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Congressman Ed Markey is making news on a local and national level.
- Animal experts on Cape Cod are concerned about the impact the BP oil spill will have on endangered wildlife that comes to Cape Cod. [Cape Cod Online]
- Provincetown's school committee will reconsider making free condoms available to all students. [Boston Globe]
- Nine Nantucket beaches are closed to swimming due to bacteria. [Boston Herald]
Rep. Ed Markey has fallen in love with the idea of hating BP for laying waste to the Gulf of Mexico with that oil spill in April. Can you blame him? He recently exposed BP, and other top oil companies, for not taking safety seriously.
- An international flight headed to Rome returned to Logan Airport on Tuesday after an engine fire required an made an emergency landing. The pilot announced "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" to the airport controllers. At least one Winthrop resident heard explosions and saw flames. [WCVB]
- The Brockton Enterprise posted some photos of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that were taken from a U.S. Coast Guard airplane. [Brockton Enterprise]
Hundreds of BU students were displaced last night following a tragic oil spill in the Miles Standish Student Preserve. Rescue crews were dispatched to the area immediately in order to rescue as many students as possible, with volunteers scrubbing oil-soaked students in makeshift baths hurriedly constructed on Comm Ave.
SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the...
This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the...






