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  • March 2008

    • Boston Dogs Best in the Land

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

      Boston Dogs Best in the Land

      (Newser) - 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...

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

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

      (Newser) - 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

    • Storm Snarls NE Flights

      Associated Press  |  Feb 22, 08 7:03 PM CST

      Storm Snarls NE Flights

      (Newser) - A nasty winter storm swept across the country today, forcing major flight delays at New York City airports, closing schools from Ohio to Connecticut, and causing road accidents in Missouri that left 5 dead, the AP reports. Heavy snowfall in the New York metro area grounded 900 flights and led to delays of up to 5 hours. More »

    • St. Patty's, Holy Week Collide

      Boston Globe  |  Feb 21, 08 4:14 PM CST

      St. Patty's, Holy Week Collide

      (Newser) - This year’s calendar sees St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) falling during the week preceding Easter, which has caused most organizers to move parades forward to avoid forcing Irish Catholics to choose between heritage and the church's Holy Week, the Boston Globe reports. South Boston planners, however, refused to reschedule the parade, which is still set for March 16, or Palm Sunday. More »

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      Boston  • Holy Week  • St. Patrick's Day  • Palm Sunday  • Irish Catholics

    • Century Mark Within Reach for Many

      Boston Globe  |  Feb 12, 08 9:50 AM CST

      Century Mark Within Reach for Many

      (Newser) - Even people with heart disease or diabetes can hit the century mark if they take care of themselves, two new studies say. The trick for living to 100 is managing illness well enough to stay independent. "It's kind of a threesome: get more years, better years, and better function," the lead author of one study told the Boston Globe. More »

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      science  • elderly  • Boston  • Harvard  • lifestyle  • health research  • longevity  • healthy habits

    • Romney Gears Up for Hard Fight

      Associated Press  |  Feb 6, 08 5:01 AM CST

      Romney Gears Up for Hard Fight

      (Newser) - Victorious only in his home state of Massachusetts, Utah, and five caucus states, Mitt Romney vowed last night to stay in the campaign—and is digging in for a long, hard battle, AP reports. Speaking in Boston, Romney pledged to fight all the way to the convention, casting his campaign as a struggle to save the nation's future. "It's not all done tonight. We're going to keep on battling," he said. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • Mike Huckabee  • Utah  • Super Tuesday  • Boston  • Republican nomination  • West Virginia

  • January 2008

    • Big Dig's Big Mess Nets Big Settlement

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

      Big Dig's Big Mess Nets Big Settlement

      (Newser) - 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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      Massachusetts  • Boston  • construction  • contractors  • Deval Patrick  • Big Dig

    • Comcast, TiVo Team Up in Boston

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

      Comcast, TiVo Team Up in Boston

      (Newser) - 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  • digital video  • TiVo  • DirecTV  • DVR

    • Cancer Pioneer Folkman Dead

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

      Cancer Pioneer Folkman Dead

      (Newser) - 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

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

      Superbug Strikes Gay Men

      (Newser) - 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

  • December 2007

    • Boston's $14.8B 'Big Dig' All Dug

      Associated Press  |  Dec 26, 07 3:00 AM CST

      Boston's $14.8B 'Big Dig' All Dug

      (Newser) - The most complicated and expensive highway project in American history is finally complete, AP reports. After 16 years of excavating and building, the ambitious "Big Dig" tunnel project under Boston will be turned over to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority January 1. The final price tag was $14.8 billion—$12 billion over the first estimate in 1982. More »

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      Boston  • construction  • highways  • excavation  • Big Dig

    • Ron Paul 'Tea Party' Nets $6M

      Boston Globe  |  Dec 17, 07 6:52 AM CST

      Ron Paul 'Tea Party' Nets $6M

      (Newser) - In an event dubbed "Boston TeaParty07," supporters of quirky GOP candidate Ron Paul rallied in the Boston snow yesterday while donations from across the nation dropped a record-breaking one-day "money bomb" of $6 million into the campaign. Most of the funds were donated over the Internet. To Paul's backers, the fundraising blitz demonstrated that he's a ''viable candidate," the Boston Globe reports. More »

    • Winter Is Here to Stay

      Associated Press  |  Dec 14, 07 10:56 AM CST

      Winter Is Here to Stay

      (Newser) - In the wake of an ice storm that cut power to millions, the Midwest is bracing for a second, with a 2 to 6 inches of snow headed for Kansas and Oklahoma, reports the AP. For the half-million still without power and those in emergency shelters, the next hit could mean a longer wait out in the cold.  More »

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      Boston  • Kansas  • Oklahoma  •