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Boston University News Service • 15th April 2019

What’s the price tag for running the race?

Runners pass through Chestnut Hill during the 2018 Boston Marathon. Photo by Jordan Rice/BU News Service BOSTON — Boston Marathon organizer Boston Athletic Association, or BAA, lists two price tags on its marathon registration page: $200 for U.S. residents, $250 for those coming from abroad. But it takes more greenback for the 30,000-plus runners to reach the Boylston Street finish line on Monday. Susanna Kelland, 58, flew into Boston from Denver on Saturday — $400 for a roundtrip flight. Two

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Boston University News Service • 15th April 2019

11 years after the first midnight bike ride, event still an attraction

Greg Hum, standing in the foreground, originated the idea for a midnight night along the marathon route while a sophomore at BU. (Photo by Rachel Rock/BU News Service) BOSTON – Greg Hum came up with the idea for a midnight bike ride along the Boston Marathon route while he was a sophomore at Boston University in 2008. He proposed the ride to the others in his BU bike club after he overheard friends planning to do a nighttime run.

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Boston University News Service • 29th March 2019

Artificial intelligence program mimics medical experts’ eyes

BOSTON – An elderly diabetic patient shuffles into a small doctor’s office in Montana for a checkup after traveling for nearly an hour. This particular woman and doctor’s office are fictional, but such distance from a physician is not uncommon in rural areas, where general practitioners are scarce and specialists are almost non-existent. During the checkup, the doctor wants to screen the patient for diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes in which the blood vessels at the back of the e

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Boston University News Service • 29th January 2019

Opinion: Labaki tells it as it is in Oscar nominated ‘Capernaum’

BOSTON – “Capernaum” will leave you weeping in shame and discreetly trying to recover. Even the weak-hearted must see Nadine Labaki’s most recent and poignant epic, and to your dismay, there is no recovery. “Capernaum” is not a film – it is reality. It is everything that is ugly about Lebanon. It is a story about what goes unsaid and unseen in this Levantine country. Though “Capernaum” borrows its name from an ancient biblical city condemned to hell, it is inevitable that one will recognize the