Chelsea Aglow

Remember about a couple weeks ago when Boston went into a panic about the dirty-bomb that might be coming our way with the Chinese Nationals that had been smuggled into the US from Mexico? Bostonist breathed a sigh of relief when they told us it was all a buzz and no substance. There had been reports of people downtown with Geiger counters (hence the dirty bomb rumors), maybe they were just looking for the radioactive material that showed up in Chelsea yesterday. The city, people, and environment are all reportedly safe and the radioactive material did not pose any threat.

In an amazing feat of homeland security, Halliburton lost a shipment of a radioactive material going from New York to Houston. One of the most amusing tidbits from this story is that the material was the patriotically named americium. The substance is used in oil exploration and was lost after arriving from Russia on October 9, 2004. Conspiracy theory says Dick Cheney might have put a "deliver to John Kerry" sticker on the package before the election—this all before the Yushchenko dioxin scandal.

picture from we-make-money-not-art today on anti-cancer chicken