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12.17.2000
Jamaicans in
America
In the spring, thousands of Jamaicans leave their families to work
in America. They come to hotels and restaurants in Rhode Island and around
the country to work as housekeepers, dishwashers, landscapers and janitors
— jobs which often pay twice what they earn back home. This past spring,
14 Jamaicans journeyed to the Spring House on Block Island.
10.15.2000
Rescuing the right
Follow the journey of Providence Journal staffers Peter Lord and
Andrew Dickerman as they tracked attempts to rescue the endangered right
whale off the coast of Nova Scotia this past June and July, through this
multimedia telling of their experiences.
9.17.2000
Upstream fight
Two years ago the Blackstone was recognized as an American Heritage
River, honored as one of the 14 greatest rivers in the nation. Two hundred
yards upstream from the falls, the logic behind that honor might be hard
to discern.
9.3.2000
Digging for
roots
From Chepachet to New Zealand, genealogists are increasingly accessing
information through massive Internet-based databases. And new genealogy
software has helped reduce traditional historical documents to computer
compact discs.
8.20.2000
Policing Rhode Island
Putting more officers on the streets may not be the answer to reducing
crime, according to an analysis of each city and town's police, population
and crime statistics.
8.13.2000
Near-Miss at T.F. Green
An NTSB recreation reveals the confusion in a jetliner's cockpit and
in the control tower at T.F. Green Airport that jeopardized the lives
of hundreds of passengers.
8.7.2000
Festival shootings
Providence Journal photographer Rachel Ritchie captures a gunman on
film. See a gallery of pictures and hear Ritchie describe the scene.
7.23.2000
Tourism
beat: The Breakers
Endless stream of tourists puts Newport mansion guides to the test.
Read the story, learn the script, take the test and listen to the guides
talk about their working lives.
7.15.2000
John O. Pastore, 1903-2000
Remembering the former R.I. governor and U.S. senator
7.2.2000
A Nearly Perfect Summer
Staff Writer G.Wayne Miller spent the summer of 1999 visiting the
shuttered world of Newport society. He reports on his travels in a six-part
serial narrative with photographs by Journal Photographer Connie Grosch.
6.18.2000
Os Deportados
Mary Tavares, who came to Fall River, Mass., as a child, married
well, then slipped into drug abuse and prostitution, is arrested on a
charge of assault and sentenced to a year in prison. Because she is not
a U.S. citizen, upon completion of her sentence, she is banished to the
Azores, where she was born. This is her story — and that of her fellow
deportees.
1.30.2000
The shooting death of Cornel Young
Jr.
Follow the ongoing coverage of this tragedy, from the actual incident
to the follow-up investigation, court cases and community fallout.
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