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Missouri Rep. fights to save GOP Senate bid

Republicans turned against Representative Todd Akin after his comments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of ‘‘legitimate rape.’’

Bob McClure, left, spoke with pitcher Junichi Tazawa as teammates Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Will Middlebrooks, and Dustin Pedroia looked on in the ninth inning of a game against the Blue Jays July 21.

Red Sox fire pitching coach Bob McClure

McClure and manager Bobby Valentine had a chilly relationship that only recently began to thaw.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1773844986001-3979--90x90.jpg Carl Crawford to have season-ending surgery Thursday

The move has been long expected and means the outfielder could be ready to play by Opening Day next season.

In N.H., Romney and Ryan blast Obama’s health law

Speaking before some 3,000 attendees at a Town Hall-style event, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan said the Republican ticket would be more likely to put Medicare on sounder footing.

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Patriots come up short at Gillette Stadium

The Patriots gave the night off to Tom Brady, Wes Welker and many other starters in the team’s second preseason game.

Brian Hoyer looked downfield as the Eagles’ Darryl Tapp took aim.

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Brian Hoyer looked downfield as the Eagles’ Darryl Tapp took aim.

Deion Branch tried to shake Kurt Coleman after a catch in the first quarter.

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Deion Branch tried to shake Kurt Coleman after a catch in the first quarter.

Michael Vick looked for an open man in the first quarter.

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Michael Vick looked for an open man in the first quarter.

Ryan Mallett of the Patriots felt pressure from Phillip Hunt.

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Ryan Mallett of the Patriots felt pressure from Phillip Hunt.

Michael Vick was escorted off the field in the first quarter with a rib injury after being sacked by Patriots linebacker Jermaine Cunningham.

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Michael Vick was escorted off the field in the first quarter with a rib injury after being sacked by Patriots linebacker Jermaine Cunningham.

Patriots tight end Alex Silvestro was brought down by the Eagles’ DeMeco Ryan in the first quarter.

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Patriots tight end Alex Silvestro was brought down by the Eagles’ DeMeco Ryan in the first quarter.

The Patriots Dont’a Hightower tackled LeSean McCoy.

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The Patriots Dont’a Hightower tackled LeSean McCoy.

tuesday preview | Appreciation

Tony Scott, signature ‘80s filmmaker

Tony Scott wasn’t the most influential or enduring filmmaker of the 1980s, but his gleaming, testosterone-driven movies set a standard.

‘‘She died peacefully in her sleep with a smile on her face,’’ her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, told The Associated Press.

Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95

Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday morning in Los Angeles.

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Bridging the science gap

When scientists are cut off from the broader culture, both sides are impoverished.

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Taking the Transition for a spin in driving mode.

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Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?

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Who owns you after you die?
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
Before returning to treatment, former Army bomb technician Brian Sullivan used a smartphone app to cope with PTSD.

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Using technology to battle PTSD
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
Rabbi Barry Silver, who leads a reform synagogue in Lake Worth, Fla., says he has noticed less support for the president.

Obama’s vital Jewish backing slips in Fla.
Kevin Kit Parker, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a professor at Harvard, chatted with Springfield police Lieutenant Rupert Daniel.

Counterinsurgency lessons used in Springfield
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
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

Sunday baseball notes

In the power game, managers have lost
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

Sports

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Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine and Kelly Shoppach never saw eye to eye.

In Red Sox blame game, there are no winners

Kelly Shoppach said he didn’t start the texting campaign against manager Bobby Valentine, but who cares? The ex-Sox catcher isn’t that important.

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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.

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.

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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

Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren hailed the work of the pact that they reached. Brown called it a mark of “two good people.”

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

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

Nation & World

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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 in apparent suicide

Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as ‘‘Top Gun’’ and ‘‘Beverly Hills Cop II,’’ died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said.

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