Tonight I went to the Red Sox game with my father, and it was a wonderful time (as going to a Red Sox game always is), even though the game itself was most disappointing with an 8-4 loss against the Cleveland Stereotypes (and breaking our five game winning streak). I finally got to see Matsuzaka pitch in-person and he's got gorgeous form, but gave ( Read more... )

The largest biotechnology and life sciences convention in history is currently underway in Boston. The BIO International Conference has gathered over 20,000 people from all over the world and brought them to Boston, currently one of the centers of biotechnology ( Read more... )

Do you like Chocolate? Do you live in the United States?

If the question to both those questions is yes, you ought to check out this website that is trying to fight pending changes to FDA regulations which have the gaul to actually say that things that are called chocolate must actually contain cocoa or cocoa butter. These new rules pushed seek to ( Read more... )

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Salon.com's Kerry "Video Dog" Lauerman had this to say:
Joel Surnow, "24" producer and Rush Limbaugh pal, is producing the show, which stars Kurt Long and Jenn Robertson and will go for a test spin the next two Sundays at 10 p.m. It's essentially a righty version of SNL's "Weekend Update." [...] But making fun of Obama for using drugs -- when he's ( Read more... )

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Desperation meet 'Oops'.

UCLA's Daily Bruin has a write up. A student taped and uploaded a video of the event to YouTube:

There's also some student reactions from the UCLA LiveJournal community here and a response to the video here. There's already a group formed on Facebook over the issueMy friends, this is the power of the Internet. Clearly something very horrible ( Read more... )

The Red Sox are the biggest thing in Baseball right now. We're not talking about 2006 anymore, we're talking about 2007. And the biggest things on the mind's of the baseball public is the ridiculous bidding over Seibu Lions player Daisuke Matsuzaka.

51.1 Million
That's the winning bid the Red Sox placed just for the rights to potentially ( Read more... )

Turnout in the Massachusetts General Election has been very high considering every poll in the last two weeks has put gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick at least 20 points ahead of his rival Kerry Healey. The AP is giving the election to Patrick claiming that much of his support came from independents and moderates, which ate away from Healey ( Read more... )