Carr was running in his sixth Boston Marathon, and his second to benefit the Boston Bruins Foundation.

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As noted by The State of Corporate Citizenship in the United States 2009, The Hitachi Foundation and Boston College, a good reputation is increasingly linked to bottom line benefits such as improved sales, license to operate, employee morale and productivity, and retention of top talent.

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The Boston-based International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) recommends that any child who has such sudden OCD-like symptoms be tested for strep or other active infections.

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Barry is the chief of the general medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.

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Mazzio's included a law degree from Georgetown University, a partner position at white-shoe firm Brown Rudnick in Boston and board-memberships at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the National Rowing Foundation.

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Julian Adams, a chemist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, came to a foundation dinner meeting Giusti had organized at the Boston Hilton with stunning data on a drug he had invented.

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"Soft drinks and sugar-containing beverages are the low hanging fruit in public health today, " says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, at Children's Hospital in Boston.

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"We would like to clarify that the picture circulating on the web and Twitter of a little girl wearing a Joe Cassella 5K bib claiming to have been killed at the Boston marathon is being used fraudulently, " read the page for the Joe Cassella Foundation.

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