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--What is going on with all these tanker accidents? Another tanker crashed this morning in Woburn. It appears that injuries were minor, but I-93 South was shut down. [WBZ]

--Brookline resident Yang Jianli will walk 500 miles from Boston to Washington DC to draw attention to human rights violations in China. The subject is close to his heart--he survived a Chinese prison camp and the Tiananmen Square massacre. [BU Daily Free Press]

--It's going to cost more to park in Harvard and Kendall Squares in Cambridge. Now, it will cost a quarter to park for 15 minutes. [Cambridge Chronicle]

--Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards and a considerable force in her own right, will be a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics. [Harvard Crimson]

--Boston Beer Co., who makes Sam Adams, is stepping in to avert a hops crisis by sharing it hops with other craft brewers. Thousands will hoist a Sam Adams tonight. [AP/Boston Globe]

--Manny Ramirez is going to be Macy's face of Father's Day. We never imagined him as that huggable, but so it goes. [Surviving Grady]

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