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LNG through Boston Harbor: Safe or unsafe?

Adam Balsam says Tom Menino and Sal LaMattina should stop their posturing, listen to the Coast Guard and admit giant LNG tankers are safe. Matt Conti, who lives in the North End, acknowledges the risk of a neighborhood-consuming fireball is low, but notes all the precautions the Coast Guard takes…

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Online Weblog Leads To Firing | The Harvard Crimson

//http://scootronimus.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/dea r-u-s-state-department-please-bite-me/ her new site is similarly complaining about work, etc....and back to work at harvard?

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Forest Hills commuters could be losing a place to park

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the parking lot across the street from the Forest Hills T stop will be put up for a foreclosure auction on March 3.

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South End bank held up

Boston Police tweet the Hingham Institute for Savings at 540 Tremont St., was held up late this afternoon.

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Exploding laptop battery sparks fire at Roslindale assisted-living facility

The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries from the explosion this afternoon on the fourth floor of Sophia Snow Place, 1205 Centre St.: read more

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Transmaterial » Blog Archive » Monocoque

OBJET’s Polyjet matrix technology allows assignment of structural properties to 3-D printed substances: http://bit.ly/4DbVXv [from http://twitter.com/sandroalberti/statuses/75312720 10]

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Merloni: Garciaparra still hopes to play

Merloni, who now works for WEEI.com and Comcast SportsNet, said he spoke to the 36-year-old Garciaparra, who said his problematic calf injury feels better ...See all stories on this topic (via Google Alerts and AlertRank)

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Boston Blotter: IMs OK for Pervs, Home Invasion in Charlestown, Hospital biting, Caning

Blotter siren -- The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it's legal for sexual predators to contact children using instant messaging since IMs are "typewritten" and the law covers just "handwritten materials.'' The Court reversed the 2007 conviction of Matt H. Zubiel for attempted dissemination…

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Boston cop who sent racist, misogynist Gates e-mail fired

Boston Police announced today that Commissioner Ed Davis has fired Justin Barrett, a police officer who sent out a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates as "a jungle monkey." In a statement, Davis said: read more

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Bite Size News, February 5: Fired! Edition

Image by bringmespears from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis fired Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer who referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey." [Boston Globe]The White House says President…

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Boston Reference Professionals Google Group

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Puccini's La Rondine this weekend in Fort Point

What draws young people into the opera, leads them to pour their fresh talent into the old wineskins of a foreign art? And why does a monolingual schlub like this Bostonist--whose primary engagement with culture is a daily trip to 7-Eleven--find joy in watching and half-understanding them? …

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If any news breaks, could you guys fix it?

Heading out, to take part in a panel discussion at the Park Plaza on how reporters can write effectively for online ("write well!" I'll urge them, and then sit down to await their encomiums). Since something big seems to happen every single time I go into radio silence (like this, which happened…

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Man who eats squirrel brains and live bugs for a living makes endorsement in race to replace Anthony Galluccio

Bizarre Foods guy Andrew Zimmern endorses Michael Albano in the special state-senate election: My childhood pal Michael Albano is running for State Senator in Massachusetts, and in heady times like these I think it is crucial that we support progressive democrats like Michael. ... Via Wicked Local…

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Dog Blotter: Hey, Rhode Island: Don't Operate on Your Own Dogs!

Certain things seem obvious, so obvious that it goes unsaid that they shouldn't be done. At least one Rhode Island man failed to read the memo that explained it's a dumb friggin' idea to perform surgery on your own dog to treat a cyst. The gang at the Rhode Show - think Fox & Friends in a…

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Kitchen fire in Financial District restaurant

The Boston Fire Department responded to a fire in the ductwork at Houston's, 60 State St., around 1 p.m. As a precaution, the first five floors of the building were evacuated.

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Photo of the Day, February 5, 2010: Clear Skies

Image tagged Bostonist by material guy. Happy Friday from all of us at Bostonist. We chose this photo by material guy because we like the crisp colors and wide open sky. It’s supposed to snow almost two feet in parts of the mid-Atlantic this weekend, but we in Boston don’t have…

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Internship at the Goethe-Institut in Boston

For advanced students of German or recent graduates.

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East Boston bank robbed

2/5/10 - 11:00 pm Boston Police tweet that the East Boston Savings Bank branch at 856 Bennington St. was held up late morning.

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Latino groups charge Boston is screwing kids whose native language isn't English

Their answer: Withhold millions of dollars in federal funds from Boston public schools.

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