New York Times: Workers on surface ships continued to flare gas and oil on Tuesday at the site of BP’s runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, as officials announced that a critical pressure test on the well would be postponed, pending further analysis. The test would shut the well by closing off valves on a tight-sealing cap that was installed at the wellhead, 5,000 feet down and a few miles from this Coast Guard cutter. But Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who is overseeing the federal …