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The MBTA doesn't allow smoking or cigarette advertising on its property, so why does it permit vendors to sell cigarettes in its stations?

And why has the T secretly and successfully lobbied to kill a bill (H. 3594) which would have prevented tobacco sales in T stations?

Seriously, we have mid-terms all week and these frustrating loses just make it so easy to continue studying. The offense better return and back up Beckett. The pitching has been hung out to dry the past two games and the offense shows up, barely, after the starters depart.

Good thing the Bruins return on Thursday.

Single guys and gals in your 50s-60s, how about meeting at Billings Field West Roxbury on the LaGrange Street side on Saturday, Oct. 27th, 2007, around 11 am.....we can meet our neighbors and make new friends! Wear a flower in your hair or your lapel to i.d. yourself as interesting in talking....let's stick our necks out in the 'hood!

Any advice on how to deal with neighbors' volume control issues without enduring too much wrath? My plates are rattling in the sink.
Landlord has already sent neighbors letters and talked to them about it, nothing he has done has been too effective. Of course, he doesn't have to live with them.

It is difficult to find an adequate definition for the phrase "human being." Nothing I found comes close, taking into account the complexities of our species.

People don't live on the margins, none of us are all good or all bad. Our lives take place on a broad page with many choices. Good, bad, decisions we make that we would like to take back. We are all capable of great kindnesses and cruelties. Few of us would turn down the opportunity to hit the "do over" button of life and get a chance to change one aspect or another of our lives.

I am a Master's student in Historic Preservation, and I am collecting research on the Filene's Complex/One Franklin Street Redevelopment. What do Bostonians think about this project? Do you the Filene's buildings will be overshadowed by the tower? Will Downtown Crossing be able to keep its historic presence? Are you excited or disappointed about the redevelopment?

Earthlings,

Robots and other cool visuals are needed to entertain other earthlings at Neighbortron - Party for a purpose. Neighbortron is electronic Dance Party Fundraiser being held this Friday, October 12 from 10 to 1 AM at the Milky Way, 403 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain.

Proceeds will go to a non-profit I run in JP called Neighbors for Neighbors. Please help me find creators/owners of robots and cool visual effects who would be willing to bring them to the Milky Way!

Today, the Fluff Festival will once again take place in Union Square from 4pm until 7pm. They are celebrating the 90th anniversary of fluff being invented right there in Somerville.

There will be games for everyone, music (Thunderpants Johnson's Hillbilly Orchestra, B for Brontosaurus, Adriel Azure and his Dream Indigo Orchestra, and of course, The Flufferettes aka Thru the Keyhole Burlesque), a cooking contest, and plenty of fluff.

Fire at Wentworth in one of the apartment buildings on Louis Prang. Flames were billowing out of the windows. No news of anyone being hurt.

American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo offers a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman -- and we invite you to join us for a discussion with the author!

Ana Castillo - The Guardians
Thursday, October 4th, 7pm
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street
Cambridge, MA
Free

Did anyone else see the helicopter flying over the Charles around 1:00 this afternoon? I was driving down Memorial Drive from the Harvard Bridge towards Harvard Square when I saw a low flying helicopter come over from the Kenmore Sq area and then over the Charles. It got real low and I think it landed a few hundred yards in Cambridge. I couldn't see exactly where.

It’s awards show season, and you know what that means! Time for me to pick the nominees for the Hottest Boston News Woman of the year, and for you to vote on them. We have a good crop this year, so scan/ogle them all closely, and then vote for your favorite at the bottom of the page.

As usual, this year’s winner will receive nothing more than the slightly creeped-out feeling, that people actually vote on things like this.

In the world of politics in Boston, Massachusetts the name Iannella goes hand in hand. But who is Christopher A. Iannella Jr? I have heard through the great vine that his father Christopher Iannella Sr. was a great man. This leaves me with one question is the son the same as the father in the world of politics or is he just an attorney? www.iannellamummolo.com (His website)

So I'm not surprised that the Brazil vs Mexico soccer game was a big draw. (67,584 people, it says here.)

If a Belichick could check signals, how many signals could a Belichick check?

The answer to this new tongue twister is "all of them" apparently as Bill has admitted and apologized.

As opposed to the woodchuck in the original, whom we found out couldn't chuck wood period.

http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-belich...

Probably because we ride the same train nearly every day, rail commuters seem friendlier than subway commuters. In addition to "train buddies," we also see the same conductors each day, and they see us, so there gets to be a bit more of a bond there.