Only 2 bidders for Mass. commuter rail pact

The lack of competition for the $1 billion-plus contract to operate the state’s commuter rail system is raising concerns that costs could increase or services could weaken for commuters.

A man outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek reacted to the shooting.

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Gunman kills 6 in Sikh temple in Wisconsin

In what police called an act of domestic terrorism, a gunman killed at least six and injured three others at a temple near Milwaukee before being shot and killed by police.

Harpreet Singh shown in Madison, Wis., in 2010.

Grafton man central to response of Wisconsin temple

Shortly after Harpreet Singh learned about the shooting at the Sikh temple, anxious inquiries started pouring in from Sikhs in the Milwaukee area.

Mitt Romney ad in Spanish attacks health care law

The Republican’s vow to end “Obamacare’’ is a bold and risky message he continues to deliver to Latino voters, who overwhelmingly back the federal health care law.

With two events remaining, Gabrielle Douglas already owns two Olympic golds.

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Gabrielle Douglas makes chances count at Olympics

The 16-year-old Virginia native is looking to become the first female gymnast to win four gold medals at one Games since Czech immortal Vera Caslavska in 1968.

Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100

It was the same result in the men’s 100-meter final on Sunday as it was four years ago in Beijing. Bolt is the unquestioned World’s Fastest Man.

“We have more backup systems in terms of weapons systems than we actually have deployed,” General Norton A. Schwartz, chief of staff of the Air Force, told the Globe in a recent interview. “Some of that is a reasonable hedge [but] there is probably room for reductions.’’

US general asks cut in nuclear stockpile

General Norton A. Schwartz, the chief of the Air Force, says the backup arsenal is more than the nation needs and is steadily becoming more expensive to maintain and secure.

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center

Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center is facing a near-mutiny from frustrated staff and pressure from state regulators to improve its standard of care.

Alumna Erica Jawin (left) and astronomy professor Darby Dyar at work in a Mount Holyoke College laboratory.

Labs gear up to handle data from Mars rover

Local laboratories are poised to help scientists decipher the streams of data expected over the next two years from NASA’s latest Mars mission.

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Globe exclusives

Brenda Manning with her son, Brian, 11, who recently underwent a hemispherectomy to try to stop his epileptic seizures.

G Cover

Surgery no longer a last resort in treating epilepsy
Following a car accident involving the band’s original bassist, Deftones are touring again and will release a new album in October.

Deftones bounce back after tragedy strikes
The GLANSER sends location data back to a command post.

Firefighter tracker to be unveiled
Sean Cullen and Elisabeth Waterston in the production.

Stage review

Time passes slowly in ‘A Month in the Country’
Dianne Reeves performing on Saturday at Newport.

Music Review

Diversity in style, substance at Newport jazz fest
Hatchery manager Mickey Novak held up a female salmon at the Sunderland hatchery where the fish are mated.

US bid to return salmon to Connecticut River ends
Glenn W. Martin grows marijuana openly in a small greenhouse in Montville, Maine.

Maine a case study in medical marijuana
New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr.

Sunday Football Notes

Pete Carmichael Jr. one reason Saints have a prayer
Zhao Yunlei (left) and Tian Qing of China gave it their all in a thrilling victory over Japan in the gold-medal match.

Bob Ryan

Badminton finale thrilling, not controversial
The Olympic cauldron is lit during the Danny Boyle-directed Opening Ceremony for the London Games.

arts

A critic’s first Olympics
The author’s son, Alex Filipov, with an illustration in their Hard Days Night Hotel room.

Travel

Touring Liverpool with a Beatlemaniac son
Cat Cho of Sydney paddled around the Ram Island Lighthouse, built in 1883, on a Maine Kayak excursion.

4 ways to get on the water in New England

Sports

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Red Sox 6, Twins 4

Franklin Morales, who threw 106 pitches, needed to be the stopper at a time when the Sox were sinking fast.

Franklin Morales helps Red Sox avoid sweep

Morales pitched six strong innings in a 6-4 Red Sox win over the Twins, but there was concern over a bullpen that’s beginning to wear thin.

Metro

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Carlos Fernandes laid flooring in a new house at a once-troubled site on Woodcliff Street in Roxbury.

Breathing new life into Boston’s trouble spots

A neighborhood response initiative is giving rise to new dwellings in Boston areas that have grappled with crime and drug use.

Columnists

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The $600,000 budget thorn

james carroll

Dark fantasy in action

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
First lady Michelle Obama campaigns in Manchester, N.H., Thursday.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

This time, Mass. gives Obama little help in N.H.
Bicyclists and pedestrians travel in Stockholm, where traffic has decreased significantly since the city started charging drivers a fee to enter congested areas.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Finding the cure for traffic

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Dropbox’s tale speaks to a Bay State weakness
Roger Federer put in a long workday, taking more than four hours to eliminate Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.

Bob Ryan

Federer wins an Olympic classic at Wimbledon

Adrian Walker

Gregory Sullivan, crusading inspector general, calls it a career

LAWRENCE HARMON

Energy czar put the green in Boston
Tom Brady waves (left) to some of the many fans attending Patriots practice Friday wishing him well on his 35th birthday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady’s 35th birthday presents a dilemma

Brian McGrory

Children’s Hospital plans may mark end for Prouty Garden

Business

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Mars landing had different challenges this time

The robotic explorer Curiosity steered itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet’s past.

Politics

Political Notebook

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Huffington Post last Tuesday that a former investor in Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, told him that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee paid no taxes for 10 years.

Battle heats up over question of Romney tax payments

Republicans on Sunday denounced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for claiming to have inside information that Mitt Romney paid no taxes for a decade.

Nation & World

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Victim Kerry Lewis reacted to a guilty verdict in a 2010 case against a Portland, Ore., Boy Scout leader.

Boy Scout files reveal repeated child sex abuse

Suspected molesters remained in the Boy Scouts of America organization in more than 125 cases and allegedly continued to abuse scouts, files show.

Arts

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Book Review

“Monkey Mind” by Daniel Smith.

‘Monkey Mind’ by Daniel Smith

The memoir, which chronicles the author’s long struggle with chronic anxiety, puts a spin on it that elicits both absurd hilarity and deep compassion.

Health and wellness

G Force

“The pharmaceutical industry is basically giving up and throwing in the towel,” Dr. Steven E. Hyman said. “Their exit is both a symptom of the difficulty and a problem.”

Learning how to treat mental disorders

Dr. Steven E. Hyman, a neuroscientist and former Harvard provost, now directs the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.

“Little girls would come up and say, hey, I want your autograph, I want your picture. I was like, ‘wow, am I really that good?’ ”

American gymnast Gabrielle Douglas 

Magazine

The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Me vs. the Woodchuck
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World

Opinion

“What macho fantasy is being indulged by the casual possession of lethal firearms? And what taboo is being weakened when they become ubiquitous?”

James Carroll 

Ideas

“If Willen is right, then the finger-pointing that’s occurred since the financial meltdown is all beside the point. Instead, we need to accept the frightening fact that when an economic delusion takes hold, none of us may be able to tell.”

Leon Neyfakh, on a Federal Reserve economist bearing very bad news