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Using technology to battle PTSD
Before returning to treatment, former Army bomb technician Brian Sullivan used a smartphone app to cope with PTSD.

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Veterans are finding new allies in their fight against war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder: online programs and mobile phone apps.

Dorothy Wolferseder (center) with her son, Scott, and her former daughter-in-law, Erica Arsenault, in Fitchburg.

Woman donates kidney to former mother-in-law

When she learned the mother of her former husband needed a kidney, Erica Arsenault immediately volunteered to find out if she were a compatible donor.

Carl Crawford backpedals to the warning track to haul in a ball hit by Eric Chavez to end the first.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s time for Red Sox to look to the future

No one is going to hammer the organization if it starts making moves with an eye toward 2013. This starts with letting Carl Crawford have his Tommy John surgery.

Kevin Kit Parker, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a professor at Harvard, chatted with Springfield police Lieutenant Rupert Daniel.

To counter gangs, Springfield adopts tactics from war zones

US soldiers’ strategies to stop insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have found a new application in an odd place: the tough neighborhoods of Springfield.

Latest news

 

Romney raps Obama on Medicare in N.H.

Speaking to thousands of New Hampshire voters in a Town Hall-style meeting, Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan accused President Obama of distorting the GOP ticket’s policies.

In Missouri, conservative Republican Todd Akin is running against Democrat incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill for a US Senate seat.

Brown calls on Akin to drop out of Missouri Senate race

US Representative Todd Akin of Missouri, who is running for US Senate, said women’s bodies can prevent pregnancies in “a legitimate rape.”

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The home of the Masters is admitting Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore, 10 years after critics first protested its lack of female members.

Tony Scott was known for his hyper-kinetic action and editing on such films as his most recent, the runaway train thriller ‘‘Unstoppable,’’ starring regular collaborator Denzel Washington.

Director Tony Scott dies after jumping off bridge

Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as ‘‘Top Gun’’ and ‘‘Beverly Hills Cop II,’’ died Sunday in an apparent suicide.

Warren, Brown’s no third-party ad pledge holds

A pact between Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren to prevent third-party ads in the race has survived, to the amazement of partisans around the US.

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The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, sailed under its own power Sunday to commemorate its victory in the War of 1812.

Stately under sail, Constitution evokes awe
Laya Lesley-Barnes, whose brother Rashad was among five people killed in the city last week, wept during a gathering at Franklin Field in Dorchester on Sunday as participants urged residents to unite for neighborhood safety.

Calls for change at Dorchester antiviolence rally
From left: Joey Pollari, Bubba Lewis, Zack Pearlman, and Mark L. Young are “The Inbetweeners.”

Television Review

MTV’s refreshing take on high school geekery

G Force

Taking the long view on toxic chemicals
Jackie Hoffman (left), Michael Tucker, and Jill Eikenberry in Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of David Epstein’s one-act “Brace Yourself.”

Stage Review

In ‘Brace Yourself,’ it’s Sunny and it’s dreary
Jennifer Brooke and Carolyn Meenan of The Good Ones.

The Makeover Issue: Tech

Fixing Boston’s hobnob problem
Craig and Rikki Carpenter enjoy the view from a sandbar in Bar Harbor, Maine. The town on the eastern side Mount Desert Island is a commercial and social hub.

living longer, living better

Three great N.E. destinations for scenery, food
Researchers exchanged thoughts at Cambridge’s Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, which has high hopes for a new drug to treat irritable bowel syndrome.

Ironwood prepares drug for irritable bowel syndrome

Sunday baseball notes

In the power game, managers have lost
Kristin Hersh says of her fans: “I never saw the people I was playing for. Now they talk to me on Twitter every day. They named my last solo record. They’re friends.’’

Hersh fans to be up to their ears in new music
The Cape’s natural beauty is a real draw. Pictured: The Cape’s natural beauty is a real draw.

Living Longer, Living Better

Cape Cod retirement home in sight again
Newest Celtic Jason Terry hopes to get a headstart on integrating himself into the team.

Sunday basketball notes

Jason Terry can’t wait to get started with Celtics

Sports

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Yankees 4, Red Sox 1

Yankees’ Ichiro Suzuki makes his way around the bases after the first of his two homers.

Yankees leave Josh Beckett, Red Sox reeling

After Sunday’s loss, the Sox are 13½ games behind the Yankees and 7½ games out in the wild-card race with 40 games left.

Metro

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Kanagala Seshadri Rao was killed on April 19 in Allston.

Father assails Allston slaying inquiry

The father of a slain BU graduate student from India said he has asked diplomats to press police for an arrest.

Columnists

Beantown Bedding cofounders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple.

Innovation Economy

Start-up creates disposable sheets for dorm beds

james carroll

Bridging the science gap

Adrian Walker

Desperate for answers after shocking murders
Carl Crawford backpedals to the warning track to haul in a ball hit by Eric Chavez to end the first.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s time for Red Sox to look to future
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, is shown in Manhattan with the Grand Central Terminal building in the background in 1962.

JOANNA WEISS

Sex and the conservatives’ matriarch

Jeff Jacoby

Immigration reform key to economic revival

JOAN VENNOCHI

Ray Flynn’s pitch to Catholics

Yvonne Abraham

Daly Field in Brighton is not our land

Dan Shaughnessy

Jon Lester is a keeper for Red Sox
The Rest Devices Infant Monitor can track an infant’s breathing, temperature, and movement and update parents wirelessly.

A new generation of tech entrepreneurs seeks to reinvent health care
Charlotte Rose Kelly of Braintree died last December.

Beverly Beckham

Life without Charlotte
Os Gemeos’ mural on the Greenway of a boy with a shirt on his head reminds some viewers of a terrorist.

opinion | lawrence harmon

In the eye of the beholder

Business

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Passengers in economy class might notice a tighter fit as carriers reduce legroom to squeeze in more travelers.

Airlines cut deeper into standard legroom

Legroom is going the way of checked bags, in-flight meals, and pillows — once-free amenities that now come at a cost.

Politics

Political Notebook

Joe Biden said the GOP was “going to put y’all back in chains.’’

Obama campaign supports Joe Biden on comment

The Obama campaign offered no apology Sunday for the vice president’s “chains” remark.

Nation & World

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Protesters carrying a Chinese national flag shouted slogans during an anti-Japan protest held in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province on Sunday.

Thousands in China join anti-Japan protests

The landing of Japanese activists on a disputed island Sunday sharply intensified tensions between the two countries.

Arts

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Art Review

A still from the video “Drawing a Line With the Tide.”

In ‘water, water,’ a collaborative ebb and flow

The mother-daughter artist team of Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty take collaboration as a theme at the Cape Ann Museum show.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Should junk food be regulated like alcohol?

Public health officials now believe our environment makes it nearly impossible to avoid overeating.

Living Longer, Living Better

Health

JoyceMor, a sleep technologist at Sleep Health Centers in Weymouth, prepares Talia Yourell of Weymouth for a sleep study.

For aging baby boomers, sleep gets harder to come by

As we age, medical conditions can make a good night’s rest elusive. But there are steps we can take.

“I didn’t even think about whether I should do this. I never thought of not doing it.”

Erica Arsenault,  on donating her kidney to her former mother-in-law

Magazine

The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

How Bain Capital is trying — reluctantly — to clean up its name
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms

Opinion

“Republicans should be running on restructuring the president’s Medicare cuts, and using consumer choice to blunt their impact.”

Josh Barro 

Ideas

“If the bill becomes law, the identities of people who die in Massachusetts--notably those who, like Bill Cosby, have built up bankable personas over the course of their lives--will become pieces of property that continue to exist long after they do.”

 Leon Neyfakh