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Israeli troupe runs on its own special fuel

The members of Vertigo Dance Company defy logic by appearing to defy gravity.

Nitsan Margaliot, left, and Eyal Vizner in Vertigo Dance Company’s performance of “Mana” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Christopher Duggan

Nitsan Margaliot, left, and Eyal Vizner in Vertigo Dance Company’s performance of “Mana” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Billowing costumes helped the dancers look like modern-day monks.

Christopher Duggan

Billowing costumes helped the dancers look like modern-day monks.

The dancers leaned into, pushed off, or were catapulted over each other with frequency and ease.

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The dancers leaned into, pushed off, or were catapulted over each other with frequency and ease.

The dancers frequently rocked side to side, ready to spring in any direction.

Taylor Crichton

The dancers frequently rocked side to side, ready to spring in any direction.

Artistic director Noa Wertheim, like the dancers themselves, hails from Israel.

Taylor Crichton

Artistic director Noa Wertheim, like the dancers themselves, hails from Israel.

Taylor Crichton

"Mana" gets its name from an Aramaic word that describes a vessel of light, metaphorically a source of power.

Clockwise from top left: Denovan Blake practices his swing on the sideline; Purak Oza, Kathir Kuppan, Sumeer Goel, and Ahsan Irshad watch the action from a wall; Norris Campbell winds up to make a throw. Donnohue Clarke makes contact during a game.

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Cricketeers get their wicket fix in Dorchester

On a bumpy field at the Harambee Park complex, fans of the arcane sport of cricket come together each weekend from May until October.

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They’ve dwarfed us in size, eclipsed us in culture, and dominated us on the diamond. And now they’re coming for the one thing we have left: Our smarts.

Navy SEAL Parachute Team Chief Brad Woodard sprayed smoke while parachuting down to the Boston Common.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, July 6, 2012

The best photos taken this week by Globe staff photographers, as chosen by the Globe’s photo desk.

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Analysis

For Obama, a jobs report that keeps stinging

President Obama has four more Friday jobs reports before November, and his reelection path will get increasingly difficult if they turn out like today’s.

Flight to Boston diverted, lands in N.Y.

A Delta Connection flight traveling from Norfolk, Va., to Boston was diverted to JFK International Airport Friday due to an instrument problem, officials said.

Mug shot of Myles Connor.

Notorious art thief arrested in R.I. cellphone heist

Myles Connor, 69, who at one time was suspected of having information on the Gardner Museum theft, was arrested for allegedly robbing two women outside a store.

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Farms across the state are stepping up their efforts to attract customers for their roadside stands, including (clockwise from up- per left) a strawberry festival and hayrides at Wilson Farm in Lexington and arrays of produce at Volante Farms in Needham.

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Farm stands and farmers markets offer much more
Women’s professional soccer is still coming to grips with two failed leagues and being labeled a niche sport.

Is there a future for women’s pro soccer?
A knife sharpener was a common sight of the streets of Boston in the decade leading up to the 1940 Census.

Census records bring 1940s Boston to life
Tourists on the Fort Independence on Thursday viewed tall ships berthed at Fish Pier for Navy Week festivities.

Boston business boomed during holiday week
Efforts to provide an ideal environment for the birds led to the nest building and egg laying, a zoo official said.

Hummingbird lays egg at Franklin Park Zoo
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” stars Quvenzhané Wallis as a girl living in a small hamlet on the coast of Louisiana in the days before and after Katrina.

Movie Review

‘Beasts’ a four-star fable
Homes like this one in Wellesley are putting an end to the idea that prefabs are boxy, cheaply made structures.

Prefab homes go upscale, with prices to match
“In the Still of the Night” by Carmen Cicero.

Art Review

Harrison and Cicero on exhibit in Provincetown
Chandler Studios Boston, a 12-room property in the South End, will be Boston’s newest hotel when it opens in August.

Hundreds of hotel rooms planned for Boston
Lupone kicked off the “Broad­­way at the Art House’’ series.

Stage Review

Patti LuPone delivers vocal fireworks in Provincetown
Tasty Burger’s cheeseburgers.

Boston swept up by burger boom
The new Nexus 7 tablet.

Tech Lab

Google Nexus tablet comes out on top

Sports

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Roger Federer is looking to win a record-tying seventh Wimbledon title.

Roger Federer, Andy Murray into Wimbledon final

Federer, who beat defending champ Novak Djokovic, will seek a record 7th title. Murray is the first British man in the final in 74 years.

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Episcopal Bishops Thomas Shaw (left) and Gene Robinson marched in this year’s gay pride parade in Boston

Episcopalians review a new rite for gay unions

Episcopalians are expected to overwhelmingly approve trial use of a new liturgy for blessing same-sex unions.

Columnists

MITT ROMNEY

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Avoiding risk with the Romney Fog Machine

Opinion | SCOT LEHIGH

Former hitchhiker recalls a more trusting past

CARLO ROTELLA

Put down the phone; real life abounds

Boston Capital

Time to cut off Boston Beer’s investors

Juliette Kayyem

Immigrants, native-born see eye to eye
Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney took to a jet ski on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Monday.

Joan Vennochi

Romney on a jet ski — his Kerry moment?

Scot Lehigh

We need more statues

Jeff Jacoby

Celebrating, royal-free

Yvonne Abraham

Nonprofit came to family’s aid

Boston Capital

Stock pickers need years to regain trust
Ma Ying-jeou, now president of Taiwan, rallied supporters in 2006.

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How a Harvard rivalry changed Taiwan

Juliette Kayyem

The politics of disaster

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Homes like this one in Wellesley are putting an end to the idea that prefabs are boxy, cheaply made structures.

Prefab homes go upscale, with prices to match

Manufactured housing, once considered cheap and drab, has taken an upscale turn.

Politics

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and top adviser Eric Fehrnstrom (left) seemed at times not to be on the same page on the Supreme Court’s health care decision.

Mitt Romney’s team taking fire from right

Prominent conservatives excoriated Romney’s campaign, ridiculing his advisers and suggesting they are bungling the presidential race.

Nation & World

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US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabiuswere pictured at the

Diplomats pressure Syria as top general defects

The US and its international partners called for global sanctions against Syria as a top-ranking general defected from the regime.

Arts

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Howard Jones brings double the memories to Foxborough

Jones is performing two whole albums, his mid-’80s classics “Human’s Lib” and “Dream Into Action,” in their entirety.

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Movie Review

Taylor Kitsch (left) and Aaron Johnson in Oliver Stone’s “Savages.”

Oliver Stone rolls with brute force in ‘Savages’

Despite a lousy ending, the film is Stone’s strongest work in years — a propulsive ultra-violent thriller with a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor.

“The labor market isn’t making the grade.”

Jonathan Basile,  director of US economics at Credit Suisse

Magazine

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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
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What if spanking works?
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5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
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40 ideas for your New England summer weekends

Opinion

“At stake in even the most minor everyday episode is how you connect to other people and the world around you.”

Carlo Rotella 

Ideas

“In a growing body of work, Timur Kuran argues that the blame for the Islamic world’s economic stagnation lies with a set of institutions that Islamic law created over centuries.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on the economic toll of Islamic law