[0:00:47] ... The action upset investors looking for signs of recovery and sent the Dow Jones average tumbling more than 250 points. Critics called -- the most direct government intervention in the economy since the Great Depression. Alleging ...
[0:04:18] ... Told the globe. The owners are essentially saying look we're not against going green where against going broke. In response city officials said Boston has already shown sensitivity agent camp drivers. Letting them increased fares last ...
[0:06:34] ... prayers. On the sports pages a favorable report from spring training. Where Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Red Sox five strong innings against the Atlanta Braves. Boston didn't win the game but then it is spring training and the sunlight shining. The sun also -- in Boston today. ...
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[0:00:18] ... on Monday march 30. Just months before the start of last year's stock market collapse. The federal agency that insures the retirement funds a 44 million Americans. Departed from its conservative investment strategy. The pension benefit ...
[0:01:18] ... of the fiscal year. But that was before most of the recent stock market decline and just before the investments which was scheduled to begin in earnest. No figures on the subsequent performance fund were released. Analyst expressed concern that large portions of the trust fund. May have been lost at a time when many private pension plans are suffering major losses. They guarantee fund within be the only way to -- the plants if their companies go into bankruptcy. Peter Orszag. Head of the white house Office of Management and Budget. Has serious concerns about the agency according to an Obama administration spokesman. Last year as director of ...
[0:03:09] ... been involved in a hospital organizing effort which is focusing first on Beth Israel deaconess Medical Center. Mike -- Dell executive vice president of local 1199. Said the law would be needed if there wasn't a problem. That this ...
[0:04:14] ... of ship hijacking is posing a growing threat to global trade. The Massachusetts Maritime Academy is expanding its security training to deter crime on the high seas. The globe's Peter swarm writes that the foreign based 1000 ...
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[0:00:35] ... Los Angeles county DA's office. Apparently plans to present evidence to a grand jury about the 1985. Disappearance of John and Linda so must. Who are believed to have rented their guest house to Rockefeller. And you may have been slain. -- handwriting experts have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury. Possibly did testify about a postcard sent from Europe after the couple vanished and purportedly from Linda so -- Rockefeller a German ...
[0:02:30] ... are under no legal obligation to rebuild the flax -- torn down. Mayor Tom Menino who denies any role in accelerating permitting for the project but did receive hundreds of dollars in political contributions from the developers. ...
[0:05:15] ... to leave jobs in order to care for disabled child at home. March Madness is coming tonight to Boston. Where some of the most closely watched and fiercely fought games of the NCAA men's tournament will ...
[0:06:41] ... Celtics pumped up for our robust fourth quarter but could outplay the Orlando Magic in Florida last night. Losing eighty Ford 82. And dropping to third in the Eastern Conference. We're expecting clouds to move in ...
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[0:02:23] ... unnecessary. Because there are already fines for possession of the drug. The stock market decline has already ravaged your 401K. Plan now it could hurt your pension to. John Wallach of the globe business staff reports ...
[0:05:31] ... see -- in the way he lost interest in his studies in high school and in the way he struggled to find himself. Recently he quit his job as a security guard. The man didn't only take one life he took to set amount. But for a month the prospect of stirring up painful memories is less dreadful than never getting closure. He should be -- relief he said if justice is served. Inside today's globe the Boston area's housing market is showing new life. With more people putting homes up for sale and lower mortgage rates prompting more offers. The sports pages looking ahead to this weekend's mad march to the final four and college basketball. But there's ...
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[0:01:21] ... corridor. Eight billion dollars for homeland -- station programs that disproportionately benefit cold weather areas. And a provision allowing millions of dollars in economic development bonds to be used for Biotech industries many of which are in the northeast. In addition president Obama's budget proposal includes one point two billion dollars more than bush requested. To help lower income people -- heating oil. The program which is of intense interest in the northeast and other cold weather areas was a frequent target for Republican -- The number of Massachusetts families seeking free and reduced price meals for school children is rising as economic hardships extend. To school lunch Koreans school officials in Boston Newton. Framingham Needham and Malden. Has reported increases in children receiving some type of help for paying for lunch since the beginning of the ...
[0:03:31] ... alcohol abuse and alcoholism. There are about eight million alcoholics in the United States. Yet only a few thousand are using -- trawl. Nearly three years after the drug went on the market a major challenge ...
[0:05:42] ... battling. Other legendary -- have included a singer who accompanied Stevie Wonder tunes blaring from a beat box at the Harvard Square red line station. And it guitarists who scratched out solos to canned ...
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[0:00:24] ... Under plan Governor Deval Patrick will announce today in Framingham. The gloves -- adviser reports. ...
[0:00:38] ... has the power to allocate the federal stimulus money but because state education funding involve complicated formulas. ...
[0:01:24] ... over the next 27 months. Today's proposal not address additional funding for higher education. Education funding is only one component of the budget debate simmering on Beacon Hill. House and senate lawmakers of said the budget pictures much ...
[0:06:02] ... Its forces Celtics beat the Miami Heat went twelve to one -- an overtime. Giving Boston a much needed win after dropping two straight on the road. That's a ...
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[0:00:50] ... Reports -- business reporter Beth Healy. Five months later and after billions of government dollars who spent to shore up ailing banks. ...
[0:02:33] ... is considering running for governor next year either as a challenger to Deval Patrick or as an unaffiliated candidate in the general election. Governor Deval Patrick is expected to announce a proposal today that would reduce the plan 1500 dollar fee hike at the University of Massachusetts. Patrick is expected to reveal plan to distribute. 162. Million dollars in federal stimulus money among the State's public colleges and universities. To administration officials said. The measure would provide partial relief for middle class families and working students at a time win. Because of the national ...
[0:04:14] ... of the globe staff. Scholars say that 40% of priests in the United States serve more than one parish. But that's phenomenon has thus far been rare in the urban northeast. Where the high Catholic population ...
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[0:00:30] ... review of training procedures. Globe reporter Donovan slack writes that the Boston fire department. Provides about twelve hours of driver training over two days compared with courses of one to two weeks in cities such as ...
[0:04:56] ... help the rest of us do the right thing. As layoffs and early retirements -- Boston's TV newsrooms. -- traditional anchor man is becoming a minority. And newscasts are getting female makeovers. Glow brighter Johnny Diaz ...
[0:06:35] ... a team speculated on the possible return this weekend of lying injured Kevin Garnett. We'll seek clouds move in as today goes forward but it should be even warmer than yesterday with highs in the high ...
[0:07:27] ... Yeah that's a summary of today's top stories from the Boston Globe for a closer look -- today's paper or go to boston.com. Slash globe. ...
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[0:04:29] ... this fall in some schools and next year in the rest. State health officials have taken their model child wait monitoring program that's shown success in Arkansas since it was launched six years ago. But doctors ...
[0:05:47] ... abetting -- company said. Are popular and legal in Puerto Rico. The Dominican Republic and Mexico. But Connecticut officials point out that to judge from new arrests that cock fights are drying many spectators from out ...
[0:06:25] ... of violence that claimed eighteen lives around the country. In sports the March Madness brackets are published today and there's something for everyone if you like college basketball. Boston College starts its perennial quest for the match up this weekend against southern cal in Minneapolis. It will be noticeably cooler today than yesterday but dry and still partly sunny. And tomorrow we're supposed to go back up into the fifties all the better for Saint Patrick's Day. Thanks for stopping by ...
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[0:00:34] ... for masterminding the biggest fraud in history of Wall Street. Reporting from New York City. That Healy of the globe staff and correspondent -- Mandela. Right that US district judge Denny -- provoked main -- bail and ...
[0:04:02] ... stress disorder. But doctor Michael gruden of the Boston university school of public health. Who is treated Tibetans for fifteen years. Knew better than to limited itself to western concepts. He added a Tibetan diagnosis. And added eastern treatments to the western anti depressants keep prescribed. This west treats east prescription worked for Tonkin. Who said the treatment has helped him feel better and meditate better. Globe reporter Carey Goldberg writes that in a paper published today in the journal mental health religion and culture. Gruden and his colleagues at Boston medical centers refugee health center. Describe the east west treatment he tailored for ...
[0:05:26] ... field called cross cultural psychiatry. Which aims to offer more culturally sensitive mental health care to immigrant groups. His mix treatment is also an example of integrative medicine. The combining of mainstream health care with alternative or ...
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