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Zippy Chippy is a star in retirement

...volunteers including veterinarians, Blowen said. The farm is home to 46 horses.Blowen, a retired movie critic for The Boston Globe, said Zippy's life script resonates with people."I think more people can identify with a horse that loses all...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2012-07-24/zippy-chippy-star-retirement
Red Sox starter John Lackey to have Tommy John surgery

...a right-hander, was 12-12 with a 6.41 ERA in the second year of a five-year, $82.5 million contract. The Boston Globe reported after the season that he and fellow starters Josh Beckett and Jon Lester, who is a former Augusta GreenJacket...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/baseball/2011-10-25/red-sox-starter-john-lac
Romney raps Obama in SC

...Huntsman, who bypassed Iowa to bet his campaign on a good finish in New Hampshire, was showing off an endorsement by The Boston Globe, Romney's hometown paper. It was the second time Massachusetts' largest newspaper had snubbed Romney ahead of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-01-06/romney-raps-obama-sc
Hard-hitting ex-Raider Jack Tatum dead at 61

...can't, as a human being, feel happy about something like that happening to another human being," Stingley told The Boston Globe.Tatum began a charitable group to help kids with diabetes and helped raise more than $1.4 million to fight the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nfl/2010-07-27/hard-hitting-ex-raider-jack-t
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Biz briefs

DETROIT --- About 7,500 General Motors Corp. workers -- roughly 12 percent of the automaker's U.S. hourly work force -- have signed up to take buyouts and early retirement incentives, GM said Thursday.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/27/bus_516063.shtml
Business
Decline in newspapers renews idea of nonprofits

...or casual journalist can match. But because of cost pressures, many newspapers including The Sun of Baltimore, the Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer have closed their foreign bureaus. Newspapers also have been able to devote fewer resources...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/01/bus_512992.shtml
Business
Veteran quarterback, Titans come to terms

...said to be in Kansas City amid reports that the New England Patriots had traded the 12-year veteran to the Chiefs. The Boston Globe said Vrabel confirmed by e-mail that he had been traded to the Chiefs. SIGNINGS: Running back Fred Taylor signed...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/02/28/pro_513047.shtml
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Odd Stories

...he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor. The Boston Globe reports that a state trooper pulled over John Davis and his wife Jennifer for using the breakdown lane on Nov. 18...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/12/07/ent_503032.shtml
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A heartwarming comeback

...so compelling, so powerful, it restores all faith in the ability of people to turn their lives around," wrote the Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo. Makes you realize that it wasn't Hamilton's power on display Monday night so much as God's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/07/16/edi_465845.shtml
Editorials
Lawyer: Pats' starter worked as informant

...agent wrote. Ekasala's lawyer, Bernard Grossberg , said Kaczur was that cooperating witness. Kaczur denied to The Boston Globe that he participated in the investigation, telling the newspaper, "I don't know what you're talking about...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/06/05/pro_461091.shtml
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