Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Kathryn Miles August 24, 2016 ON OCTOBER 14, 2015, a forester from a private company began an inventory of trees on land used by the Navy’s remote SERE survival school in Redington Township, Maine. Starting at a point that had been randomly generated by computer, he walked a straight line, pausing periodically to count trees. At his third stop, on a narrow knoll about 100 yards inside the Navy property, he stumbled upon an old campsite: a collapsed tent, a green backpack. Not far away, he saw what looked like human remains swaddled in a sky-blue sleeping bag. The forester called his headquarters, which phoned the Navy, which alerted Maine law enforcement. The next morning, Lieutenant Kevin Adam, the search-and-rescue coordinator for the Maine Warden Service, walked into the lobby of the Comfort Inn in Wilton. It was not yet 6 a.m., and sunrise was still an hour … [Read more...] about ‘When you find my body’: The last days of hiker Gerry Largay
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Hunger in Philadelphia: ‘It’s a pain in my belly’
Published 12:05 am, Saturday, May 26, 2018 Photo: David Maialetti, AP Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 A'lah Bey carries out her food boxes from the Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia on May 4, 2018. Throughout the nation, about 12 percent of people are food insecure — lacking enough food in a year to lead a healthy life, according to data from Feeding America in Chicago, the largest hunger-relief nonprofit in the country. In Philadelphia, it's 21 percent. In North Philadelphia, food insecurity runs as high as 30 percent. (David Maialetti /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) less A'lah Bey carries out her food boxes from the Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia on May 4, 2018. Throughout the nation, about 12 percent of people are food ... more … [Read more...] about Hunger in Philadelphia: ‘It’s a pain in my belly’
Read the text messages at the heart of the Michelle Carter trial
Michelle Carter, the young Plainville woman who sent her boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were both teenagers, was sentenced to 15 months in prison Thursday. Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence in June. Moniz said she caused the death of Conrad Roy III, who intentionally filled his truck with carbon monoxide in a store parking lot in July 2014. Their text messages in the week before Roy’s suicide were released in court documents following Carter’s indictment. Carter’s lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, told The Boston Globe in 2015 that the teenager had previously tried to help her boyfriend seek treatment, but ultimately gave in and backed his suicide plan. Cataldo, who is appealing the conviction, has also argued that the messages are protected by the First Amendment. Unlike 40 other states, Massachusetts does not have a law criminalizing assisted suicide. But … [Read more...] about Read the text messages at the heart of the Michelle Carter trial
How Shalane Flanagan went from almost retiring to being a top contender in the 2018 Boston Marathon
Shalane Flanagan says she felt “hungover” after her historic New York City Marathon finish in November. “I was in a state of such overwhelming happiness, a state of bliss,” she told Boston.com. “It felt better than I ever dreamed it would feel. But when I came down a little bit a week later, my head hurt and my teeth hurt from constant smiling. I just had never experienced such elation to that degree and for that long, so when I finally came back to a little bit of normalcy, I felt like I had been raging.” Not only was Flanagan’s victory her first world marathon major win, but it also was the first time an American woman had won the race in 40 years. The 36-year-old crossed the finish line with a time of 2:26:53 — just 5 minutes and 39 seconds shy of the personal record she had set at the 2014 Berlin Marathon. Once her “happiness hangover” subsided, Flanagan — who missed the 2017 Boston Marathon due to a lower back … [Read more...] about How Shalane Flanagan went from almost retiring to being a top contender in the 2018 Boston Marathon
How to Collaborate When You Don’t Have Consensus
Note: Parts of this column are excerpted from Adam Kahane’s books, including Collaborating with the Enemy and Solving Tough Problems. On a rainy afternoon in 2016, I was leading a workshop to advance local development in Colombia; the meeting was one result of new peace accords that had ended 52 years of civil war. The atmosphere was tense and alert, as you might expect when leaders who bitterly opposed one another have gathered to work on their most crucial and difficult mutual problems. They were there because they knew that if they didn’t find a way to work together, the reconciliation and growth the country desperately needed might never take place. “Haven’t I seen you somewhere?” a former guerrilla commander asked a woman sitting near me. “Yes,” she said. “I gave you money to ransom my kidnapped daughter.” Most business confrontations aren’t this dramatic. But lessons from extreme cases can be useful in more ordinary … [Read more...] about How to Collaborate When You Don’t Have Consensus