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Boston will receive next year more than $100 million from the federal government to begin cleaning the Boston harbor, which many environmentalists consider to be one of the nation's most polluted bays...
Associate Editor Tom Callahan, who wrote this week's cover story on Skipper Dennis Conner, faced his own logistical complications. After a 14-hour flight from Los Angeles, Callahan arrived in Sydney and immediately caught a plane to Perth. From there he headed directly to Fremantle harbor for a training session aboard Stars & Stripes. That experience may sound almost as turbulent as a go-around in the washing machine, but it left Callahan feeling exhilarated. "Conner is so at one with his crew, he barely has to give orders. It's really stirring to be on board with the greatest...
...similar fashion, James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation is providing funding to almost 70 nonprofit housing groups around the country. Rouse, known nationally for his role in revitalizing downtown Boston and the Baltimore Harbor, envisions a national network of neighborhood housing initiatives supported by entities like Enterprise but also backed by federal funding. "The initiative would come from us, but the Government would make available the funds that are so desperately needed," says Rouse. Groups like Enterprise particularly want Congress to approve a $150 million second- mortgage fund similar to the one used in the Nehemiah program...
Police reported that four divers searched most of the day for Professor of Education and Social Psychology Lawrence Kohlberg, whose car, wallet, and top coat were found January 21 on a street beside Boston Harbor. There have been no other developments in the search for the professor, said Lt. Angelo LaMonica of the Winthrop Police Department...
...chances of finding him in the harbor could be slim," LaMonica said. "But assuming that he is there, it is certainly worth a try. It's not rare to find bodies since they sometimes just lie at the bottom for a long time...