Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...
HINGHAM — The hands of 87-year-old Astrid Donnellan are as steady as a surgeon as she painstakingly works on restoring the dial of an 1825 antique clock. Clocks are on everyone’s minds this weekend as ...