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Family, friends rejoice after Mass. hostages freed

After a Dorchester pastor and an Everett woman were released following their kidnapping Friday in Egypt, family members celebrated.

Marissa Mayer

Google executive Marissa Mayer named new Yahoo CEO

The 37-year-old Mayer, who was one of Google’s first employees, will be Yahoo’s fifth CEO in five years.

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Mitt Romney accused President Obama’s campaign of “dishonesty” and insisted he would not release more than two years of tax returns.

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Senator John Kerry’s office accused Mitt Romney of “conjuring up false and convoluted alibis” by asserting that Kerry released just two years of returns.

Kevin Youkilis will be wearing a White Sox uniform at Fenway Park on Monday.

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Red Sox vs. White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Upon Fenway return, Youkilis unsure what to expect

The ex-Red Sox player said he’ll “probably” be warmly received, but remains unsure how fans will treat him in his first game back Monday.

Wes Welker signed his franchise player tender in May.

Patriots, Wes Welker fail to reach new deal

Welker will play the 2012 season on a one-year deal after the sides couldn’t agree on a long-term deal by Monday’s deadline.

Heat wave expected to kick into high gear Tuesday

Temperatures in the region may hit the high 90s Tuesday, with high humidity on tap for Wednesday.

Opinion | The Podium

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Liz Kurkjian-Henry describes her treatment for tongue cancer as she wonders how the former House speaker is doing with his treatment in prison.

Dr. Lisa Sterman held up a Truvada pill at her office in San Francisco The pill, already used to treat people with HIV, also helps prevent the virus from infecting healthy people.

FDA approves pill to prevent HIV infections

The drug, Truvada, is the first medication intended to prevent HIV infections in people having sex with infected individuals.

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Adrian Walker

Revising Mitt Romney’s career at Bain

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Finding healing for the healers
Afjal Wahidi and other Northeastern students took part in a session last week on how to pitch an idea to business investors.

First 6 start-ups nurtured by Northeastern take flight
Senator Christopher Dodd (center), and Representative Barney Frank (second from right) celebrated their bill in 2010.

2 years later, Dodd-Frank law is largely stalled
From left: Miller Gaffney, John Bruno, Bob Richter, and Kevin Bruneau visit flea markets across the nation in search of the perfect find on “Market Warriors.’’

Television Review

‘Market Warriors’ adds flash to ‘Roadshow’ formula
“We have to create different models of how we care for older patients. Delirium is a symptom of how we don’t give good hospital care to older people,” said Dr. Sharon Inouye.

G Force

Focusing on delirium in the elderly
Susie Essman plays one of the three women pursued by Brooks Ashmanskas’s Barney Cashman in Neil Simon’s “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.”

Stage Review

Going for broke in Williamstown’s ‘Lovers’
“To make more progress in the education of leaders, we have to get better at translating knowing into doing,’’ says Nitin Nohria, the 10th dean of Harvard Business School.

Modernizing the Harvard MBA program
Houses in Kampong Phluk, Cambodia, are built on stilts to withstand the ebb and flow of the monsoon seasons.

A Cambodia shaped by water, history and resilience
The house at the left was built in 1867 and is listed at $2.35 million. It includes a three-family house on a separate parcel.

South Boston’s storied mansions up for sale
Adam Morrison (right) hasn’t played in the NBA in two years and it’s been more than three since he scored at least 10 points in a game.

Sunday Basketball Notes

Adam Morrison looks for one final chance in NBA
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Ideas | The Word

Higgs boson metaphors as clear as molasses

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ON BASEBALL

Will Middlebrooks stroked three more hits Sunday, including a two-run, bases-loaded single in the fifth inning that opened up Boston’s lead.

Red Sox made right choice on Kevin Youkilis trade

Will Middlebrooks may have a ways to go before he matches some of Youkilis’s statistics, but the Red Sox rookie’s upside is undeniable.

Metro

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Governor Deval Patrick finalized an agreement with the Mashpee Wampanoag last week about the terms under which a Taunton tribal casino would operate.

Taunton casino’s fate tied to landless tribe’s legal battle

Lawsuits against the Cowlitz Indians for a project in Washington state could determine if the Mashpee Wampanoag ever realize their casino dreams.

Columnists

Tech Lab Plus

Local app helps you navigate selling sites

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Women in combat are not a cause of sexual assault, but could be the cure
MIT’s Bill Aulet talked about CloudTop’s plans.

Innovation Economy

Entrepreneurs offer key factors to win investors
(From left) John Stockton, Chris Mullin, and Charles Barkley had a golden experience in Barcelona in 1992.

Bob Ryan

‘Dream Team’ book a must read for fans

Adrian Walker

Revising Mitt Romney’s career at Bain

Jeff Jacoby

Life sentence not ‘unusual’ for minors

Yvonne Abraham

East Boston shipyard has an ugly beauty
MIT’s Rehmi Post, Thad Starner, and Steve Mann with professor Alex Pentland, part of the Perceptual Computing Group.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

MIT ‘borgs’ still back wearable technology
Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson mishandled the discipline of a former headmaster.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Carol Johnson’s mind-boggling blunders
Joe Paterno was pictured in this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo.

Christopher L. Gasper

Joe Paterno chose his legacy over integrity

Adrian Walker

Mothers united by enduring pain of senseless death
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Business

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Sebastian Seung of MIT is helping to create a map of the brain’s neural connections.

Scientist’s game helps map the brain

MIT professor Sebastian Seung and his team launched EyeWire, an online game that invites volunteer “scientists” to build 3-D maps of the cell networks that are crucial for vision.

Politics

The Harvard professor raised about $400,000 in New York and about $320,000 in Los Angeles, compared with about $250,000 in Boston and just over $200,000 in Cambridge, according to a Globe analysis of Elizabeth Warren’s unofficial numbers from her latest campaign filing.

Elizabeth Warren taps deep pockets near and far

The Democratic Senate candidate collected more itemized contributions in New York and Los Angeles than any other city, including Boston, between April and June.

Nation & World

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Dr. Stephen R. Covey was a motivational speaker best known for the book

Stephen Covey, author of ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,’ dies at 79

Covey, whose books have sold more than a million copies, died due to complications from a bicycle accident in April.

Arts

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Stage Review

“A Class Act,” playing in Stockbridge, is a musical biography of Edward Kleban, the lyricist for “A Chorus Line.’’

Edward Kleban’s life, full of musical interludes

“A Class Act,” playing in Stockbridge, is a sporadically engaging but scattershot musical biography that tries unsuccessfully to illuminate the lyricist’s short and bumpy life.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Is it possible to counteract aging effects of stress?

Can high levels of stress really make you age faster? A new study suggests that a common form of anxiety may be associated with an earlier risk of dying.

“The richest industry in the history of the world is using its vast and unlimited resources to slow, delay, gut, and weaken as many of [Dodd-Frank’s] rules as possible.”

Dennis Kelleher,  a former aide to the late Senator Ted Kennedy

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?

Opinion

“One can be a champion of small, limited government and still wish for that government to make sense.”

Jennifer Graham 

Ideas

“Iran’s so-called halal Internet will be a kind of anti-Internet—a self-contained loop within Iran’s borders featuring only regime-approved sites, and cut off from the World Wide Web.”

Abraham Riesman,  on bottled, national Internets