousands of dollars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"They were certainly not fully prepared for an emergency situation, and when an emergency situation came about, they did not have adequate gear to help them survive," Bogardus said. "They failed in proper planning, in not assessing weather patterns."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Osborne, who was admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., declined to comment. Frederickson's relatives could not be reached.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past decade, the state has had little success in recovering costs from reckless hikers. Fifteen people or groups repaid the state $23,780, less than half what the state says it paid for their rescues, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another approach, which has worked in the past, is what Rick Wilcox, the state's dean of mountaineering, calls "mandatory donations."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the last 30 years, Wilcox, president of Mountain Rescue Service and owner of International Mountain Equipment in North Conway, estimates he has helped organize about 450 rescue missions, including one effort in 1981 that ended with the death of a member of his rescue team. Since then, when he finds obvious negligence, he lets survivors know that donations to the Mountain Rescue Service, composed of about 50 volunteer mountaineers, should be in order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's one thing to break a leg and need to be carried out, but if you ignore weather reports and go without night gear, that's stupidity, and in those cases, I think a mandatory donation is appropriate," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some mountaineers on the rescue team don't think the law should change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They wonder where the negligence line would be drawn; would someone hiking in jeans or with old equipment be considered negligent?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"You can't keep hikers to a higher standard than people on the street," said Silas Rossi, a guide in the White Mountains who has helped rescue those whose plans went awry. "Accidents happen, no matter how prepared you are."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But state officials argue the expense, danger, and manpower needed for mountain rescues make them different from emergency situations in everyday life. As calls for mountain rescues have increased in recent years, they insist the law must change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the supporters of the new bill is New Hampshire Army National Guard Staff Sergeant Matt Stohrer, who served on the last three helicopter rescue missions in the White Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last Saturday, after the call came over the radio from Bogardus, he was lowered from the helicopter hovering over Benjamin Davis into 6 feet of snow and 80-mile-per-hour winds from the blades of the Guard's Black Hawk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I would describe these missions as more dangerous than getting shot at in Iraq," said Stohrer, who spent two years there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the ground, Stohrer detached himself from the cable and detonated a smoke grenade marking his position on the mountain with billows of red. He screamed over the roar, ordering Davis to walk through the snow toward him immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Davis did not return repeated calls, and his mother declined to comment when reached at their home in Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stohrer said Davis struggled through the chest-deep snow in bare feet, because he had taken off his wet boots during the night in an attempt to dry them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"They're putting all the rescuers' lives at risk," Stohrer said, "and I don't think that's right."</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">EDGARTOWN - The sun-bronzed man ambled toward the lapping waves,
but unlike other visitors to this peaceful beach at the southeastern tip of
Martha's Vineyard, Erik Toews was not preparing to luxuriate in the surf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Navy veteran slipped on a deep-sea mask, attached a long,
oxygen-filled cord, and marched into the ocean to fish for something no tourist
on this island would want to discover during an afternoon swim: bombs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's a good day when we find warheads,'' Toews, 40, said after a
recent dive, one of scores off the island's South Beach in search of
explosives. ``It makes us feel like we're getting something done.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two years after a powerful storm opened a milewide breach along a
nearby beach, the currents south of Martha's Vineyard have changed and given
rise to swirling eddies and white-capped riptides. They have also unearthed the
remnants of a bombing range the Navy operated here during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The rusted, conical-shaped rockets that have turned up
sporadically for years were mostly thought of as historical curiosities until
their numbers started to increase over the past year. Then dozens of rockets
and a succession of larger munitions washed ashore, specifically, three live
100-pound bombs, each of which looked like a beached seal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the last one appeared in April on a beach in West Tisbury,
local bomb squads used shaped charges to detonate the large bombs built to
destroy tanks and buildings, sending an ominous echo heard more than a mile
away and sparking dozens of calls to island authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The thing that worries us is that there's no rhyme or reason to
where they're coming from, no forewarning for when they'll turn up,'' said
Chris Kennedy, the island's regional director for the Trustees of Reservations,
which oversees many local beaches. ``People have a right to be concerned. These
were some of the most sensitive explosive materials used in World War II
munitions.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one has been injured by any of the bombs, but Kennedy said
there have been close calls. When a 100-pound bomb washed up near Wasque Point
this year, one of Kennedy's colleagues thought it was sea junk and was about to
toss it in the back of his pickup truck before he reported it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``There but for the grace of God,'' Kennedy said. ``We don't know
what would have happened, had he picked it up.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since April, with the tourist season rapidly approaching, the US Army
Corps of Engineers has tapped into a large pool of money set aside by the
Defense Department to clean up former defense sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With more than $1 million, the Corps of Engineers has hired Toews
and other veterans to comb the waters off Martha's Vineyard for the vintage
weaponry, which they believe come from an aerial machine-gun and rocket range
on South Beach. They believe that the larger bombs have probably drifted from
another old naval target range on Nomans Land island, 3 miles southwest of the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past few months, the divers have used high-tech sensors
and other tools to search 58 acres up to 110 feet offshore along Cape Poge and
South Beach, where as many as 10,000 people come on a weekend day during the
summer, local beach officials say. They have at least 6 acres left and hope to
finish by July 2, when school ends and tourists flock to the island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In that time, they have found 124 MK-23 bombs, five MK-5 bombs,
and nearly 2,000 pounds of other bomb parts off Cape Poge. Along South Beach,
where the work continues, they have found about 115 similar bombs, many of them
designed to destroy submarines. None of those weapons, nearly all covered in
rust and barnacles, contained explosives or rocket propellant or posed any
danger, aside from cuts to unsuspecting swimmers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the threat of an explosion is always there, making the work
painstaking and tedious. The divers use waterproof magnetometers to detect
metal buried in the ocean floor, and when they find it, they use a special pump
to remove the surrounding sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before they handle the bombs, they inspect them carefully, relying
on a video feed to a trailer on the beach, where colleagues check to see
whether the weapons have experienced high-speed flight or signs of impact. The
divers do not touch the bombs until all agree that the old weapons appear
inert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We don't take any chances,'' said Tom Rancich, chief executive
of VRHabilis Co., the diving company doing the work. ``They're not moved until we're
sure.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Corps of Engineers officials say the search may have to be
extended to other parts of the island, given the currents and the possibility
many of the old bombs have drifted elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For now, they are working with local officials to raise awareness
of the potential danger. Warning signs have been posted in the area that say in
bold type that ``World War II munitions may be present'' and advise visitors
that the bombs ``should be treated as live munitions that have the potential to
detonate, causing serious injury or death.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``When it comes to munitions, you can never say they're 100
percent clear,'' said Carol Charette, the project manager overseeing the work
for the Corps of Engineers. ``There's never a guarantee that more won't show
up. You clear the area as best as you can.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The stark language and persisting danger has rattled local
officials, who are already coping with a dip in tourism as a result of the cold
spring and the recession. The number of visitors traveling to Martha's Vineyard
by ferry has dropped more than 3 percent during the first six months of this
year, compared with last year, according to the Steamship Authority, which
operates the ferries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I've been swimming off South Beach my whole life, and I will
continue to swim there,'' said Pamela Dolby, town administrator of Edgartown.
``The greater concern right now is the weather.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha's Vineyard
Chamber of Commerce, said she has confidence in the response by local, state,
and federal officials, and she thinks tourists will understand that the risks
of the bombs are remote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Most people are pretty smart,'' she said. ``They know folks are
taking care of it.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Friday afternoon, not far from where the divers were going
about their work, Sara Herdman and her young family watched the waves crashing
on shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 33-year-old from Washington, D.C., and her young family have
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of shark sightings and other threats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When she learned from a reporter what the
divers were doing, she stopped to think about it. She looked at her baby, lying
in her husband's arms. ``It does give me pause,'' she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Abel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> can be
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.625;">Brian Skerry has logged more than 10,000 hours taking pictures beneath the planet’s most remote seas – shooting everything from harp seals under ice in northern Canada to right whales off New Zealand’s Auckland Islands. So it seems like a bad omen when Skerry hops into the frigid waters of a rocky inlet off Cape Ann and yelps a mild epithet.</span></div>
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It’s a few days after Thanksgiving, and the award-winning <i class="i" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Geographic</i> photographer from Uxbridge is starting the first shoot of a five-year project to chronicle the life teeming off the New England coast. The water in Folly Cove is 43 degrees, and Skerry is diving in a drysuit. But the hardy 50-year-old has forgotten his thermal undergarments, the only such lapse he can remember in his 35-year career, making the splash into the turbid water like a dunk into an ice-filled tub. The stabbing sensation recedes into a kind of gnawing numbness as he descends along a granite ledge with more than $20,000 in cameras and strobe lights in tow.</div>
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Skerry captures this image of a vividly colored sea raven.</div>
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I’ve joined Skerry on the dive today, and so has a photographer friend of his. I’m a tad skittish, in my wetsuit with as many layers as I can fit beneath it for warmth. Even with the extra insulation, it’s by far the coldest dive I’ve experienced.</div>
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As we trail behind, Skerry hovers over a patch of sand about 30 feet below the surface, where all the shells are alive, and hermit crabs and other creatures skitter along the seabed. Skerry spends a few minutes looking for compelling contrasts between the dark splotches of scattered sand dollars and the white bottom before finding a large moon snail, a luminously spectral creature about the size of a fist that doesn’t seem to take notice as Skerry clicks away from above.</div>
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Taking pictures underwater can be uniquely challenging, especially when the seas are filled with plankton and bacteria, as they are on this November morning, reducing visibility to 15 feet. “The ocean acts as a giant filter, with the water absorbing color and wreaking havoc on light, reflecting, refracting, and scattering it,” Skerry says afterward. “If you’re not careful, you’ll illuminate all the particles in the water.”</div>
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Skerry doesn’t use telephoto lenses. Instead, he gets as close as possible, whether to sharks, whales, or giant squids, and his photographs have been published in nearly 20 <i class="i" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Geographic</i> articles and five books. His most recent book, <i class="i" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ocean Soul</i>, made up of highlights from his work around the world, came out last fall.</div>
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During the 44 minutes he spends at the bottom of Folly Cove, Skerry begins to lose feeling in most of his extremities. But he continues to search for a worthy image to capture for a book he hopes to publish at the end of his project in New England. He plans to shoot everything from cod to lobster in Stellwagen Bank, Cashes Ledge, and Jordan Basin in the Gulf of Maine, hoping to illustrate the splendor and squalor of the cold, dark waters where he grew up diving.</div>
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As he swims amid piles of submerged rocks, peering into the shadows of the flickering light filtering down, he finds what he’s looking for: something unexpected. Appearing to be taking a nap on one rock is a bright-yellow sea raven, a monstrous-looking fish about a foot long, with prickly fins, globular eyes, several rows of sharp teeth, and a fleshy mouth ringed with spiny tabs that resemble a poorly groomed beard.</div>
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Skerry spends about 15 minutes aiming his strobes and Nikon D3S at the fish hidden in the underwater foliage, snapping as many as 100 frames in search of the right composition, lighting, and what he calls the “gesture and grace” of his signature photographs.</div>
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“A scene that has grace is often gentle,” he says. “It has a beauty that makes your eye move around the picture in a lyrical way.” In a typical magazine assignment for <i class="i" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Geographic</i>, he might shoot as many as 40,000 frames and publish just a dozen. “This job requires patience,” he says.</div>
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After a few minutes, the sea raven seems to awaken from its slumber and swims away leisurely, disappearing into the briny murk. With little feeling left in his hands and feet, Skerry points his thumbs at the surface and ascends to the waiting boat. Also numb, with the frigid water permeating every layer I have on, I <span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.625;">follow him without hesitation.</span></div>
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“I thought I had hypothermia,” he says while slipping out of his gear, “but when I saw that sea raven, I forgot about the cold.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><a href="" name="HIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">David Abel | Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">August 19, 2010</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SPRINGFIELD - They came because they wanted to show that love can have more force than hate, that good can triumph over evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What was once a heap of ash and mangled steel, a symbol of racist vitriol, is slowly rising into what these volunteers hope will be a beacon of justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I feel people forget that racism is still a problem in our country,'' said Charli Lighty, 24, who flew in from California to lend a hand. ``This is my way of saying that what happened here is not OK and that no matter how many times people tear things down, people like us will be here to build it right back up again.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly two years ago, on a night when much of this city celebrated President Obama's election, Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr., learned that the church his congregation had nearly finished building was on fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When he arrived at the scene shortly before dawn, he felt a deep despair as he watched flames lick the sky, heard steel beams buckle, and breathed in the acrid air while his sanctuary crackled into embers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I wanted to run in and save it, but it was totally consumed,'' said Robinson, pastor for 10 years of Macedonia Church of God in Christ, which his father founded in 1950. ``I felt helpless - and maybe some anger.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It got worse when he learned that three young white men had been accused of torching a church with a predominantly black membership to protest the election of the nation's first black president.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the past 21 months, the anger has given way to hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And yesterday, as Governor Deval Patrick paid his third visit to the church, Robinson beamed as Lighty and her team of volunteers from California drilled holes, hammered nails, and sawed planks of wood, giving a soaring shape to the new sanctuary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The volunteers were one of four teams from around the country who have come to Springfield this summer to help rebuild the church, which is slated to open next spring. They have ranged in age from 15 to 87 years old and are among hundreds of others who have sent nearly $100,000 in donations to defray the cost of the $2 million project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The volunteers, organized by the National Coalition of Burned Churches, each paid about $800 to spend the week working in Springfield. They came, they said, because they wanted to prove there could be justice in the wake of such a crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``We want the people who cause havoc to know that no matter what they do, there are more people like us who want to make this a better world,'' said Alex Santa Maria, 17, who flew in from Sun Valley to help the church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Three people have been charged with climbing through a window of the church on the night of the election in 2008, and igniting it with gasoline, to show their disapproval of Obama's election. The church was about two-thirds finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two defendants, Benjamin F. Haskell, 23, and Thomas A. Gleason Jr., 22, have pleaded guilty to arson and are awaiting sentencing. A third defendant, Michael F. Jacques, 25, is awaiting a trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After a receiving a tour of the rising church and thanking the volunteers, Patrick called the project a ``triumph of love and community and faith over hate.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The fact that there are volunteers coming from around the country to make common cause with Macedonia is a beautiful thing,'' he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno of Springfield urged others to contribute to the new church. ``Whether it's blood, sweat, tears, or monetary, the help is more than welcome,'' Sarno said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jim Tarrant, construction manager of the project, said volunteers have saved the church about $30,000 on labor, and he would be happy to have more helpers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His staff has laid the church's concrete foundation and erected its 32-foot slanting steel beams that make up the roof. They have broken up the 18,000-square-foot complex into a 500-seat sanctuary, a fellowship hall for wedding receptions and other community activities, prayer rooms, and offices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The volunteers included several veterans of rebuilding other burned churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Richard Garner, the 63-year-old pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Glendale, the trip to Springfield was the eighth time he volunteered to help rebuild a church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I'm used to doing this in small churches in the South; you don't expect this in a place like Massachusetts,'' he said. ``It's amazing and disconcerting what happened here. We thought people here would have moved beyond this. So we're doing what we can.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ken Ellis, 69, of North Hollywood, has helped rebuild 11 churches. ``It's hard to imagine how devastating it was for this congregation, given how close they were to finishing their church,'' he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Bishop Robinson watched the volunteers, he said that at times over the past two years he has felt like Job, forced to suffer without understanding why. But the more help he has received from strangers, he said, the more his faith has been reaffirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's hard to understand such an act of hatred and violence,'' Robinson said. ``But we have also seen the opposite, with all these people who came here at their own expense to help. We see this as a sign for hope.''</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel. </span></i></div>
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I was clinging to the top of the ladder, waving a paintbrush with my free hand to swat at the wasp circling my head. It was hot, and sweat trickled into my eyes, which must have reflected a mix of fear and frustration as I neared the wasp’s nest. An edge along the roof remained unpainted, a glaring omission that taunted me as the sorties drew closer and more menacing.</div>
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The ranch house where we lived in suburban New York needed a fresh coat. My dad, a stickler who didn’t brook shortcuts, decided I should use a brush rather than a roller. He also decided the house should be stained rather than painted. That meant a lot more work.</div>
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Over several grueling weeks, I learned how much slower it was to apply stain, which requires more brush strokes. I also learned how much harder it was to remove the splotches of stain that coated nearly every part of my body. I spent hours using turpentine to scrub away the copper-colored blotches.</div>
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I learned quickly that I lacked talent with a brush or roller. I found I had to use tape to prevent the inevitable wayward strokes and drop cloths to keep the spatter off carpeting or patios. (Sometimes I spent more time cleaning than painting.)</div>
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Then there were the more serious blunders, like the time we doused a couch and sprinkled paint on a wardrobe. There were broken windows from misplaced ladders and damaged clapboard from scraping too aggressively. Insurance, I learned later, was a worthwhile investment.</div>
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There was only so much time for loafing. This meant I had to learn how to manage conflict when a friend had to be dragged out of bed in the morning or decided to take an extended lunch break.</div>
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My last turn as a summer painter came during college in Ann Arbor, Mich., where I put a classified ad in the local paper, distributed signs around town, and hired a small crew.</div>
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We had a steady flow of interior and exterior jobs, and for the most part, we had happy customers who got a tedious task done at a relative bargain.</div>
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But we could be sloppy and had our share of disgruntled clients, some of whom pressed us to apply additional coats and fix things that it wasn’t always clear we had broken.</div>
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One day, an older man asked if he could join the crew. He said he had a lot of experience, and we needed the help. He was an excellent painter: fast, fearless, methodical. But after a half day, he disappeared.</div>
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It was a good thing, I learned. He had told the other guys that he owned a gun and planned to use it for some kind of crime if he couldn’t make ends meet.</div>
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A few days later, the painter left me a message, saying he wanted to be paid for the few hours he worked. Then he started to leave threatening messages. I was reluctant to give in to a guy who abandoned the job, but in the end, I paid him.</div>
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The experience offered some final lessons: Some battles aren’t worth fighting. Cut your losses quickly. Most importantly, it was time to find a new line of work.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><a href="" name="HIT_1" style="background-color: white;"></a><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">David Abel</span><span style="background-color: white;"> | Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">December 20, 2008</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a cold rain slanted into his eyes, Mark Collins stood ankle-deep in a muddy puddle in a hole about 6 feet below ground. Just another day and another hole for a job that keeps him digging - and keeps the pipes of the city in good shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The colder it is, the harder it is to dig," he said as he shoveled dirt and rocks this week in an effort to repair a leaky water pipe beneath a Roxbury sidewalk. "But someone's got to do it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every day, city residents use nearly 70 million gallons of water, which swishes through more than 1,000 miles of underground pipes. When one breaks, as occurred this week beside City Hall, hundreds of thousands of gallons of water seep into the ground and flood surrounding streets, damaging property and raising water costs for everyone in the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past decade, as erosion and widespread construction have weakened aging pipes, city officials have poured $335 million into replacing and repairing the system. Part of the money has paid for the work of a crack squad of hole-digging, sound-detecting technicians such as Collins, who spend their shifts scouring the city for leaks and patching them to prevent breaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the aid of technology - sophisticated sensors and computers have mostly replaced the old stethoscope-like devices that listened for leaks from the street - Boston has kept the number of <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> breaks to significantly lower levels than similarly sized cities and helped conserve water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result, city officials say, they have saved residents millions of dollars a year in costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We purchase less water today than the system leaked" 30 years ago, said Thomas Bagley, deputy director of communications for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission. "Since 1977, there has been an 82 percent reduction in unaccounted-for water," or water lost to leaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In all, about 483 miles of <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_3"></a><a href="" name="HIT_3"></a><span class="hit">water mains</span> have been replaced or relined, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So far this year, the city has had 35 <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_4"></a><a href="" name="HIT_4"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> breaks. The number of breaks - which officials say are more often the result of construction than age - has remained relatively constant, ranging in recent years from a low of 29 in 2005 to a high of 54 in 1995. The number of leaks discovered has fallen slightly over recent years, with 197 found in 2006 compared with 156 so far this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the amount of water wasted from the leaks and breaks has fallen sharply. In 2005, the city lost 12 percent of an average 77.5 million gallons of water used daily; this year, the system has so far lost 7.9 percent of an average 68.5 million gallons of water used every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tom Curtis, deputy executive director of the American Water Works Association, a Washington-based engineering society for water utilities, said Boston's 1,018 miles of water piping for its 600,000 residents compares favorably to other cities. On average, cities with more than 1,000 miles of pipes have 250 <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_5"></a><a href="" name="HIT_5"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> breaks a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For example, Washington, D.C., which has 1,300 miles of pipes serving 572,000 people, had 502 <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_6"></a><a href="" name="HIT_6"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> breaks last year. Officials in San Francisco, which has about 1,250 miles of pipes serving 750,000 people, said they average about 100 breaks a year. And in Fort Worth, where 3,300 miles of pipes provide water to more than a million people, there have been 263 <a href="" name="ORIGHIT_7"></a><a href="" name="HIT_7"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> breaks this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The low breakage rate in Boston is not an accident," Curtis said. "Everyone in the water community considers Boston to have one of the best asset management programs."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">City water officials are looking at how to use their new technology to make an even more substantial cut in the amount of water lost to leaks and breaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the last 20 years, the city has relied mainly on customer complaints to find leaks, and they have repaired or replaced an average of 17 miles of pipe a year based on where city work crews were repaving roads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John Sullivan, chief engineer of Boston's Water and Sewer Commission, said the city now reads meters remotely, often multiple times a day; less than a decade ago, they could read the meters only every few months by sending a technician out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They're also placing dozens of new sensors in downtown pipes, where most of the main breaks happen because of all the construction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"With sophisticated mapping data, we can now find the most vulnerable pipes, take them out of the ground, send them to labs, and seek how much life is left in them - before there's a break or leak," Sullivan said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But with all the jack-hammering and tunneling, main breaks are inevitable. For example, Sullivan suspects a recent project beside City Hall led to Wednesday's rupture of a high-pressure pipe for fire hydrants on Congress Street, which left hundreds of thousands of gallons flooding the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The pipes rely on the soil being completely around them," he said. "Small disturbances in the soil can have big effects."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week, as sheets of rain coated their hard hats, one of the city's leak-detection units prowled through downtown, Roxbury, and Dorchester for problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Lincoln Street near Chinatown, Michael Campbell used a meat hook to open an iron water valve-box cover, lowered a DigiCorr Pro sensor several feet below the pavement, and walked back to a city van, where a radio signal sent a graphic display to a laptop computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was listening for a high-pitched screaming sound or a telltale spike in the graphic. "The equipment's now so sensitive you can hear people talking [through the pipes], pick up radio stations, or hear people taking showers," Campbell said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On this morning, with cars too closely streaming past, the team found no sign of a leak. So they packed up their gear and moved to the next location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_8"></a><a href="" name="HIT_8"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br class="br" style="background-color: white;" /><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">By David Abel</span><span style="background-color: white;"> | Globe Staff | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">February 11, 2009</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some are small gouges the size of a boot, and others look like sinkholes nearly large enough to swallow a car. Across the city, cratered roads have made driving feel like navigating a minefield, where one unlucky turn could easily destroy a tire or worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It falls to city employees like Joe Ronca and Malcolm Steadman to patch up Boston's crumbling pavement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly every day now, the men start at 6 a.m. by collecting 2 tons of steaming asphalt and heading for the streets that have received the most complaints. The tar-covered duo, one of the city's 10 pothole squads, have been patching craters together for 21 years, but they do not complain about the Sisyphean task of having to repair the same roads again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It gives us job security," Ronca joked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So far this fiscal year, the city has spent $94,000 on more than 3 million pounds of asphalt to plug potholes, a 20 percent rise over last fiscal year and an 80 percent increase over fiscal 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the hardest work is only starting, as winter's deep freeze gives way to more frequent thaws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the cycle of melting, refreezing, and cracking of fresh asphalt accelerates, Ronca, Steadman, and the other crews first respond to complaints called into the city's hotline. After they have worked through the list, they fan out to repair any rutted roads they find in their assigned districts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Their work never seems to end, especially this week, after the weekend's temperature seesawed from a low of 16 degrees on Saturday to a high of 51 degrees on Sunday to a low of 25 degrees Monday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John Dooley has seen the worst of broken roads, but after 25 years in the business of patching potholes, he has not experienced a more trying season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's horrible," said Dooley, an assistant superintendent in the Department of Public Works and Transportation who oversees the city's pothole crews. "I can't remember it being worse."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the last three fiscal years, the city has patched on average nearly 45,000 potholes, most between February and May. The city has not completed statistics for this fiscal year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"You have to stay on top of it," said Dennis Royer, the city's public works and transportation chief, noting that an inch-wide crack can grow as much as 2 feet overnight. "If you don't take care of them right away, they grow, they multiply, very quickly. We try to get them when they're small."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, the weather tends to move more quickly than the department, and Ronca, 68, and Steadman, 46, often feel as if they are trying to plug leaks in a never-ending flood. But city officials said their teams do their best to respond to drivers' complaints. Last week, crews repaired all but two of the 80 potholes they had been alerted about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pavers' tools are simple: shovels, rakes, and a dump truck filled with tons of a pungent, 360-degree asphalt that often drips off the back of the tilting flatbed and can easily singe exposed skin. "You don't want to step in it," advises Ronca, whose boots are stained and sprinkled with fresh asphalt. "It will melt your shoes."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rolling up the blackened sleeves of his gray sweatshirt, Steadman showed the risks of getting burned. "It's hot," he says. "If it gets on you, you have to go to the hospital. It hardens, and if you peel it off, it takes off seven layers of skin. That doesn't feel good."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to a strong back and an immunity to acrid fumes, the job also requires a tolerance for less-than-amiable drivers. Unlike other city workers who do their jobs in the street, the pavers rarely stay in the same place for long and often work without the benefit of traffic cones. They move quickly, their truck moving slowly along long stretches of pavement. And they try to ignore the beeping and other taunts from the traffic as they shovel asphalt off the truck and onto the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a recent afternoon in South Boston, as scores of cars and trucks maneuvered around them on A Street, the men in neon-colored vests exhibited their skill. In less than an hour, they covered about a quarter mile of the pitted road, filling about 50 potholes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But even though they were applying a permanent patch - on colder days, they use a different mix of asphalt, designed to last only a few weeks - they did not expect it to last long. "If there's more snow in the next few days, we'll probably be back here in a week," Steadman said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a typical day now, the crew uses about 8,000 pounds of asphalt to fill hundreds of potholes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is back-stressing work, even for younger men, but Ronca said he enjoys it. "You don't think about; you just keep moving," he says. "It comes naturally."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After working together for so long, the pair know each other's strengths. Ronca leaves most of the raking to Steadman, because the raking hurts Ronca's chest. They take turns tamping down the piles of fill, which take about 10 minutes to dry and are further smoothed by passing traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The crew can fill a bowling ball-sized pothole in less than a minute. They just drop down the asphalt, rake it into the crevices, and tamp it down. But some holes are more of a challenge. After a recent <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4003850701266134173" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">water main</span> break in South Boston, they said it took them nearly an hour to pack in the 500 pounds of asphalt needed to fill the resulting crater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The newer the streets, and where there's less traffic, there isn't as much of a problem," said Steadman, adding that newly paved streets often last more than five years without yielding to potholes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Their other partner, William Tatseos, 66, drives the truck and follows their instructions to move forward, backward, and to raise or lower the flatbed. Asked why he gets to sit in the heated truck, he said: "I'm too old to give them a hand."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reminded that he is two years younger than Ronca, he demurred, saying. "But they're really good at what they do."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blind and hearing-impaired, Carl Richardson stood at a crosswalk in front of the State House that has no ramp.</span></div>
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For years, Carl Richardson has shuffled gingerly across the uneven sidewalks and poorly cut curbs of Beacon Hill, guided by a dog and the hope that a loose brick or an unexpected slope doesn’t trip him up.</div>
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His journey would be made far easier by a city proposal to install 259 pedestrian ramps with tactile warning strips throughout the historic neighborhood, as part of a decades-long effort to bring the city’s curbs into compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.</div>
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But the plan was rejected in December by officials of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission. Why? Because they believed, among other things, that the bumpy plastic strips would mar the neighborhood’s Colonial-era character.</div>
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Long after other parts of the city, including other designated historic districts, have come into compliance with the disabilities act or have reached agreements to do so, Beacon Hill remains the lone holdout. It holds that stance despite the fact that the city stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds if a plan is not approved within the next month.</div>
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“I understand it’s a historic neighborhood, but people with disabilities deserve access like anyone else,” said Richardson, who is blind and hard of hearing. “It’s not right that some people there are putting aesthetics above safety and accessibility.”</div>
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When Mayor Martin J. Walsh learned of the vote, he was outraged.</div>
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“We’re not talking about ripping down the brownstones or tearing up the brick sidewalks,” Walsh said in a telephone interview. “We’re just trying to make the streets accessible. It’s disappointing. This should be automatic.”</div>
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He said he is considering his options and whether it is possible for the city to bypass the commission, which was established in 1955 by the Legislature to preserve the neighborhood’s historic integrity.</div>
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“I don’t intend on giving any neighborhood special treatment,” Walsh said. “Every other historic district has agreed to do this. These are small trade-offs to accommodate people with disabilities.”</div>
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Opponents of the compliance plan said they are willing to compromise if the city revises its proposal.</div>
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For example, they have suggested that the city use granite ramps, rather than concrete, and granite tactile strips, rather than a composite plastic. They would also prefer to see tactile strips in gray, rather than the yellow used elsewhere in Boston or the terra cotta shade that city officials had proposed as part of a compromise.</div>
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Steve Young, chairman of the board of the Beacon Hill Civic Association, said he was appalled by the city’s initial proposal to install the yellow tactile strips, which are designed to provide a marked color contrast to help the visually impaired recognize intersections.</div>
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“If you look up the hill with them, all you would see were yellow intersections,” he said. “That doesn’t meet the historic requirements.”</div>
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He said they went far beyond what was needed.</div>
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When the city proposed using terra cotta strips, which would blend in with the brick sidewalks, Young and others said they preferred gray.</div>
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“It has a less vivid appearance,” Young said of the gray strips, “and it has sufficient contrast to let visually impaired people know that there’s a change in the pavement.”</div>
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Mark Kiefer, a member of the Architectural Commission who voted to reject the city’s proposal, said he worried that the city was “trying to do this on the cheap.”</div>
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“The Architectural Commission has never recognized economic exemptions,” he said, noting that it has required residents to use traditional copper gutters rather than modern, less expensive aluminum ones; slate rather than asphalt shingles on refurbished roofs; and wooden windows rather than more affordable vinyl replacements.</div>
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“It’s a matter of the visual impact,” he said. “We don’t want prominent things people will see commonly to smack of modernity.”</div>
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Richardson and city officials said the terra cotta tactile strips provide less contrast than those in yellow — the international sign for caution — but agreed to use them as long as they are set on a gray ramp. Gray strips are a bad idea, they said.</div>
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“Gray just doesn’t offer enough contrast,” said Richardson, who oversees compliance with the Disabilities Act at the State House.</div>
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As for granite ramps, city officials said they would be too expensive to use on such a broad scale, where concrete pedestrian ramps already cost the city on average about $6,000 apiece. The granite would cost more than four times as much, they said, and it is prone to cracking.</div>
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Granite warning strips cost more than twice the $300 the city pays for composite plastic strips, which hold up well over time, city officials said.</div>
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“From a maintenance perspective, an installation perspective, and a cost perspective, granite is not a viable material,” said Katie Choe, chief engineer for the Department of Public Works.</div>
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Last week, city officials had planned to go back to the Architectural Commission for approval of the initial stage of the project, which would allow city workers to start installing ramps and tactile strips on Joy Street. But with warnings that the plan could be rejected without a public meeting to discuss the project, city officials pulled the proposal from the commission’s agenda.</div>
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Without approval for the plan by the end of March, the city risks losing $560,000 in federal grants as part of a $15 million so-called Tiger grant.</div>
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“I think it’s outrageous that after all the compromises from the other historic districts and disability advocates, that this one district could hold up this vital work,” said Kristen McCosh, commissioner of the Boston’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities. “It certainly goes against the city’s hard work and the mayor’s vision of universal access. If people can’t access the sidewalks, they’re not included in the life of the city.”</div>
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In the South End, Bay Village, and the Back Bay, the designated historic districts that agreed to a compromise with the city last year, residents also sought a host of changes to the city’s plans.</div>
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But under pressure from the city, they all eventually agreed to the installation of concrete ramps and warning strips the color of bricks.</div>
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Among those who negotiated for the South End was Stephen Fox, chairman of the Rutland Square Neighborhood Association, who said if the city accedes to the Beacon Hill historic district’s demands, the other neighborhoods will feel like they were treated unfairly and may hold out longer in future negotiations.</div>
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“I haven’t heard anyone complaining that they are anything like an egregious architectural pimple on the neighborhood,” he said. “They see them as practical and workable.”</div>
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Among those hoping the city gets to work soon on improving Beacon Hill’s byways and intersections is 73-year-old Howard Chadwick, who every few days uses a cane to make his way to a nearby drugstore.</div>
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He loves Beacon Hill and its distinct architecture, but after falling twice on the jagged bricks, he wants more done to make it easier to navigate. “The way it is now is not right,” said Chadwick, who owned an antique store in the neighborhood for decades. “There’s no excuse not to fix this.”</div>
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BEN KIRCHNER FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE</div>
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Then comes the nails, the gouging of my eyes, the scratching of my cheeks.</div>
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This is how my 2-year-old son, Wolfy, often greets me in the morning. I’ve had the bruises to show for his unbounded exuberance – a fat lip, a bloody scab on my ear, scratch marks on every part of my face.</div>
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After taking refuge behind a closed door in the bathroom, I am hurried out by my wife, Jess, who has to be at work early, leaving me alone with our little menace. I try to hold Wolfy back as he chases her out the door, grabbing him just as he looks ready for a swan dive down the stairs.</div>
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In tears, he begs me to take him to the window to watch mommy drive off. We wave, and he calms down. Then he asks to go potty, even though he has yet to be potty trained. It’s a promising sign. So I comply, well aware of the futility and that it will require another struggle to dress him again.</div>
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Wolfy sits on the toilet for a few moments, smirking, taunting me with his big, blue, deeply mischievous eyes. Nothing happens. Then he stands up on the seat and nearly falls in. When I try to brush his teeth, he tosses the toothbrush on the floor. Afterward, he climbs into the bathtub, turns the water on, and demands a bath.</div>
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When I finally pull him out — squirming and screaming — he starts running through our apartment, each footfall like an earthquake for our neighbors below, who hate us. Wolfy raises the volume by testing how loud his voice can carry, shrieking in octaves better left to dying animals.</div>
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‘He flashes his impish grin and scurries the other way. I plead with him. He smiles back, a dimpled, towheaded devil.’</div>
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I take a deep breath and try to remember that this is a stage — the Terrible Twos — when toddlers start to assert their independence, their tyrannical possessiveness, their freedom from any hint of parental reason.</div>
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After a spate of similar mornings, I call for help. Dr. Jennifer Shu, a pediatrician in Atlanta and medical editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Healthychildren.org, reminds me of the best (and maybe only) coping mechanism.</div>
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“Laugh at it, and embrace it,” she advises me. “One day you’ll look back on it all and have funny stories to tell.”</div>
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My son is acting normally, she promises, noting the madness can start as early as 18 months and last until 3 years old, longer than I had hoped to hear. “Almost every child goes through it,” she reassures me.</div>
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Parents have to try to understand their child’s psychology, how everything to a toddler is a game, she says. “The only problem is that as soon as you figure it out, everything changes,” she says.</div>
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Yippee.</div>
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She offers this consolation: “It gets better as their vocabulary improves. It’s just a phase.”</div>
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Wolfy’s vocabulary is expanding every day now, but on this particular morning, he is flaunting the one word he has clearly mastered: “Mine! Mine! Mine!”</div>
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He is referring to the spatula he somehow grabbed from the kitchen counter. He likes to use it to reach the light switches and turn them on and off. Or to pound the walls. There’s a brief struggle as I pull it out of his hand.</div>
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Then he asks for my iPhone, which he has become adept at snatching, like a frog snapping up a fly. Getting it back requires a deft strategy or forcefulness, especially when he’s scrolling through Elmo videos on YouTube. When I took back my phone the day before, I went to work with a bloodied lip.</div>
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Eventually, he gives up on the phone, toddles back into his room, climbs on the couch, and starts tossing all his carefully arranged stuffed animals on the floor. As I pick them up, he laughs, like he’s mocking me. Then he takes a seat in the buff, oddly peaceful for a moment, and flips through one of his books, which has every page torn out or shredded, the product of his destruction.</div>
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I notice his breakfast remains untouched, a smoothie my wife made that is some concoction of kale, broccoli, raspberries, and almond milk. He actually often drinks the stuff. When I hand him his sippy cup, he flings it on the floor and the top snaps off.</div>
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Another deep breath.</div>
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It’s getting late, and Wolfy remains completely naked. So I pick up one of his stuffed animals, which we call Wolfy’s wolf. I fitted it with a diaper, suggesting he let me dress him the same way.</div>
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“No, daddy! No, daddy!” he says, smiling. “I don’t like it!”</div>
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I rummage through his drawers for options.</div>
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“How about this sweatshirt, Wolfy?”</div>
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“Nooo.”</div>
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After a few minutes, I’ve rifled through his entire wardrobe. Nothing appeals to his unique sartorial tastes. (He recently insisted on wearing a red T-shirt over a red collared shirt.)</div>
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So I resort to a trick. I bring him a picture of his cousins and ask him to name each one. It eases him up, and then he raises his hands, allowing me to slip on a shirt, then a diaper, pants, and socks.</div>
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After a struggle to find his shoes — we have a lot of single shoes, as Wolfy often tends to kick them off in random places — we’re at last ready to leave.</div>
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But he wants to go out another door. I press him to follow me. He won’t. Then he insists on riding his toy firetruck to day care. As I walk out, hoping he’ll follow, he does. But he comes out speeding into the hall on his truck, veering straight for the staircase. With a quick lunge, I block him from a premature roller-coaster ride.</div>
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More deep breaths.</div>
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Wolfy agrees to step off the truck when I suggest he help me lock the door, brightening his eyes. Then he insists on walking down the stairs on his own, refusing to hold my hand.</div>
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It goes well, with him following me slowly down, until the turn on the next floor. I keep going and he turns around, climbing the steps in the opposite direction.</div>
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Holding his lunch, my workbag, and our recycling, I chase him up the stairs, scooping him up with my free arm. Again, he starts screaming.</div>
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When we finally make it outside, I set him down so I can dump the recycling. Immediately, he bolts — toward the street. I sprint after him and pick him up in a cradle. We head to my car. With a free pinky, I open the gate and nearly topple down a cement staircase as he struggles to free himself.</div>
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I begin to feel woozy, short of breath.</div>
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The final battle of the morning promises to be the biggest — getting him into his car seat. When I open the door, as usual, Wolfy refuses to take his seat, climbing over his bulky throne and plopping down on the opposite side. I walk around and open the other door. He flashes his impish grin and scurries the other way.</div>
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I plead with him. He smiles back, a dimpled, towheaded devil.</div>
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“I’m going to win, Wolfy,” I say. “I always do.”</div>
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He dares me with his eyes, and I pounce, snatching him up and muscling him into his seat, mustering all my strength to latch him in. Again, he screams, as if I’m tearing off his limbs.</div>
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The deed done, I collapse in the driver’s seat, clenching my eyes while I catch my breath. Work beckons like a vacation.</div>
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To calm him, I promise to play one of his favorite songs from a free children’s album we received. I’ve heard the song hundreds of times now and would rather listen to nails on a blackboard. But when the irritating refrain starts to play, he relaxes. He demands I replay it again and again, until we arrive at day care.</div>
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In the driveway, Wolfy now refuses to leave his chair. Then he kicks off his shoes.</div>
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“No, daddy.”</div>
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He shakes his head, a glimmer of a smile in his eyes.</div>
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“Don’t you want to see all your friends? Your teachers? You love them.”</div>
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“No, daddy.”</div>
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I pick up his shoes, grab his lunch, and pull him out of the car, carrying him on my shoulder.</div>
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With my long march to day care finally at hand, he seems to gloat as I carry him in, my little wolf living up to his name.</div>
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With him safely with his teachers, I walk out, exhale, and know my boy is as much like me when I was a kid as I could have ever feared.</div>
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My comeuppance, for sure.</div>
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KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE</div>
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