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Boston Globe special projects
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The Summer of Living Dangerously - 7/01-8/01 Eight writers with New England ties were commissioned by the Globe to craft a serial novella. One chapter appeared each Wednesday for two months. Each writer was free to take the story wherever imagination led. |
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Crimes of Punishment - 05/01 In this series, the Globe investigated patterns of misconduct at the Suffolk County jail, including a guard impregnating an inmate and rampant brutality. These events raised questions about Sheriff Richard J. Rouse's leadership abilities. |
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Luxury by design, quality by chance - 04/01 Contractors cutting corners, developers misleading customers -- the Globe's Spotlight Team uncovered scores of such problems in new suburban housing. It examined shoddy home construction in a four-part investigative series. |
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Stardust Memories - 03/01 The Old Time Dances held every other week in Locke Mills, Maine, have been going on only 18 years, but the memories reach back decades. The Globe's Bill Greene captures their spirit in a picture and sound essay. |
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Tribal Gamble - 12/00 In a four-part series, The Globe examines the lure and perils of Indian gaming, a $10 billion industry that often benefits outsiders more than the tribes themselves. |
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Death on Ward C - 10/00 In a two-part series, The Globe explores the case of 32-year-old nurse Kristen Gilbert, who stands accused of murdering four patients at a Northampton veterans hospital for thrills and attention. |
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Bridge decay - 06/00 One in seven bridges in Massachusetts is structurally deficient and in need of overhaul, according to a Globe analysis of recently compiled inspection data for every bridge in the state. |
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Everyday heroes - 6/00 Through text and photographs, The Globe's Stan Grossfeld tells the stories of five ordinary Bostonians doing extraordinary things. |
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Conduct unbecoming - 5/00 According to some Massachusetts police chiefs, the Civil Service Commission is dangerously undercutting efforts to take action against derelict cops. |
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Vietnam: Shadows of a distant war - 4/00 Twenty-five years after the US pullout from Vietnam, Globe writers reflect on their war experiences and return to the former battlefields of Southeast Asia. |
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Big Dig's insurance program unravels - 4/00 An investigation by the Globe Spotlight team reveals that the Big Dig's mammoth insurance program has been a bonanza for the chief insurer and a vehicle for secret side deals by the project's broker. |
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The Endless War - 02/00 Follow America's war on drugs from the coca fields of Colombia to streets of Boston to Washington's halls of power. |
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Dept. Under Fire - 01/00 Globe reporter David Armstrong investigated the Boston Fire Department in his series and uncovered numerous problems necessary ranging from racial division on the force to costly and dangerous personnel practices. |
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Choosing Naia - 12/99 Choosing Naia is the product of 16 months of work by Globe staff writer Mitch Zuckoff and Globe staff photographer Suzanne Kreiter. It focuses on the life choices of a couple who learn their unborn child has Down syndrome and a heart defect. |
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Environmental Injustice - 11/99 Even as the EPA pursues private polluters, certain US agencies preside over some of the deadliest waste sites in this country and abroad -- and there is little that can be done to stop them. This four-part series was written by Globe staff writer David Armstrong, with pictures by staff photographer Tom Herde. |
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AIDS and the African - 10/99 Stunned by the soaring number of AIDS deaths in Africa, where more than 12 million lives have already been lost, American black leaders are scrambling to call attention to the crisis, and concluding that they themselves must exercise more vigor and ingenuity in confronting the epidemic. Written by Globe reporter Wil Haygood and correspondent Kurt Shillinger, with photos by staff photographer Dominic Chavez. |
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Africa's Forgotten War - 08/99 This two-part series written by Globe reporter John Donnelly focuses on the long-standing conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia that, sadly, symbolizes the state of Africa at the end of the millennium. Also featured is the photography of Globe staffer Dominic Chavez. |
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A black writer's journey into poor white America - 07/99 Boston Globe reporter Wil Haygood, accompanied by photographer Lane Turner, traveled to some of the poorest and whitest towns in the country to talk to people about race and racism - face to face. This is what he found. |
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The Search for Andy - 07/99 His eyes stare out from the faded photo, a sweet smile lighting his face. He disappeared nearly 23 years ago, but the search for Andy Puglisi has never really ended. A childhood playmate, haunted by the loss of her friend, began her own search for him last year for a documentary film. Written by Globe reporter Judith Gaines, this is the story of the search for Andy. |
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