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Random: Plugging Leaks
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What 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. With gizmos and grit, technicians detect leaks, protect labyrinth of water pipes under Boston. December 20, 2008. Over the past decade, as erosion and widespread construction have weak...
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Kosovo War Stories: Risking the Gunships
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For 78 days in the spring of 1999, some 1,000 NATO aircraft flew more than 38,000 sorties in an effort to force Serbian forces out of Kosovo. I covered the war from Washington and Macedonia, writing about the first Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a non-U.S. ship, the flood of refugees to flee Kosovo, military plans to launch helicopter gunships, etc. Gunships poised for battle, but risks may keep them grounded. By David Abel The Boston Globe 5/22/1999. The reason: The copters, which cost $14 million ...
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Academia stories: The Nonbelievers
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For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. In his position, which is endowed, he has helped marry and bury fellow atheists. He has presided over baby-naming ceremonies and organ...
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Photographs: My Photo Ops
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With mainly point and shoot cameras, I have shot deserts and jungles, mountains and salt flats, underwater and in the air. My subjects include blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos, the red dunes of Western Namibia, and children at play and adults at work from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and beyond. JESSEY DEARING FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE. While reporting on the inside of the Massachusetts prison system, Globe reporter David Abel tastes the "seafood surprise" at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole.
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Profiles of the Homeless: Panhandling on Craigslist
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Profiles of the Homeless. Why would a former elementary school teacher forsake shelter to sleep outside in a blizzard? How could someone leave prison without anywhere better to sleep than beside his mother's grave? How could a man go from Harvard to living on a park bench? I spent a year covering homelessness, trying to answer such questions. These are the stories of people I met. Panhandlers move from street to Internet. October 26, 2009. I've always looked on Craigslist for odd jobs, so the idea to pos...
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Military stories: Preparing for Casualties
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For a year, I lived in Washington and wrote about the military, covering exercises aboard aircraft carriers, the controversy surrounding the Navy's testing range just off Puerto Rico, and arcane issues including problems with submarine warfare and missile defense, the nation's war strategy, and everything from pork in the defense budget to fraud by contractors. Bringing Good Medicine to Bad Places'. By David Abel Globe Staff 10/23/2001. As military planners prepare for the first large-scale US ground com...
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Cuba stories: A Cheap Thrill
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Before being deported during the first legal celebration of Christmas Eve, and despite harassment by Cuban officials, I spent several months in 1998 writing about the regime’s flirtation with capitalism, budding dissident movements and the limits of free expression, and the many ironies 40 years after the revolution, including the regime promoting golf and welcoming U.S. tourists. A Sweet Promise Communism Fulfilled. By David Abel Newsday 7/12/1998. So the revolutionaries knocked down an old hospital on ...
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Photographs: Wildlife
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With mainly point and shoot cameras, I have shot deserts and jungles, mountains and salt flats, underwater and in the air. My subjects include blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos, the red dunes of Western Namibia, and children at play and adults at work from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and beyond. Posted by David Abel. Click on photo for my bio. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Cuba stories: A Cuba of Contradictions
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Before being deported during the first legal celebration of Christmas Eve, and despite harassment by Cuban officials, I spent several months in 1998 writing about the regime’s flirtation with capitalism, budding dissident movements and the limits of free expression, and the many ironies 40 years after the revolution, including the regime promoting golf and welcoming U.S. tourists. A Cuba of Contradictions. By David Abel The Ottawa Citizen 12/13/1998. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba. When the guerrilla warriors' t...
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Academia stories: A Professor Disappears
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For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. By David Abel and Ralph Ranalli Globe Staff 12/02/2001. The group of eminent scientists had retired. Instead, the lanky 57-year-old profes...
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