A top-flight pilot whose dashed dreams of reaching space are now being dramatized on the Old Globe Theatre’s stage has died at age 88.Jerrie Cobb, the central subject of the Globe play “They Promised Her the Moon,” died March 18 in Florida, according to the Associated Press and other sources.Cobb, who began flying at age 12, had set several aviation records and received numerous honors when she was recruited in 1960 to be part of the “Mercury 13,” the informal name for a privately funded testing/training program meant to advance the idea of sending women into space. (The name was a play on the official Mercury 7 program that eventually sent the first American, Alan Shepard, into orbit.)As documented in Laurel Ollstein’s “They Promised Her the Moon,” Cobb surpassed all others tested (including the men) in most parts of the extraordinarily difficult program. But she and her colleagues in the Mercury 13 were denied a chance to become … [Read more...] about Jerrie Cobb, pioneering aviator and subject of now-running Old Globe play, has died at 88
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Updated 8:40 pm CDT, Thursday, April 11, 2019 Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday, April 11, 2019 for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum .(Victoria Jones/PA via AP) less Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, ... more Photo: Victoria Jones, AP Photo: Victoria Jones, AP Image 1 of / 27 Caption Close … [Read more...] about The Latest: Ecuador arrests Swedish software developer
Two men dished up meals in D.C. this week. One fed furloughed workers. The other is the president
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Nestor Ramos Globe staff January 16, 2019 Let them eat berders. The fast food feast that our caterer-in-chief procured for Clemson’s national championship football team was, to hear him tell it, a stunning act of generosity. With White House staff on furlough because of his shutdown, President Donald Trump went into his own pocket to present the team with rapidly cooling junk food served on silver platters. How do we know that? Well, the president himself took to Twitter to misspell the word “hamburger” and announce, oh-so-magnanimously: “(I paid)”. Advertisement Meanwhile, in the same city, someone else was preparing to feed the government workers whose hardship was at the root of the president’s greasy McStunt. Get Metro Headlines in your inbox: The 10 top local news stories from metro Boston and around New England … [Read more...] about Two men dished up meals in D.C. this week. One fed furloughed workers. The other is the president
Two men dished up meals in D.C. this week. One dedicated his time to feeding furloughed workers. The other is the President
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Nestor Ramos Globe staff January 16, 2019 Let them eat berders. The fast food feast that our caterer-in-chief procured for Clemson’s national championship football team was, to hear him tell it, a stunning act of generosity. With White House staff on furlough due to his shutdown, President Donald Trump went into his own pocket to present the team with rapidly cooling junk food served on silver platters. How do we know that? Well, the president himself took to Twitter to misspell the word “hamburger” and announce, oh-so-magnanimously: “(I paid)”. Advertisement Meanwhile, in the same city, someone else was preparing to feed the government workers whose hardship was at the root of the president’s greasy McStunt. Get Metro Headlines in your inbox: The 10 top local news stories from metro Boston and around New England … [Read more...] about Two men dished up meals in D.C. this week. One dedicated his time to feeding furloughed workers. The other is the President
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FILE – In this July 4, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in North Korea’s northwest. North Korea on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, says it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States removes its nuclear threat first. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File) Coastal areas in New England are bracing for the high tide that is scheduled to be at it’s highest as seen in Scituate, Massachusetts before receding to lower tide until night fall on March 2, 2018. High winds, rain and flooding is taking place in Scituate and the surrounding coastal areas of Massachusetts as a storm known as a ‘bomb cyclone’ makes it way past the East Coast. (Ryan McBride/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) In this image courtesy of Dr. Holy A. Bell, … [Read more...] about 50 things we know now at the end of 2018 …