Having heard rumours, Mr Mattis asked Paul Messier, a prominent photographic conservator from Boston, to test the authenticity of a couple of his own vintage Hines.

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According to a Boston Globe analysis of test data, FAA agents, posing as passengers, slipped 234 guns and other weapons past screeners at Logan -- the worst record of any major U.S. airport in the past 10 years.

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"I don't see this as a bad thing--I see it as good, " says James Tobin, chief of Boston Scientific, of efforts to more thoroughly test devices.

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The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).

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They also happen to have their own seafood safety lab in Boston, which I have seen, and they rigorously test every batch of stuff they get in, and I am more confident in the health standards of seafood from Legal than anywhere else.

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