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| Discover 2007
Description: Check out Discover, your guide to making the most of living in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Discover 2007 includes dining and entertainment options; listings of festivals, fairs, concerts, clubs, galleries, ethnic music, religious life, and sporting events.
Author: The Blade Staff
Published: May, 2007| READ THE SERIES
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| Troubles at Davis-Besse
Description: Coverage of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant.
Author: Tom Henry, Blade Staff
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| LOST YOUTH
Description: The Blade's series on the teenage
sex trade.
Author: Robin Erb and Roberta de Boer
Published: January 2006| READ
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| COINS & CONTRIBUTIONS
Description: The Blade's series on problems
with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation fund's rare-coin investment
controlled by Tom Noe.
Author: Blade staff
Published: Beginning in April 2005 | READ
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TURMOIL AT THE
ZOO
Description: The
Blade's series on problems at The Toledo Zoo and the firing of Tim Reichard,
the zoo's chief veterinarian.
Author: Blade staff
Published: March 2005 | READ
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BEHIND THE CURVE
Description: The Blade's analysis of Ohio's
most dangerous roadways
Author: Joe Mahr
Published: November, 2004 | READ
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HARNESSING THE
POWER OF CREATION
Description:
Blade science writer Jenni Laidman examines stem cell research and the advances
that have sparked hope and controversy The revolution's advance is often
silent, crystallized within the private decisions of desperate couples and
inventive fertility doctors. At the same time, it is a scientific revolution
of unusual public prominence, the subject of presidential electioneering,
Congressional debates, dire predictions, and papal prohibitions.
Author: Jenni Laidman
Published: October, 2004 | READ
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| BENTON HARBOR'S
STRUGGLES
Description: Blade
staff writer Clyde Hughes reported from Benton Harbor, Michigan during the
city's spasm of violence last June.
Author: Clyde Hughes
Published: June, 2003 | READ
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BURIED SECRETS,
BRUTAL TRUTHS
Description: Examination
of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit known as Tiger Force. The platoon committed
atrocities in Vietnam's Song Ve Valley during a seven-month campaign of
terror in 1967. The Army launched an investigation in 1971 that lasted 41/2
years - the longest-known war crime investigation of the Vietnam conflict.
Investigators concluded that 18 soldiers committed war crimes, but no one
was charged.
Author: Mike Sallah, Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr
Published: October, 2003 | READ THE SERIES |
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SHAME,
SIN AND SECRETS
Description: How the Catholic Church
in Toledo covered up sexual abuse in the diocese by priests, lay workers,
and volunteers. Reporters reviewed more than 2,000 police, court, and church
records documenting the abuse of dozens of victims between 1960 and 1994.
The church struggled to quell the crisis and as some safeguards failed to
be implemented the perception of American priests was changing dramatically.
Author: Mike Sallah and David Yonke
Published: December
1, 2002 | READ THE SERIES |
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SMALL
TOWNS
Description: An exodus is under way in most
small towns across Ohio and the nation. It's happening in West Millgrove,
and in Beaverdam and Alexandria and Elgin and Grover Hill, too. While some
small Ohio towns near big cities thrive, those in remote rural areas - particularly
in the northwest corner of the state - are home to fewer and fewer residents.
Author: Kelly Lecker & Erica Blake
Published: May
5, 2002 | READ THE SERIES |
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O.J.
SIMPSON
Description: MIAMI - Bloodied by a custody
battle and stripped of his wealth, O.J. Simpson left his native California
two years ago with his children to seek refuge on the forgiving shores of
South Florida. The single parent vowed he just wanted to be a doting father,
play golf, and live quietly in an unpretentious home amidst the cookie-cutter
neighborhoods of suburban Miami. But since his arrival, his life has been
anything but tranquil.
Author: Mike Sallah
Published:
May 5, 2002 | READ THE
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WORKING
ON A CURE: CANCER ON TRIAL
Description: Last
year, five women with recurring cancer allowed Blade science writer Jenni
Laidman and photographer Jetta Fraser to follow them through an experimental
drug trial at the Medical College of Ohio. This series about that trial
begins a yearlong examination of cancer by The Blade.
Author: Jenni
Laidman
Published: Feb. 10, 2002 | READ THE
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THE
TALIBAN
Description: For the Muslim fundamentalist
members of the Taliban, America is very much a subject worth discussing
Author: Dr. S. Amjad Hussain
Published: June 15 , 2001
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FUTURE
OF THE GREAT LAKES
Description: What’s hard for
most people to comprehend is this: the endless horizon does not mean the
Great Lakes are an endless resource
Author: Tom Henry
Published:
June 13 , 2001 | READ
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AMISH
IN AN 'ENGLISH' WORLD
Description: Amish families
today are facing the dilemma of maintaining traditional lifestyles in a
rapidly changing, modern world
Author: Dee Drummond
Published:
May 6, 2001 | READ THE
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JEEP
SAFETY
Description: Interviews with safety experts
and employees present a plant where safety sometimes takes a back seat to
production demands
Author: Gary Palaski
Published: Feb.
11, 2001 | READ THE SERIES |
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MARTY
FRANKEL: FUGITIVE FINANCIER
Description: Ongoing coverage
of Marty Frankel, a Toledo native charged with one of the largest insurance
frauds ever
Author: Michael Sallah
Published: Ongoing
coverage | READ THE SERIES |
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ORPHANS
OF THE SLAUGHTER
Description: Commercial hunting -
the bushmeat trade - is driving apes into extinction in Africa
Author:
Jenni Laidman
Published: Dec. 10, 2000 | READ
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GRADING
OUR SCHOOLS
Description: The Blade compares fourth-grade
math and reading proficiency test passage rates at nearly 4,000 elementary
schools
Author: Blade staff
Published: Oct. 22, 2000
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LATINOS
IN OHIO
Description: The Hispanic way of life has
never had a bigger influence on the nation and on this region
Author:
Clyde Hughes
Published: Oct 15, 2000 | READ
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ARAB
TOLEDO
Description: The story of Arab immigrants in northwest
Ohio is largely unknown, even to some in the local Arab-American community
Author: Betsy Hiel
Published: March 26, 2000 | READ
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SINDISWA
Description: The story of Sindiswa and her gorilla family turns
arguments about the rights of gorillas from intellectual abstractions into
a drama
Author: Jenni Laidman
Published: Nov 14, 1999
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DEADLY
ALLIANCE
Description: It is a substance many people
have never even heard of. Yet it has been one of the most critical materials
to the U.S. government
Author: Sam Roe
Published:
March 28, 1999 | READ
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PITCAIRN
ISLAND
Description: Blade staff writer Joshua Benton
became the first American journalist to visit Pitcairn in a decade
Reporter:
Josh Benton
Published: Aug. 22, 1999 | READ
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