Lost and Found: World War II Shipmates Reconnect in Chance Internet
Encounter

After 62 years of being out of each other's lives, World War
II shipmates and old friends Ray Ellis and Bill Sprague reconnected to
find that despite the many years gone by, their friendship was still
intact.

Interviews by Kate Brannen

Ray Ellis: "The name of the ship was the USS Corpus Christie.
It was a frigate. They built 55 frigates and had them all manned by the
U.S. Coast Guard. I was the chief quartermaster on board.

Not Too Many Fish in the Sea to Count

By KATE BRANNEN

The Vineyard Conservation Society met Thursday for its annual
meeting and to hear about the Marine Life Census, an ambitious and
inspiring global project that is attempting to catalogue and identify
every life form in the planet's oceans.

The census puts Vineyard conservation efforts into a global context
where scientists around the world are racing to protect marine life.

In the two years before Vineyard House opened, there were two dozen
alcohol and drug-related deaths on the Island. The founders of the
nonprofit sober house never did a formal needs survey - the need
seemed clear enough. There was a cavernous gap in health services
between the hospital's three-day detox and the return to everyday
life.

Barbara Dacey is relieved.

A temporary eleventh-hour agreement last weekend between radio
webcasters and a record industry royalty collection organization ensures
that Internet-based streaming radio stations will operate under existing
royalty fees. Meanwhile, negotiation continues between webcasters and
Sound Exchange, which collects royalties for the Recording Industry
Association of America.

Boatline Labor Contract Collapses Unexpectedly; Union Infighting Is
Cited

By MIKE SECCOMBE

Just as it appeared that four years of difficult negotiations had
finally produced a new workplace agreement between the Steamship
Authority and one of its major unions, the deal fell apart this week,
apparently as a result of a leadership contest within the union.

The White House, the American Civil Liberties Union, that
"idiot" the British Prime Minister, the United Nations, the
FBI, CIA, State Department, New York Times, Washington Post, National
Public Radio, CNN, and the Internal Revenue Service.

It's not often you hear them - and a lot of other
governments and organizations as well - lumped together as part of
the same problem.

For the past few years, talk of the planet's imminent demise
due to climate change and rising ocean levels has permeated the media to
the point where the notion is firmly in the collective consciousness of
the nation and the world.

But while documentaries on global warming have won awards and
politicians debate ways to regulate carbon emissions, there has been a
noticeable lack of progress to actually address the problem.

Lady Bird Johnson, the gracious widow of former President Lyndon
Baines Johnson, who was credited for her steadying influence on his
volatile personality, died Wednesday at her home in Austin, Tex., of
natural causes. She was 94.

Early Days of Apartheid Shaped Belief System for Chief Justice

By IAN FEIN

She first came to the United States as a high school exchange
student from apartheid-era South Africa in 1962, near the height of the
civil rights movement.

At a young age, Margaret H. Marshall, who is today the chief justice
of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, witnessed marches in the
street, listened to debates in Congress, and - in her words
– saw democracy working before her eyes.

Are you the harbor master?

That's usually the first question from boaters who have an
inquiry or request when they visit, call or hail the harbor master
station on the VHF radio. It might be a polite matter of course, but it
may also be a subtle response to the young face - or voice -
that answers back.

In a casual survey of the Island's four harbors this week,
there was no one over the age of 23 holding down the fort. The average
age was 19 and a half