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      A moment that changed me: I survived the Boston marathon bombing – but broke down when I ran again

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 07:00 · 1 minute

    After witnessing the deadly attack, I struggled with daily life and lost my passion for running. At the Frankfurt marathon, six months later, the emotional toll caught up with me

    It was late 2013, six months after I had run the Boston marathon – the year two men detonated two bombs near the finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds . Back in Germany, my home country, I had been struggling with my mental health for months, but I was determined to complete another marathon and maybe make it back to Boston. I had signed up for that month’s Frankfurt marathon, but told nobody except Christina, my therapist.

    I went to the starting line only a couple of minutes before the race started. For the first half or so, I felt good. The sun was shining. My mind was empty and I was running faster than ever. Then I felt a breakdown coming on. I could no longer run. I walked the rest of the way, crying. People kept stopping to ask if I needed help, or to comfort me. I knew their intentions were good, but I felt as if I was in a different world. All I could think was: why am I here, running, when others were killed and many more had been injured and could never run again?

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      Airport K9 sniffs out mummified monkeys at Boston airport

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 February - 20:56

    Passenger returning from the DRC said luggage contained dried fish, but inspection revealed four dead monkeys

    A US customs and border protection dog has caused a stir at Boston ’s often bustling airport after sniffing out something unusual in luggage from a traveler returning from Africa: mummified monkeys.

    The passenger returning from a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported that the luggage contained dried fish. But an inspection at Boston Logan Airport revealed four dead monkeys whose bodies were dehydrated, agents said. The traveler said he brought the monkeys into the US for his own consumption, customs and border patrol spokesperson Ryan Bissette said Sunday.

    The Associated Press contributed reporting

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      Grant Holloway déjà impressionnant à Boston, Noah Lyles et Femke Bol aussi

      sport.movim.eu / LEquipe · Sunday, 5 February, 2023 - 10:20


    Grant Holloway (ici à Zurich) démarre fort sa saison en salle. (A. Martin/L'Équipe) Le recordman du monde en salle du 60 m haies a dominé son épreuve fétiche dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche à Boston (États-Unis) en s'approchant de sa meilleure marque. Dans le même meeting, Noah Lyles s'est imposé sur 60 m, alors que Femke Bol a battu la meilleure performance mondiale de l'histoire sur 500 m.
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      Here’s where traffic sucked the most in 2022

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 10 January, 2023 - 17:11 · 1 minute

    Traffic on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago at dusk, with the downtown skyline behind.

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    Did your commute get worse in 2022? Overall, congestion cost the country more than $81 billion, says transportation data company Inrix. It just published its Global Traffic Scorecard for the past year, and the data says the typical US driver spent 51 hours in traffic last year, 15 hours more than in 2021. And due to increased fuel prices and other inflation, the average driver paid $134 more for fuel last year than the year before—and that's in addition to $869 in lost time.

    Although it's not as severe as it was in 2020 or 2021 , it's still possible to see the effect of the pandemic in Inrix's data. In the US, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) increased by 1 percent year-on-year, but we still drove 9 percent fewer miles per year than before the pandemic. Interestingly, Inrix says this is due to more people continuing to work from home, which it says now accounts for 17.9 percent of Americans—before the pandemic, work from home accounted for only 5.7 percent of workers, according to the US Census Bureau.

    Sadly, road safety is still rather abysmal; the estimated fatality rate of 1.27 deaths per 100 million VMT is 17 percent higher than we saw in 2019, although there has been a slight reduction from 2021's high of 1.3 fatalities per 100 million VMT. And while some of the other trends found in the report exist in countries like the UK or Germany, the rise in road deaths appears to be unique to the US.

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      FLASH | L'université de #Boston a créé une nouvelle souche du #covid, qui a 80% de chance de tuer l’hôte infecté.

      eyome · Monday, 17 October, 2022 - 20:18

    Ah ! Là d'accord !

    D'après le Dr. Marty :

    Si on a un Covid qui a 80% de chance de tuer l'hôte et qu'on est vacciné avec un vaccin efficace à 95%, il reste encore 15% de marge.

    #France, #Politique, #Fr, #Covid, #CalculMental, #YenALaDedans, #MartyPasMcFly