Cities Like Boston Show Resolve After Attacks
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April 16 (Bloomberg) -- The April 15 bombings at the BostonMarathon show little of the evil genius displayed on Sept. 11,2001, only diabolical fiendishness. But the bombings occurred ata place, near the finish line, and a time, four hours after therace began, when crowds would be dense.
Terrorism needs targets, and urban environments or crowdedevents are always going to be tempting, whether the weapons arecrude pipe bombs, as in Boston and at the Summer Olympics inAtlanta in 1996, or the four jetliners on Sept. 11.