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Officials attempt to enter Colo. shooting suspect’s apartment
Firefighters moved a propane tank outside the apartment complex where shooting suspect James Holmes lives in Aurora, Colorado on Saturday.

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Police and firefighters are trying to enter the booby trapped apartment of James Holmes, the suspect in Friday’s mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater.

Names of Colo. shooting victims emerge

A day after a gunman entered a crowded movie theater and opened fire, the identities of the victims are beginning to surface.

Opinion | DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Wake up, Capitol Hill

Another shooting tragedy erupts, and few have the courage to talk gun control.

Laptop theft may affect 3,900 Beth Israel patients

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center patients will be getting letters alerting them that some of their personal health information may have been breached.

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Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said a full review of her leadership team would likely lead to a major shakeup.

Kelly Ayotte’s chances for the nod may depend on national politics.

VP speculation marks latest stage of Kelly Ayotte’s ascent

The New Hampshire senator, less than two years into her first term, is being considered as a serious contender to join Mitt Romney’s Republican ticket.

Christopher L. Gasper

NBA’s Olympic age-limit proposal isn’t golden

Kobe Bryant is right. NBA commissioner David Stern’s proposal to limit the NBA players in the 2016 Olympics is “stupid.”

The Saucony marketing team prepared to ship running shoes to London for athletes competing in the Olympics.

Mass. firms sponsor Olympians for chance at global exposure

With 4 billion people expected to watch the Olympics, endorsements can boost sales for companies such as Saucony, New Balance, and Gillette.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/aquarium005--90x90.jpg The New England Aquarium

The aquarium opened in the summer of 1969 and was part of the waterfront urban renewal plan that transformed Central Wharf.

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The line at Dresser Hill’s ordering windows did not deter customers from buying ice cream at the popular destination.

The Roads to Summer

Dresser Hill ice cream offers a summer boost
Members of the Hong Kong Ballet perform “Symphony in Three Movements,” the most successful of the three pieces on the Jacob’s Pillow program.

Dance Review

Hong Kong Ballet crosses cultures with the universal language of dance
Jim Graczyk battles a fish with guide D.J. Shinduke ready with a net. Graczyk’s late son, Jeremy, had loved fishing.

Sunday Preview | Travel

Fishing, remembering on an island off British Columbia
Above: Dr. Larry Cohan has access to his computer while he talks with patient Isaac Brown.

Living with screens

Clicking with your doctor
Jerenso Figueroa, 5, cooled off in the water fountains in Cordero Park in Chelsea.

Photo Gallery

Globe photos of the week
Strip T’s Burger.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

25 best burgers around Boston
Cody Ross won Thursday night’s game with a walkoff, three-run homer against the White Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

Cody Ross loves the pressure
Gino Cappelletti is on all-time All-AFL team.

sports media

Gino Cappelletti retiring from Patriots’ radio booth
At Middlesex Truck & Coach, Mitt Romney suggested that businesses do not owe their success to the government.

In Roxbury, Romney hits Obama’s business message
Boston musician Brian Evans outside Fenway Park. His song was selected to be Fenway's 100th anniversary song.

Singing Fenway’s praises
Kelli O’Hara, as Cathy, and Brandon Victor Dixon, as Raymond, rehearse a scene from “Far From Heaven,’’ a new musical adapted from the 2002 film.

‘Far From Heaven’ becomes a musical at Williamstown

Jackie Reeves rediscovers her art just as gallery discovers her

Sports

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Josh Beckett, accompanied to the dugout by Kelly Shoppach, allowed five runs and seven hits in his six-inning stint.

Josh Beckett struggles as Red Sox fall to Jays

Beckett gave up a pair of runs in each of the first two innings and another run in the fifth.

Metro

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Carina Shane of Sweden was floating in an innertube tied to a boat off of Truro near a humpback whale on Saturday, July 14.

Woman has close encounter with whales off Truro

A woman relaxing on an inner tube off the coast of Truro got quite a surprise when she was joined by three humpback whales last weekend.

Columnists

Opinion | DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Time to wake up on gun control

opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

Schools need justice, not kindness

Adrian Walker

Lowell teens fight for right to vote

Christopher L. Gasper

NBA’s Olympic age-limit proposal isn’t golden

scot lehigh

Romney and Kerry’s seesawing political fortunes

CARLO ROTELLA

Creative impulses help shape our neighborhoods

Steven Syre

A word of caution on Mass. health cost reform

Dan Shaughnessy

Pedroia says he and Valentine get along fine

Juliette Kayyem

Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Tech Lab

Photo sites worth seeing
The Rev. Michel Louis, (seated left), Lissa Alphonse, and Egyptian tour guide Hithem Mohamed rested at a police station after they were released by their kidnappers in Egypt.

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Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

Business

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Kayak sold 3.5 million shares at $26 almost two years after the company first filed paperwork to go public.

Online travel firm Kayak rises in Wall Street debut

Shares rose 28 percent on Friday, the company’s first day of trading in the only initial public offering for a consumer Internet company since Facebook’s disappointing debut.

Politics

Campaigns take somber tone after shootings

In separate appearances Thursday, President Obama and Mitt Romney muted expected attacks on each other to instead deliver somber tributes to the victims.

Nation & World

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Syrian troops celebrated a rout of rebels in the Damascus neighborhood of Mida on Friday. Nearly 450 people were reported killed Thursday and Friday.

UN approves extension of mission to Syria

The 15-0 vote came only a few hours before the 300-member mission’s authorization was to expire.

Arts

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Stage Review

Lauren Weintraub (left, with Elena Carmichael) in the lead role of North Shore Music Theatre’s production of “Annie.”

On the North Shore, an ‘Annie’ for hard times

Despite the down economy, there’s nothing like hearing “Tomorrow” to make you think that financial security is just around the corner.

‘‘There were bullet [casings] just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead.’’

Jennifer Seeger,  a survivor of the Aurora, Colo., shooting

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

“It is time, not just for the two men who would be president, but for all of us to act before the next American gun apocalypse.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

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