Sun Jan 1, 2012 12:06 PM EST
In an industry where agreement comes slowly, the sudden prospect of huge fishing cuts to protect New England's codfish inspired a quick consensus: Scores of fishermen will be ruined if those cuts are passed.
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Sat Dec 3, 2011 11:36 AM EST
Carlos Rafael, who owns a fleet of boats that trawl New England waters for scallops and fish, offers a terse assessment of how Barney Frank's coming retirement will hit local fishermen.
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:09 PM EST
It's the eighth autumn since Roman Catholic parishioners began occupying St. Frances X. Cabrini church around the clock to protest the Boston Archdiocese's 2004 decision to close it. But this season could have passed without heat to kill the chill.
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Wed Nov 9, 2011 3:34 PM EST
Nearly a decade and hundreds of miles separate Penn State from the clergy sex abuse scandal that erupted in Boston's Roman Catholic archdiocese then spread nationwide, but those who lived through the church crisis see painful parallels.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011 5:15 PM EDT
Thomas McNeeley Jr., a boxer who battled heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and raised a son who took on Mike Tyson, has died of complications from a seizure. He was 74.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:43 AM EDT
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the Federal Aviation Administration's ruling that Cape Wind's turbines present no danger for local air traffic.
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:10 PM EDT
Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy.
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Sat Oct 8, 2011 12:59 PM EDT
Since the 18th century, Christ Church Cambridge has survived more than just the rattling, pounding and drenching of New England weather.
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:38 PM EDT
Model airplanes are suddenly on the public's radar as potential terrorist weapons.
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Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:25 PM EDT
The nation's first offshore wind farm enjoys high-profile federal and state backing, but it hasn't been able to win over one important party: the second-largest utility in Massachusetts.
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Sun Sep 4, 2011 12:29 PM EDT
On a speck of island across Chatham Harbor, a weathered doorway opens to a cottage where beach towels substitute for couch covers and an old-fashioned hand pump counts as a kitchen faucet — with no option for "hot."
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:03 PM EDT
Cardinal Sean O'Malley on Thursday released a long-awaited list of priests accused of child sex abuse in Boston in the last 60 years, but he opted not to include certain priests, including ones who died without being publicly charged.
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Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:24 PM EDT
Swaying underwater meadows of eelgrass once lined the New England shoreline, filtering the water, buffering storm surges and providing a nursery for a mix of commercially valuable sea life.
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:29 PM EDT
A watchdog group frustrated that Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley hasn't released a promised list of suspected pedophile priests disclosed the names Thursday of nine previously unnamed suspected abusers.
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Sat Jul 9, 2011 12:53 PM EDT
Rulemakers who protect the fish off New England's crooked coastline are considering ways to make sure the small-boat fishermen who chase those fish don't vanish in the meantime.
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Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:09 PM EDT
A gray muck swallows their boots as they dig into it, snatch clams from between cracked shells and sea worms, then crouch low to do it again. It's unforgiving, often dreary work, and all these Boston-area clammers want is the chance to keep at it.
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Sun May 29, 2011 12:21 PM EDT
The world's strongest winds race high in the sky, but that doesn't mean they're out of reach as a potentially potent energy source.
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Wed May 25, 2011 12:01 AM EDT
After setting a soaring vision to land a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy struggled with how to sell the public on a costly space program he worried had "lost its glamour" and had scant political benefits, according to a newly released White House tape.
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Mon May 23, 2011 5:21 AM EDT
Turning 40 seems like a breeze for Smoke the seal.
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Tue May 17, 2011 2:02 PM EDT
The U.S. Commerce Secretary on Tuesday ordered $650,000 in unjust fines returned to Northeast fishermen, while the nation's oceans chief apologized to the group and said restoring the money marks a turning point in their tense relationship.
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Fri May 13, 2011 5:11 PM EDT
Cape Wind's attempt to win a Department of Energy loan guarantee has been placed "on hold" in a setback to efforts by the nation's first offshore wind farm to secure financing.
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Fri May 13, 2011 6:06 AM EDT
An outspoken advocate for an Army private accused of funneling classified documents to Wikileaks filed suit Friday, claiming federal agents illegally seized confidential information from him at a Chicago airport.
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:47 AM EDT
It's been 16 years since Robert MacNeil sat behind an anchor's desk and a decade since half of PBS's famous MacNeil/Lehrer news team did any street reporting.
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Fri Apr 1, 2011 2:13 PM EDT
Six Israeli lawmakers are headed to the United States this weekend for an intense study of American Jewish life amid concerns about a growing gap between American and Israeli Jews.
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Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:24 AM EDT
State lawmakers gave every Massachusetts utility the same order in 2008: go buy more power from renewable energy sources.
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