Patriots' Day, a Massachusetts holiday commemorating the RevolutionaryWar Battles of Lexington and Concord, is also the date of theannual Boston Marathon, a 42-km footrace. It was first run in1897, one year after members of the Boston Athletic Associationreturned from the reincarnation of the Olympic Games in Greece.
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As traditional as the marathon itself is the use of the eventfor research and of its runners as research subjects. In thesecond year of its existence, two physicians, Harold Williamsand Horace D. Arnold, examined urine specimens from some ofthe runners and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Levine is a professor of cardiology and the director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Thompson is the director of the preventive cardiology program, Division of Preventive Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn.
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