As a 2nd time rider in the Pan Mass Challenge I was fortunate enough to make it to a select group of cyclists that rode with Lance Armstrong for many miles last Saturday. Armstrong's appearance in the PMC inspired everyone involved - we hope he comes back again.
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Whoever stole a laptop from Anna's Taqueria has also put a major dent in cancer research. [Boston Herald]
Classified Afghanistan War documents probably ended up on WikiLeaks with the help of someone in Boston. [The Phoenix]
There is some legal debate on how legally creepy one can be on the T. [Boston Herald]
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In response to last year's excessive tailgating (including two alcohol-related deaths), hundreds sobered up with cops instead of seeing Kenny Chesney at the New England Country Music Festival. [Boston Globe]
Southwest Airlines has landed at Logan. [Dallas Morning News]
A team from Peabody is heading to the Little League World Series tournament. [Daily News of Newburyport]
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The Boston Breakers have teamed up with Puma’s Project Pink to help fight breast cancer by holding the first of 5 scheduled matches at Harvard Stadium on Saturday night. Players will be wearing special pink Puma uniforms for these matches which will be auctioned off during the game, and there will be a variety of other pink merchandise available as well with alll of the proceeds going to the Boston chapter of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
Who amongst us in the Ist-a-verse isn't drawn to news about animals? For example, the appearance of the Fenway Hawk might have been the highlight from Sunday's Red Sox loss.
More MIT madness leads off this edition of Beaker Hill. We’re always thoroughly impressed by these Cantabridgian crusaders, not just for the intriguing work they put together, but also for the way completely off-the-wall concepts make perfect sense in their world.Take their new cancer-targeting system loosely modeled after a Viking longboat. No, it’s not a mashup of Beowulf and Fantastic Voyage (as entertaining as that would be) but a contraption out of the lab of Stephen Lippard. The system uses a carbon nanotube as the “boat,” which carries two passengers: a folate derivative used to target certain types of cancer cells, and the cancer-killing drug cisplatin. Once the boat reaches shore by virtue of the cancer cells’ folate receptors, the cisplatin is released to loot, pillage, and destroy everything in its wake. The Lippard team’s article can be found in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, along with a teaser for their next project: a Robespierre-inspired obesity targeting compound that slices through fat cells like a guillotine and screams, “Let them eat cake!”
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