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Regatta draws rowers, throngs to banks of the Charles — Gallery

Some of the world's best rowers convene at boathouses in Boston and Cambridge this weekend to engage in the 51st Head of the Charles Regatta, a two-day fest of brawn, stamina and skill with oar and helm that pits 11,000 athletes against one another and the unrelenting

Massachusetts

Cross-state canoe journey ends with call on GE to clean Housatonic

BOSTON — Paddling a canoe across Massachusetts with a message for the state's most prized new corporate arrival to clean up the Housatonic River, an environmentalist on Wednesday said he had seen improvements to the Bay State's waterways over the past three decades. Wearing a backwards camouflage

brazil

AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Olympic waters in this city are more widely contaminated by sewage than previously known and pose a greater threat to athletes' health ahead of next year's games, according to new results from tests commissioned by The Associated Press. Expanded analysis of Rio&