Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: 1998 (Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy)
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Mobile, the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S., today announced the results of a local market survey which revealed that not only do 81 percent of Boston cell phone users text but that they’re doing it everywhere. According to CTIA, 4.1 billion text messages are sent everyday and many Boston residents surveyed admit they have texted while...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
This is hard. There are so many to choose from. We started going to their concerts in the 1970s when we were living in Providence, and have been going for decades, actually, including their occasional forays to London. A couple of years ago we timed our trip to Boston so we could hear their Christmas concert, as well as go to the Revels for the first time in a couple of years. The Camerata...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | yesterday
New England’s life sciences firms and their investors seemed to be exchanging some early holiday gifts this week. —Vertex (NASDAQ: VRTX) completed the latest in a string of large financing and licensing deals. In this one, the Cambridge, MA-based developer of drugs for hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis sold a total of $500.5 million worth of [...]
Morninpaper (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
This is beginning to happen with a bit of frequency in the Boston area. This time a woman was dragged when a train closed the door on her purse. Still around her shoulder, the woman was dragged for a few feet when the train started. Luckily she was spotted and the train [...]
Political Wrinkles (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
---Quote--- In pubs all across the Boston area, members of the small, tight-knit community of Irish folk musicians are mourning the death of one of...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
A handful of startups from the Boston area are joining an exclusive club today. The World Economic Forum—the Swiss nonprofit that has previously honored such companies as Cambridge, MA-based biotech Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALNY), PayPal, and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)—has named six local companies to its prestigious annual list of Technology Pioneers, the organization announced...
Wheeler's Black Label Vegan Ice Cream (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Hi everyone, it's that time of year again! Although Wheeler is already busy making batches of ice cream and other desserts for the holidays, we've add another event to our calendar this season! We will be participating in this year's Boston Bazaar Bizarre this Saturday, December 6th from 12PM-6PM at the BCA Cyclorama. Admission is $1, but it is totally worth it to check out some of these amazing...
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
CTV.ca Area health centers to distribute flu vaccine Boston Globe In a clear sign that vaccine supplies are becoming more bountiful, Boston-area health departments will distribute thousands of shots and nasal sprays against swine flu during major public immunization drives in coming days. ... Students go hog-wild over vaccine The Brown Daily Herald H1N1 'registry'...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... it was the 5th. But that kind of service-with-a-smile might be part of the reason the CIC, the Boston area’s most famous collection of rental offices for technology startups, has lasted a full decade—and expanded far beyond its original location to occupy eight of the 16 floors at One Broadway in Kendall Square. For Rowe is much more than an itinerant landlord: he’s also the CIC’s...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
In a clear sign that vaccine supplies are becoming more bountiful, Boston-area health departments will distribute thousands of shots and nasal sprays against swine flu during major public immunization drives in coming days.
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The dollar amounts ranged from the modest (FitnessKeeper) to the mammoth (Vertex) for New England tech and life sciences deals this week. —Boston’s FitnessKeeper, maker of the RunKeeper iPhone application, raised $400,000 from Cambridge, MA-based LaunchCapital and a group of individual investors. Wade chatted with FitnessKeeper founder and CEO Jason Jacobs about his plans for the...
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
guardian.co.uk Somerville holding two H1N1 clinics Boston Globe In a clear sign that vaccine supplies are becoming more bountiful, Boston-area health departments will distribute thousands of shots and nasal sprays against swine flu during major public immunization drives in coming days ... More pregnant women need H1N1 vaccine, official says DesMoinesRegister.com Local...
Boston Post Mortem (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... money to Child’s Play directly, but these local charity drives are a nice way to say that the Boston area gaming community donated X amount of money. If you know any locations (College campuses, shops, cafes) that would post flyers for the event, let the organizers know and they can provide them ( info@gp4cp.org ). Please note: the organizers of the Boston Post Mortem are not...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Somewhere between the turkey prep and the post-pie catatonia, folks at New England’s life sciences companies managed to make some news. —Idera Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:IDRA), a developer of DNA- and RNA-based drugs, announced that Swiss drug giant Novartis will end its four-year-old collaboration with the Cambridge, MA-based firm in February. Idera still has active collaborations with Germany-based...
49 Writers (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... example, 826 Valencia in San Francisco * (founded in 2002 by Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari) or Boston's Grub Street (founded in 1997 by Eve Bridburg)? And what is a writing center, anyway? Here's how Grub Street explains what they do: Grub Street is a non-profit creative writing center dedicated to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the Boston...
