Dowbrigade

Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation
to blanket the city with “open access”; wireless Internet connections,
under a plan to be unveiled today by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
The plan, which envisions raising $16 million to $20 million from local businesses
and foundations, [...]

At restaurants throughout the world, menus feature “Maine lobster," that
sweet, succulent stuff that makes grown people don bibs and make a delicious
mess. Like Idaho potatoes, Vermont maple syrup, and Florida oranges,
Maine [...]

DUBLIN (Reuters) - It started as an April Fool’s joke but an Irish
bookmaker’s proposal to hold the world’s biggest strip poker contest
will become reality next month.
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The heat wave is getting to people all over the country. Check out
this video of Fox Newscaster Jodi Applegate getting totally freaked out
by a couple of guys demonstrating how easy it is to steal a [...]

The heat wave is getting to people all over the country. Check out
this video of Fox Newscaster Jodi Applegate getting totally freaked out
by a couple of guys demonstrating how easy it is to steal a bike with
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Unlucky in love? Stop beating yourself
up — and think about moving. Maybe to Denver. After all, it is the
best city for singles.
For the third consecutive year, Denver-Boulder [...]

Blame it on our upbringing. Too much breast feeding,
or not enough, but regular readers of the Dowbrigade may have noted
a certain fixation with the human breast.
In particular, we are deeply distressed by the discrepency
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India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas
Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child scheme - which aims to provide kids
in developing countries with a simple $100 machine.
The success [...]

It takes only a bedsheet and 18-gauge wire for Bruce
Macdonald to stir road rage in some motorists.
For eight months the Cambridge lawyer has been stringing homemade banners from
highway overpasses, including those crossing Interstate 93 and Route 128. His
neatly painted messages usually take short jabs at [...]

Over the past several weeks the Dowbrigade has seen
a sea change in his feelings about what is happening, and what will
happen next, in the Middle East. We no longer see an intractable long-term struggle and
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Ames, IA — Physicist Costas Soukoulis
and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory
on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives
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