Bite Size News, October 21: Going Down


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  • People are looking for a less expensive college experience. In a recession? Really? [Globe]

  • Maybe convents and monasteries are affordable alternatives to hotels. To colleges, too, perhaps? [NYT]

  • A Boston firefighter and Iraq veteran was killed in a car crash. And oh yeah--his friend died, too. [Herald]

  • Oil prices plummeted. [Globe]

  • So did wingsuiters. [Globe]

  • Massachusetts residents are competing to be the biggest loser--of energy usage and costs--in Energy Smackdown. [WCVB]

  • Elliott Smith died five years ago today. [Bradley's Almanac]


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