3 lives of joy, hope cut short in an instant

Parents and friends recounted the longtime friendship and deep bond between the three women slain in Sunday night’s shootings on Harlem Street in Dorchester.

Health law benefits some Mass. hospitals, penalizes others

Several provisions buried in the state’s new 350-page cost-control health care law target specific hospitals.

Molly Baldwin worked with Anisha Chablani Medley at the Roca Inc. office in Chelsea. Baldwin founded Roca, a nonprofit targeted toward high-risk youth.

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Nonprofits working to quantify the good they do

Organizations that previously relied on instinct are gathering more data, seeking outside analysis, and tracking their effectiveness to improve their programs — and prove their worth.

MBTA data team member Sam Hickey, sat at a workstation inside the MBTA operations center on High Street.

MBTA begins rollout of long-awaited countdown signs

The arrival times, ticking down in one-minute increments, will appear on LED signs that have displayed only the date, time, and announcements since 2007.

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, right, talks with, from left, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz and first base coach Alex Ochoa in the dugout before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Soul-searching sessions for Red Sox

Red Sox owners held meetings — with manager Bobby Valentine and with players — during which some expressed concern about the state of the team and their relationship with the manager.

Gymnasts practiced at the Brestyan’s American Gymnastics Club, where parents rushed to sign up their children for classes the morning after Aly Raisman took gold in the team competition.

Olympiad inspires a wave of aspiring athletes

Local gyms and training centers are already feeling the post-Olympiad rush, as young athletes and their parents look to replicate Team USA’s success at home.

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On what would have been her 100th birthday, the influence of the cookbook author and television chef remains strong within Boston’s culinary community.

Rupert Murdoch (left) and Michael Bloomberg discussed immigration policies during a panel discussion in Boston on Tuesday night.

Murdoch, Bloomberg push immigration overhaul

Media titan Rupert Murdoch and New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, came to Boston to press their case for making it easier for immigrants to legally come to the US.

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Mo Farah and Usain Bolt demonstrate each other’s signature move after each won a gold medal in their respective events.

Photo gallery

Bests and worsts of the London Olympics
Bruce Springsteen (left) and his multitalented right-hand man, Steven Van Zandt, performing recently in New York.

E Street Band’s Little Steven hits the big time
Representative Paul Ryan (left), ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, appeared with Senator Judd Gregg, ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committeeat a news conference in 2009 to discuss President Obama’s fiscal 2010 federal budget.

Ryan sought stimulus funds while decrying program

Aly Raisman of Needham received a gold medal in women’s gymnastics floor exercise at the London Olympics.

Raisman, team ready for talk shows
“Flushing Meadow” is one of Philip Jones’s nocturnal urban images.

Photography review

Looking out and in at the Photographic Resource Center
Carrying a trademark fungo bat, Johnny Pesky salutes the crowd on Sept. 28, 2008, when the Red Sox retired his No. 6 at Fenway Park.

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Johnny Pesky dead at 92
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Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky dies
Kenya Jackson swallows his morning dose of HIV medication.

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Community health workers help HIV patient change attitude, life
Peter Houk has been director of the MIT glass lab since 1997.

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Glassblowing is hot at MIT

editorial

Appalachian Trail, at 75, is a portal to the natural world

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years
Boston.com has hired six former WFNX staffers, including Henry Santoro, to staff RadioBDC.

RadioBDC goes live — online and via apps

Sports

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Orioles 7, Red Sox 1

Shortstop Mike Aviles (front) and second baseman Dustin Pedroia couldn’t come up with an infield grounder during the Orioles’ five-run sixth inning.

Orioles crush Red Sox in series opener

Josh Beckett had yet another poor outing, while the team’s batters left 12 men on base and went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position.

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Senator Scott Brown, and his wife, Gail Huff, greeted guests at Lombardo’s in Randolph Tuesday before his address.

Warren and Brown trade charges on their tax stands

Scott Brown accused rival Elizabeth Warren of seeking to impose “the largest tax hike since World War II,” a charge Warren disputes.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

Unbaby.me, the hipsters, and the Ryan Plan
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (L) attend a memorial service for six people killed in an attack the day before on a Wisconsin Sikh temple on August 6, 2012 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin -- a temple just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the scene of the August 5 bloodshed -- to honor the six people killed and three critically wounded in what police are calling a

Farah Stockman

A culture of hate

Adrian Walker

TSA employees had to go outside system to report profiling

Tech Lab Plus

German tech gets teeth ultra-clean
Mitt Romney will no longer be able to hide behind strategic ambiguity about his budget and tax cut plans with Paul Ryan as his running mate.

opinion | Scot Lehigh

With Ryan, Romney faces tougher sell to undecided voters
Kyra Sedgwick has a few of her emotionally devastating moments in tonight’s “Closer” series finale.

Critic’s Notebook

A eulogy for TNT’s ‘The Closer’
Xian Wen Li said he was among those cheated by May Woo of Sky Energy Travel in Chinatown.

Yvonne Abraham

Chinatown travel agency gives immigrants a tough lesson

Dan Shaughnessy

A few thoughts come bobbing up

JOAN VENNOCHI | welfare and the election

An old wedge issue returns in the campaign

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Why should we beg anyone to vote?

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years

LAWRENCE HARMON

Does anthrax risk end at city limits?

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Kevin Blanchard served in Iraq.

Effort aims to land returning veterans in medical device jobs

AdvaMed 2012, the medical device convention set for October in Boston, will launch a program designed to increase the hiring of US veterans returning to civilian life.

Politics

Only professional videos such as this one are featured on campaign websites despite efforts to reach out to voters.

Campaigns’ calls for voter videos going unanswered

The presidential campaigns are seeking homemade videos to showcase grass-roots support for their candidates, but voters are not responding.

Nation & World

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Fighting continued in Aleppo Tuesday, with Syria’s rebels trying to hold contested areas.

Syria’s former prime minister says Assad government is crumbling

The former official, who fled the country last week, said the Syrian government was crumbling internally under the relentless rebels and betrayals by loyalists.

Arts

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Wednesday Preview | Movie Review

From left: CJ Adams, Jennifer Garner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Joel Edgerton in “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.”

A kids’ movie with a strained message for parents

CJ Adams is likeable as the title character in “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” but the movie’s really about the fears and neuroses of parents.

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Professor Nancy Cott (above) says the sympsosium on Julia Child will take a holistic approach.

Julia Child turns 100 at Radcliffe

For her centenary, the library is sponsoring a symposium Sept. 21, free and open to the public.

“Though Julia was a national star, Bostonians considered her their own. Because her number was listed, anyone could call and ask cooking advice. At a Thanksgiving dinner I attended, she spent the afternoon and evening talking to local cooks worried about their turkey.”

Sheryl Julian,  on Julia Child

Magazine

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Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
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25 best burgers around Boston

Opinion

“There is a growing sense, even from the hipsters, that one person’s entitlement is somebody else’s personal burden.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“The changing ways we’ve seen summer reading — first as an indulgence, then as a vice, and now, somewhat surprisingly, as a source of pride — says a lot about our changing attitudes toward just what leisure should be.”

Craig Fehrman