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  • Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

    Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...

  • Thousands run final mile of Boston Marathon

    Runners who were unable to finish the Boston Marathon on April 15 because of the bombings cross the finish line on Boylston Street after the city allowed them to finish the last mile of the race in Boston, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Winslow ...

  • Flag placing scheduled at Bourne cemetery

    RAYNHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The father of a Medal of Honor winner from Massachusetts is again planning to place thousands of U.S. flags on graves at the Bourne National ...

  • Massachusetts veteran to spend Memorial Day remembering his military pilot wife

    A Massachusetts veteran is planning to spend this Memorial Day remembering his Black Hawk pilot wife, who was killed in Afghanistan less than four months after they were married. Chris Cullen married his wife Sara in November 2012 after resigning from his Army job last March so that they could be together, MyFoxBoston.com reported. But on March 11, 2013, "basically, my world ...

  • Dartmouth gets $10 million to expand study abroad

    HANOVER, N.H. (AP) - Dartmouth College plans to use a $10 million alumnus donation to expand its study abroad and other international education ...


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The Golden Age of Television [DVD]

The Golden Age of Television [DVD]

On May 9, 1961, Newton Minow, then chair of the Federal Communications Commission, delivered a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., that will forever be known as the Vast Wasteland Speech. In it, Minow excoriated the three maj ... ...

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  • Conn. residents to march against Monsanto

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - More than 100 Connecticut residents expected to participate in a ‘‘March Against Monsanto’’ in downtown ...

  • Conn. veterans receive home repairs

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Nearly 100 volunteers are set to help two Connecticut veterans and a military widow repair and renovate their homes in Berlin, New Britain and ...

  • NH ag-based exports eligible for grants

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire companies that produce agricultural-based products - from beer to lotions - are eligible to receive a grant that could help them enter or expand their export ...

  • Hundreds running Boston Marathons final mile

    BOSTON -; Hundreds of runners are joining victims of the Boston Marathon bombings to finish the last mile of the race, reclaiming the triumph of crossing the finish line after explosives went off while many athletes were still ...

  • Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan

    FILE - In this April 26, 2013, file photo police officers stand by as Muslims leave the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., which was attended occasionally by Tamerlan Tsarnaev for Friday prayers, according to Islamic Society of Boston leaders. Within hours of the blasts at the Boston marathon, government officials and members of Boston’s Muslim community called each other, ...

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