Bite Size News, May 4: Truancy, War, Influence Edition

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  • Revere City Council freaks out after teens swarmed the beach last Tuesday. [Boston Herald]
  • A Massachusetts sailor has been in killed in Iraq. [South Coast Today]
  • Filene's Basement files for bankruptcy, and some stores will remain open. [Boston Business Journal]
  • This year's "Most Influential People" included New Englanders like Senator Ted Kennedy, kidnapped captain Richard Phillips, Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, presidential speechwriter Jon Favreau, and Jay Leno. [Time]
  • Ten-year-old NH golfer hits a hole-in-one. [Portsmouth Herald]
  • Turtles make Cape Cod-to-Georgia trek in less than three days -- by car. [Boston Globe]
  • Giant giraffe lifted and left on lawn. [WBZ-TV]


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My apologies to 3 other Harvard profs that made the "Time 100" this year:

Roland Fryer, Nicholas Christakis, Douglas Melton

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