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SUV's GPS Device Helped Capture Boston Bombing Suspects
KickingTiresLate in the evening on April 18, Boston marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carjacked a black Mercedes-Benz SUV in Cambridge, Mass. Its driver escaped shortly after midnight on April 19; the ensuing saga left one suspect dead,...Tags: Apple iPhone, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Manufacturing and Engineering, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Want To Start A 'Neighbor Brigade' In CT?
Quite awhile ago, I clipped an article out of People Magazine because I was intrigued by one of it's features in the "Heroes Among Us" section. The story profiled the creator of a group called the Neighbor Brigade. When Pam Washek was fighting cancer,...
Tags: People (magazine)
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Boston Marathon bombing: Tomorrow, resilience; today, despair
It is hard not to give in to despair. In the hours since bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, forever marking in blood a day that celebrates spring, our nation's founding and the joy of the human body, there has been a lot of talk...
Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Road Running, Politics, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Obama beats up the media; media returns favor
If President Obama was the darling of that so-called liberal media, he is certainly its biggest enemy today. Instead, he’s basically a lame duck pariah who now has the full attention of every broadcast analyst, Internet blogger and newspaper...
Tags: Interior Policy, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Politics, Criminals
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Sports No Salvation For Alleged Bomber
The Hartford CourantAfter a marathon that danced with joy and ended in horror, surely we see what sports can mean to a city. By now, after pregame tributes marked by an anthem singer's fist pumps and the most appropriate f-bomb in New England history, yes, we see how...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wrestling, TD Garden, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sean Collier
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Like Cubs, Astros building from bottom up
Like his bosses, Mike Foltynewicz is a baseball optimist. He can see the Astros rising out of the ashes they find themselves in at the beginning of the Jim Crane era. "In three or four years, we're going to be a fun team,'' said Foltynewicz, a 21-year-...
Tags: Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, National League, Mark Appel, Grapefruit League
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Brain damage and the Boston bombing
When it came out that suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a former Golden Gloves boxer, I wondered if there might be a connection. It's not that boxers are necessarily violent people outside the ring, but boxers are subject to brain damage...
Tags: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
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Cry of 'Oh, my God' resounds nationwide
Soon after the explosions, there appeared on the website of The Boston Globe a video of the moment. Runners in the city's iconic marathon are jogging across the finish line and everyone is cheering, when there is a clap of thunder and an orange bloom of...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Road Running, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Running, Entertainment Events
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INKED! To stay free, we assume great risk
As long as we are free, we will never truly be safe. That’s just the way it has to be if we are to keep our freedom. It’s not a new concept. One of the leading architects of this nation, Benjamin Franklin, said as much: “They who...
Tags: Sports, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A Wary But Resilient Boston Keeps It Together, Defies Blasts That Tried To Tear It Apart
The Hartford CourantThe bombs did not stop a field trip of first-graders from making a picnic lunch on the sidewalk outside the Old South Meeting House Tuesday afternoon. No, the gruesome pressure cooker devices did not dissuade a Kansas City couple from setting out for...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Road Running, Deval Patrick, Running, Thomas Menino
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Terrorism can only be defeated by resiliency
Ten years ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a cafe in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem. Seven people were killed, including David Applebaum, an American-born emergency-room doctor who had treated countless victims of...Tags: Sports, Road Running, Terrorism, Running, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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At Boston Marathon finish, a dreadful feeling returns
Terrorism returned to domestic soil on Monday, and a horrified nation watched. Two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, restarting a flood of emotions hauntingly familiar to anyone who lived through Sept. 11, 2001. The nauseating...Tags: Summer Olympics, Sports, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), St. Patrick's Day, Road Running
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