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"Sur le fond, l'association s'est notamment appuyée sur les travaux d'un chercheur d'une université voisine, qui soutient le mouvement. "Ils ont attiré l'attention et ouvert la discussion sur les complexités de la candidature. Même si Boston restait dans la course, la candidature serait moins chère et moins destructrice que sans eux", estimait ainsi le chercheur Andrew Zimbalist, avant le retrait de la candidature. Spécialiste de l'économie du sport, il a travaillé spécifiquement sur les faibles retombées économiques des grands évènements sportifs pour les pays et villes qui les accueillent. No Boston Olympics reprend ainsi de larges parties de ses analyses pour démontrer que même si les promoteurs et grosses entreprises locales promettaient de financer le projet, le coût de plusieurs dizaines de milliards de dollars risquait d'être assumé par la collectivité, au moins en partie."

"The City of Boston had extra security at the Boston Marathon today, with 4,000 uniformed and plainclothes police officers and 100 police dog units lining the 26.2-mile course-twice as many as last year's event, when two bombs that exploded near the finish line killed three and wounded 260. Low-flying helicopters were keeping watch from above, while a radiation-seeking chopper flew over the course, trying to pick up spikes in radiation levels that weren't there during its initial flyby on Thursday. But what's missing-at least as far as we know-is a security measure that some experts say will become inevitable in time: drones. "Drones are going to be the standard," says Joseph F. King, a criminal justice professor at Manhattan's John Jay College who has served as chief of the national security section in New York's Department of Homeland Security office. Sprawling, citywide events such as marathons present a particularly thorny security problem, King says. "You can't just set up roadblocks and search everybody going to the marathon," he says. "You're talking about a dense population; it's as simple as crowd control. If you put in a drone, you can zero in a camera on a particular individual. The operator can directly contact the local sector sergeant and say, 'move officers here.''"

"But something is changing. By 2012, the river earned a B+, according to William Walsh-Rogalski, an attorney for EPA's Boston-based Region 1. It's even clean enough, apparently, to swim in. Last Saturday, the Charles River Conservancy hosted the first recreational swim in the Charles River since public swimming was banned in the 1950s. In groups of about two dozen, 144 swimmers jumped off a dock along the city's Esplanade park and splashed around in an enclosed swimming area.   "

"he Massachusetts city has received seven and a half feet of snow since late January, and with little else to do, snowbound residents are taking advantage"