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NCAA hits Penn State with heavy penalties

The school was fined $60 million, banned from the postseason for four years, and had Joe Paterno’s wins since 1998 vacated as punishment for a child abuse scandal.

In this image taken from video provided by KUSA.com, James Holmes, left, the suspected gunman in Friday's Colorado theater massacre, made his first appearance in court with his attorney in Aurora, Colo.

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Colorado shooting suspect appears in court

Wearing orange-red hair and looking dazed, the man accused of killing 12 in a deadly rampage at a movie theater appeared in court for the first time.

“Let’s Talk About Bikes’’ uses text, photos ­— and bicycles — to celebrate cycling.

Ben Gebo

Art Review

‘Bikes’ extols freedom of two-wheelers

“Let’s Talk About Bikes” is an enthusiastic and informative, if also somewhat scatty, exhibition that runs at BSA Space through Aug. 31.

Competitors ages 5 to 15 had to swim, bike, and run in the New England Kids Triathlon Sunday.

Athletes as young as 5 taking on triathlons

More than 400 youngsters ages 5 to 15 paddled, pedaled, and pumped in the first ever New England Kids Triathlon hosted at MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center.

Ian Bowles recently added solar panels to his rooftop. He receives a subsidy for connecting panels to the area’s grid.

Wind, solar subsidy in Mass. set for review

The cost of the little-known subsidy is being borne by other utility customers.

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Reconsidering the PSA prostate cancer test

Men are weighing the pros and cons of the prostate-specific antigen blood test and digital rectal exam in light of new testing guidelines for prostate cancer.

Liverpool FC, one of Europe’s storied teams, will play at Fenway Park Wednesday. A Boston fan club of the team boasts more than 100 members, most of whom are Americans.

Touring European teams could boost US soccer

Many top-level European clubs, in an effort to extend their fan bases in the US soccer market, are doing so with summer tours here.

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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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Apps abound for 2012 Games

Crossword

Complete the daily puzzle online
“Vito,’’ an HBO documentary, chronicles the life of Vito Russo (above), an outspoken activist in the gay-rights movement who died in 1990.

Television Review

‘Vito’ the story of a man and a movement
From left: Russell Posner, CJ Wilson, and Rachel Bay Jones in Berkshire Theatre Group’s “A Thousand Clowns.’’

Stage Review

Pure pleasure, comic craft in ‘A Thousand Clowns’
“I start out with cells. And I ask, for a fat cell: Are any of the things in our environment making this fat cell store more fat?” said Barbara Corkey, an obesity researcher at Boston University School of Medicine.

G Force

BU researcher looking for obesity’s origins
From left: Al Pacino, Marlon Brandon, James Caan, and John Cazale in Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster epic “The Godfather.’’

movies

Looking back on 1972’s sizzling summer of film
The first player from Merrimack College’s relatively young football program to get a shot in the NFL, Shawn Loiseau feels he is in a familiar position.

Sunday Football Notes

Shawn Loiseau determined to make it in Texas
“We will scrutinize, looking for the most viable economic development at the most viable location, and that’s the horse that we will ride to the voters and to the Gaming Commission,” said Mayor Domenic J. Sarno.

Springfield a magnet for casino hopefuls
The greenheads are especially nasty this year, thanks in part to the heat.

Greenhead season plagues Mass. ocean towns
If you want to make a deal this year, you’d better get out in front because if you want a Ryan Dempster, Matt Garza (above), or Francisco Liriano, there are likely 8-10 teams with which you’re competing.

Sunday Baseball Notes

MLB trades may involve sticker shock

travel

Cycling on a ‘Cape Cod Pilgrimage’

Live pigeon shooting.

ideas

Lost events of the Olympics

Sports

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blue jays 15, red sox 7

Jon Lester tries to figure it out as J.P. Arencibia rounds third base after his three-run homer in the second.

Blue Jays crush Jon Lester, Red Sox

The lefthander gave up a career-high 11 earned runs as the Red Sox were swept by the Blue Jays and fell back to .500 and last place in the AL East.

Metro

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The Rev. Michel Louis told his story at The Colonnade in Boston.

Boston pastor recounts captivity in Egypt

Back home Sunday in the Boston area, the Rev. Michel Louis spoke about his religious trip to the Middle East that turned into a harrowing ordeal.

Columnists

Army veteran Christopher May protests with Iraq Veterans Against the War in Chicago in May.

Juliette Kayyem

As veteran population changes, services must adapt

Adrian Walker

Governor Patrick can still act on Three Strikes

JOANNA WEISS

In the company of women

JOAN VENNOCHI

A business built on hard work — and government
Gen9 lab technician Sherri Wang worked on the Gene Printer at the company’s Cambridge facility. It started shipping DNA in March.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Gen9 hopes to be the Intel of custom DNA

Yvonne Abraham

Longmeadow senior housing residents share lifetime bonds

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

How the marriage gap favors Obama

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

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“You’re never going to be able to completely delete yourself, but you can reduce your profile,’’ says Abine privacy analyst Sarah Downey, shown with the Boston start-up’s chief executive, Bill Kerrigan.

The battle for your data on the Web

Boston start-up Abine Inc. is part of a crop of online privacy companies that promise to help people control their personal information on the Internet.

Politics

Mayor Michael Bloomberg applied pressure on the presidential candidates two days after a gunman killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., using an assault rifle and other semiautomatic weapons.

Bloomberg urges candidates to lead gun control debate

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg challenged President Obama and Mitt Romney in the wake of the Colorado shooting.

Nation & World

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Mourners lit candles Sunday at a memorial behind the Aurora movie theater where 12 people were shot to death.

Colorado community mourns victims of shooting

President Obama visited the victims and their families in Aurora Sunday.

Arts

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Book Review

“Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus” by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.

‘Rabid’ by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

The book unpacks our fear of rabies and explains its history. The result is a very readable, fascinating account of a terrifying disease.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Why can’t Yahoo CEO take a real maternity leave?

Marissa Mayer promised that when her child arrives she’s going to take just a few weeks of maternity leave, and she’ll “work throughout it.”

“I just sat quietly and looked at them because I knew God wasn’t going to let me down.”

The Rev. Michel Louis,  on his captors in Egypt

Magazine

The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
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

Opinion

“If Obama wants a tax system that can pay for his spending, he’ll have to build it.”

Josh Barro 

Ideas

“On the fringes of American politics, on conservative radio, and even on the campaign trail, a whole parallel Obama has emerged over the course of the 2012 race—a shadowy figure who has craftily concealed his ideological extremism and is merely awaiting his second term to unleash it.”

Leon Neyfakh