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  • July 2008

    • New England Soccer Team Subdues Passenger

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 19, 08 2:56 PM CDT

      New England Soccer Team Subdues Passenger

      An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a professional soccer team and others, the FBI said. Members of the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer were among those who grabbed the passenger near an exit door, the AP reports. More »

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      airplane  • Boston  • flight  • airline passengers  • New England

    • Phone Dragnet Redefines 'APB'

      newser  |  WBZ 4  |  Jul 18, 08 3:50 PM CDT

      Phone Dragnet Redefines 'APB'

      Foiled in their attempts to track down a hit-and-run driver by conventional means, cops in a Boston suburb are enlisting the help of thousands of city residents—by phone. A BMW struck a 9-year-old girl Saturday, leaving her with a fractured skull and investigators with little info. They sent a recorded message to more than 24,000 households and now have dozens of leads, WBZ-TV reports. More »

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      crime  • Boston  • hit and run

  • May 2008

    • San Francisco, Seattle Top US Fittest Cities List

      newser  |  USA Today  |  May 30, 08 12:50 PM CDT

      San Francisco, Seattle Top US Fittest Cities List

      San Francisco has narrowly edged out Seattle for the distinction of being America's fittest big city, says a new study released by the American College of Sports Medicine. Judging 16 large metropolitan areas on factors ranging from exercise frequency and fruit intake to the availability of parks and public transportation, the study put Los Angeles near the bottom, reports USA Today. More »

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      Los Angeles  • San Francisco  • Detroit  • public health  • Boston  • exercise  • Seattle  • fitness  • healthy eating  • commuting  • parks

    • Boston Trains Collide; Young Operator Killed

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  May 28, 08 8:46 PM CDT

      Boston Trains Collide; Young Operator Killed

      A commuter train slammed into the rear of another during rush hour near Boston today, killing the operator of one of the trains, the Boston Globe reports. The victim, a 24-year-old woman, had been on the job less than a year. The cause remains unclear, and one person is still hospitalized. The accident follows a derailment this morning in Chicago that injured 14 and was blamed on human error—a motorman went through a stop signal. More »

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      Boston  • train crash

    • Philly Best for Young Grads

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  May 1, 08 8:29 PM CDT

      Philly Best for Young Grads

      Cheesesteaks aren’t the only things luring young people to the City of Brotherly Love, MSNBC reports. A survey by Apartments.com and Careerbuilder that factors in the cost of apartments, job opportunities, and the number of 20-somethings, puts Philadelphia—$962 for a one-bedroom compared with $1,520 in NYC— atop its list. The rest of the top 10: More »

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      Los Angeles  • Chicago  • New York  • Detroit  • Boston  • Philadelphia  • Atlanta  • housing  • Houston  • Dallas  • Phoenix  • Generation Y  • college graduates

  • April 2008

    • Boy Marries Boy: Then What?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 27, 08 7:25 PM CDT

      Boy Marries Boy: Then What?

      Wedding bells have rung for more than 700 homosexual couples in Massachusetts since the state started marrying gays in 2004, prompting the New York Times to profile young gay men who said “I do.” But there are many things the spouses don’t do, such as follow traditional norms: “We don’t think there is any set way to do this,” one 24-year-old said. More »

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      gay marriage  • homosexuality  • Boston  • Massachusetts  • Vermont  • civil union

    • Did the Egyptians Invent Concrete?

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Apr 22, 08 1:25 PM CDT

      Did the Egyptians Invent Concrete?

      The Egyptians may have used concrete to build the pyramids, an MIT professor suggests, and he's using materials available at the time (and students as his slave labor), to test the theory on a small mock-up of a pyramid, reports the Boston Globe. "It could be they used less sweat and more smarts," says Linn Hobbs, a materials science prof, by casting in place blocks on the upper reaches of the pyramids using wooden molds. More »

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      Boston  • MIT  • ancient Egypt  • Pyramids

    • Cheruiyot, Tune Win Boston

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 21, 08 1:38 PM CDT

      Cheruiyot, Tune Win Boston

      Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya became the fourth man to win the Boston Marathon four times today, crossing the finish line on 2:07:46, 32 seconds slower than his own course record, the AP reports. Dire Tune of Ethiopia won the women’s race in 2:22:25, squeaking past Russian Alevtina Biktimirova by just 2 seconds in the tightest women's finish ever. More »

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      Kenya  • Boston  • Ethiopia  • marathon  • Boston Marathon  • Robert Cheruiyot

    • Conan's Stalker Priest Pleads Guilty

      newser  |  WBZ 4  |  Apr 8, 08 4:17 PM CDT

      Conan's Stalker Priest Pleads Guilty

      A Roman Catholic priest who stalked Conan O'Brien pleaded guilty today to disorderly conduct and apologized for his actions, WBZ-TV reports. Rev. David Ajemian, 46, sent the late-night talk-show host threatening letters on parish letterhead—referring to himself as "your stalker priest"—contacted O'Brien's parents, and got caught trying to sneak into a New York taping after being told to stay away. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Boston  • Conan O'Brien  • priest  • stalker  • Archdiocese of Boston

    • As Cities Burned, James Brown Saved Boston

      newser  |  Boston Phoenix  |  Apr 5, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      As Cities Burned, James Brown Saved Boston

      In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, riots raged in many American cities. In Boston, where there had been unrest on the night of April 4, officials worried about the fallout of a James Brown concert scheduled for April 5 at a downtown arena. A new documentary airing tonight on VH1 gives away the ending in its title: The Night James Brown Saved Boston. More »

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      Boston  • Martin Luther King Jr.  • James Brown  • Boston Garden  • Kevin White

  • March 2008

    • Boston Dogs Best in the Land

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 29, 08 9:33 AM CDT

      Boston Dogs Best in the Land

      America's best hot dog is to be found in Beantown, writes Raymond Sokolov in the Wall Street Journal . On the eve of a new baseball season, Sokolov criss-crossed the country in a quest to find the top dog. Hollywood, New York, and (especially) Chicago offered strong contenders, but perfection in a bun was found at Speed's—a humble hot dog stand in a Boston parking lot. More »

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      Chicago  • food  • Boston  • fast food  • hot dogs

    • One if by Land, LED if by Sea...

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 3, 08 8:30 PM CST

      One if by Land, LED if by Sea...

      The green bulbs are coming, the green bulbs are coming! That’s the appropriate contemporary cry for a Paul Revere impersonator, who might still be able to use the Old North Church’s lanterns to warn of a British invasion—but would have to settle for LEDs. The Boston landmark has ditched incandescents to light its ceiling vaults, going green with efficient bulbs that last 25 times as long, the AP reports. More »

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      Boston  • LEDs  • eco friendliness  • Revolutionary War

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Big Dig's Big Mess Nets Big Settlement

      newser  |  Boston Herald  |  Jan 23, 08 6:34 PM CST

      Big Dig's Big Mess Nets Big Settlement

      Contractors on the botched Boston construction project dubbed the Big Dig will pay state and federal authorities $458 million for its “gross failures.” But Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff will avoid criminal charges for a fatal 2006 ceiling collapse and won’t be banned from future government contracts, the Boston Herald reports. Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley called it “the best possible solution.” More »

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      Boston  • Massachusetts  • construction  • contractors  • Deval Patrick  • Big Dig

    • Comcast, TiVo Team Up in Boston

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Jan 22, 08 10:24 AM CST

      Comcast, TiVo Team Up in Boston

      TiVo and Comcast have rolled out their promised joint service in the Boston area, with national distribution to follow. The service sends TiVo software to Comcast-provided digital video recorders in a first that TiVo hopes to repeat with other cable providers, USA Today reports. TiVo lost hundreds of thousands of customers when DirecTV turned to an in-house DVR. More »

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      Boston  • Comcast  • DirecTV  • digital video  • TiVo  • DVR

    • Cancer Pioneer Folkman Dead

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Jan 16, 08 7:42 AM CST

      Cancer Pioneer Folkman Dead

      Cancer researcher Judah Folkman, whose insights and tenacity spawned a whole new branch of oncology, died Monday at age 74, the Boston Globe reports. Folkman pioneered the notion that cancer tumors could be halted if their blood supply was cut off; he persevered despite decades of skepticism in the field and research setbacks. The work led to the creation of several successful drugs, most notably Avastin, and there are many more in the pipeline. More »

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      obituary  • cancer  • Boston  • cancer research  • tumors  • Harvard Medical School  • blood vessels

    • Superbug Strikes Gay Men

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 15, 08 7:54 AM CST

      Superbug Strikes Gay Men

      A new strain of the "flesh-eating" bacteria MRSA is spreading rapidly among gay men in Boston and San Francisco and there are warnings it could extend to a larger population, the New York Times reports. The drug-resistant strain seems to be spreading largely by sexual contact, but it can also be passed via skin contact or simply by touching a contaminated surface, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine . More »

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      San Francisco  • Boston  • antibiotics  • MRSA  • staph infections  • superbug

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