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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Competitors make their way from the finish area at the London Marathon, London, Sunday April 25, 2010.(Tom Hevezi/AP)

A sports security specialist says to expect more crowd surveillance, in addition to heightened security at the London Marathon on Sunday, as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Ambrose Burfoot, center, a Wesleyan University senior from Groton, Ct., winner of the 72nd annual B.A.A. Marathon is congratulated by Johnny Kelley, left, also of Groton, after finishing 15th, and John Kelley, of Watertown, Mass., in the dressing room in Boston, April 19, 1968. (AP)

Amby Burfoot was running the Boston Marathon on Monday to mark the 45th anniversary of his winning the race. He’s among thousands of runners who didn’t finish, due to the bombing.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Karyn Miller-Medzon takes water from her son Noah at mile 17 of the Boston Marathon. (Medzon family photo)

Our colleague and avid marathoner Karyn Miller-Medzon explains why the bombings won’t deter her next year.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
An unidentified Boston Marathon runner leaves the course crying near Copley Square following an explosion in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. (Winslow Townson/AP)

For years, Alex Ashlock has covered the Boston Marathon for WBUR. He was along the course Monday, but instead of covering the post-race celebration, he ended up reporting on a crime scene.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Medical personnel work outside the medical tent in the aftermath of two blasts which exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Nurse Kim Giroux was volunteering at a Boston Marathon medical tent at the time of the bombing. She tells us that she’d been trained for this situation, but had never seen wounds like this.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
A Boston police officer wheels in injured boy down Boylston Street as medical workers carry an injured runner following an explosion during the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria at the marathon’s finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Sports reporter Shira Springer was covering the Boston Marathon yesterday. She also covered the London Olympics, and tells us about the security challenges at major sporting events.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks as Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, middle, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, far right, listen at a news conference in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013 regarding two bombs which exploded in the street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 130. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Continuing our coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, we speak with Devlin Barrett, who covers the FBI for The Wall Street Journal, and updates us on the investigation.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Here & Now's Robin Young recalls cheering on Bill Rodgers of the Greater Boston Track Club as he approached the finish line to win the Boston Marathon on April 21, 1975. (AP)

Here & Now host Robin Young shares her thoughts on the bombing at the Boston Marathon, and recalls the wonderful experiences of Patriots’ Days of years past.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The fire at the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester, which broke out around the same time as the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (@fr33man95/Twitter)

Continuing our coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, we speak with homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem, who dispels rumors about a Saudi suspect and “multiple devices” at the finish line.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Boston Medical Center. (Wikimedia Commons)

Boston Medical Center emergency physician Ron Medzon was on the front lines of treating people who were injured in the Boston Marathon explosions on Monday.

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Monday, June 17, 2013
Cancer patient Lynne Lobel, 47, watches a television program as she gets chemotherapy treatment at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, September 2005. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.

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Friday, June 14, 2013
Paul Eisenstein is publisher of "The Detroit Bureau."

We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
The sun sets behind the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant in Emmett, Kan. in December 2012. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.

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