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Are heirloom tomatoes worth the buzz?

Heirloom tomatoes at Copley Square farmers’ market in Boston.

Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff

The power of nostalgia bears fruit for tomatoes with new-found cachet. But that doesn’t mean they’re all tasty.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/25dining1.jpg New Jamaica Plain restaurant Tonic serves up ambition

It’s likely that the swankification of JP will one day overtake this part of the neighborhood, but Tonic arrives ahead of schedule.

Marlins infielder Hanley Ramirez has been linked to the Red Sox in trade rumors.

Analysis

Would Hanley Ramirez be worth it for Red Sox?

The Marlins infielder has been linked to Boston in trade rumors. But is trading young prospects for offense really what the Red Sox need?

The Podium

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/145762706.jpg Bottle bill is anti-Massachusetts

The bottle bill, which adds a five-cent fee to bottled drinks, is a new tax on Massachusetts families, writes Chris Flynn of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association.

Latest news

 

Mitt Romney addressed the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Tuesday.

Romney says White House is source of leaks

Mitt Romney said someone in the White House has been leaking classified information, although he did not say the president was responsible.

Red Sox 2, Rangers 1

Red Sox are buoyed by Buchholz, Aviles

Clay Buchholz pitched seven strong innings, and Mike Aviles knocked in the go-ahead run in top of the ninth as the Red Sox broke a four-game losing streak.

Patrick open to signing ‘three strikes’ bill

Governor Deval Patrick said he is considering signing the bill, although he wants legislators to make changes to it next year.

PayPal move bringing tech to Financial District

The online payment company has signed a seven-year lease to occupy 65,000 square feet on two floors in One International Place, one of the tallest buildings in the Boston skyline.

Health care law’s coverage, cost shrink after ruling, CBO says

The Congressional Budget Office said about 3 million fewer people will have health insurance by 2022, and costs will be 7 percent less, after last month’s Supreme Court ruling.

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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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Frame by Frame

Smee captivated by ‘Whale and Calf’
Israeli conductor Asher Fisch made his BSO debut on Saturday night.

Music Review

BSO re-creates fateful Wagner program from summer of 1937

TRAVEL

London’s calling with a remade East End
Mayor Alex Morse spoke with his staff after an appearance before the City Council’s Ordinance Committee in May.

Hard-charging start for youngest Mass. mayor
Frédéric Rivière, a.k.a. Anoraak, performing at Brighton Music Hall on Sunday.

Music Review

Drive Tour turns movie soundtrack into live, moody pop
With friends around him, Robert Reynolds, 27, kneeled near where his step-brother, Brandon Payne, was shot Sunday night on Ingalls Street.

Police defend shooting of Lynn man
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

Apps abound for 2012 Games

Crossword

Complete the daily puzzle online
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’
“Let’s Talk About Bikes’’ uses text, photos ­— and bicycles — to celebrate cycling.

Art Review

‘Bikes’ exhibit extols freedom of two-wheelers
“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

Sports

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On baseball

After a 9-1 loss Monday night to the Rangers, manager Bobby Valentine and the hapless Red Sox, who fell to 48-49, are sinking.

Red Sox must decide soon: Are they buyers or sellers?

If GM Ben Cherington doesn’t make a deal soon to shake up the Red Sox, there’s no sense buying before the trade deadline. You might as well sell.

Metro

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Natalianna Andrade-Terry, 15, saw the toddler floating in the pool next door and was one of the first to try to resuscitate her.

Inspector: Pool where 2-year-old drowned lacked safety measures

Multiple law enforcement and child welfare agencies are investigating the toddler’s death.

Columnists

An employee helps a customer at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Acceptable risk

Joanna Weiss

In dieting study, human guinea pigs carry a lot of weight

Boston Capital

Bank of America still paying for Countrywide
New coach Bill O’Brien’s team is on life support.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA did the right thing on Penn State
Army veteran Christopher May protests with Iraq Veterans Against the War in Chicago in May.

Opinion | 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

Business

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“Conceivably the expertise we’ve developed here could be useful in other states,” said James Roosevelt Jr., Tufts Health Plan chief executive.

Two insurers see new markets beyond Mass.

Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care are looking to boost business outside Massachusetts when the US health law takes hold.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Foreign affairs made a rare move to the fore of the campaign as Republican Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, prepared for a closely watched trip overseas.

Obama, Romney return to acid tone of campaign

Days after the Colorado movie theater massacre brought reflection and talk of national unity from both camps, the fight was on again.

Nation & World

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Atta Mills

Ghana’s President Atta Mills dies at 68

Mills’ death came before he could finish his first term in the West African nation long held up as a model of democracy.

Arts

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Book Review

Author Tana French brings homicide detective Mick “Scorch-er” Kennedy back to be the protagonist of her fourth novel.

‘Broken Harbor’ by Tana French

As Tana French’s fourth novel opens, someone has brutally attacked a family, the Spains, who had been living in a desolate housing development on the Irish coast.

Lifestyle

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G force

Cyclists raise money to provide free medical flights

Scott Havemeyer is coordinating a September bike ride that will benefit Angel Flight Northeast, which provides free flights for people who need access to medical care.

“Sometimes when I watch Mayor [Alex] Morse take some political actions . . . it’s like watching my children dive off a cliff into the ocean.”

Michael J. Sullivan,  former Holyoke mayor

Magazine

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25 best burgers around Boston
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12 Bostonians Changing the World
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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset

Opinion

“No matter how many mass shootings we live through, the laws will never change as long as guns occupy such a central place in our culture.”

Farah Stockman 

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