Boston considers hike in retirees’ pensions

As cities and states across the US take aim at public employee pensions, Boston City Hall is engaged in a very different debate: how much to increase retirees’ checks.

Insurers to stay with key benefits of US health law

The largest insurers in Mass. have pledged to extend two popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act even if the Supreme Court decides to overturn the law.

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The $1.45 million partnership will allow students to work with scientists.

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Jerry Sandusky arrived at the court house under gray skies on Monday.

Prosecutors rest case in Jerry Sandusky trial

The victim of one of Sandusky’s alleged victims gave graphic testimony before the ex-coach’s defense team began to call witnesses.

Head of Greece's radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras (left) shook hands with the conservative New Democracy party's leader and winner of Greece's general election Antonis Samaras during a meeting at the parliament in Athens on Monday.

Greek election victor calls for broad coalition

Antonis Samaras says he will continue efforts to build a broad coalition government, despite a refusal from the second-placed radical left party to join in.

From Sunday’s Globe

Joe Resnek is writing his way to the top

The Chelsea native has gone from a flourishing stealing-and-selling business to writing speeches for chiefs of staff and agency heads.

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Chelsea native pens speeches for US officials

Joe Resnek makes his way speechwriting for the Obama administration.

Ideas

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Charles Darwin and L. Ron Hubbard have something in common: they wanted to know what was going on between the leaves.

Travel

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Authors of the “Unofficial Guide to the Best RV Tent Campgrounds in the Northeast” offer a few of their top campground picks.

President Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine.”

Opinion | John E. Sununu

Panic sets in at the White House

The White House and the Obama campaign have been exposed as adrift and out of touch.

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BostonGlobe.com exclusives

Brewer, distiller concoct a joint venture

Dan Shaughnessy

Valentine no longer in comfort of TV booth
At Roxbury Community College, the overall enrollment has slipped slightly since 2009 to 2,744.

Controversy still grips Roxbury college

Parents of slain student try to move on

Photo Gallery

Boston celebrates Bunker Hill Day

Watergate remembered

Nixon man is suspect in bugging try

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What women want in the delivery room
Drake performed at Comcast Center in Mansfield. His second album, released in November, became one of the biggest of 2011.

Music Review

Drake wows by sticking to the script
Cary Tedder and Jacquelyn Piro Donovan in “Hello, Dolly!’’ at North Shore Music Theatre.

Stage Review

Slightly shifted focus in ‘Hello, Dolly!’
After some games at Turner Field in Atlanta, kids get to run the bases.

Kid friendly

10 top US baseball parks for families

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Theater audiences are growing older
Director Alex Timbers (forefront) onstage with Ruthie Ann Miles (left) during the first rehearsal of “Here Lies Love” at Mass MoCA.

The immersive tale of Imelda Marcos

Sports

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Ryan Kalish, right, got a hand from Red Sox third base coach Jerry Royster in the seventh after hitting an RBI single.

Ryan Kalish is the winner Red Sox need

Kalish, who had a key RBI Sunday to help produce a win, brings a vitality to the lineup the Sox have lacked.

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Visitors gaze at Morticia, an amorphophallus titanum, in a temporary greenhouse at the Franklin Park Zoo in Dorchester.

Curiosity for Franklin Park Zoo’s ‘corpse flower’

When the rare, 4-foot-6-inch plant affectionately known as Morticia finally blooms, the flower will emit an odor of rotting flesh.

Columnists

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio industry

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

Tech Lab Plus

SpareOne’s emergency cellphone gets high marks

Innovation Economy

Lighting the way for better bulbs

Dan Shaughnessy

Valentine no longer in comfort of TV booth

opinion | jeff jacoby

Vulgar speech can’t be banned, but should be curbed

joan vennochi

Another Kennedy spin?

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Still a long way to go for gay youth

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

The word from dads at home

Dan Shaughnessy

Some bad vibrations at Wrigley Field
Verastem executives (from left) Robert Forrester, Robert Weinberg, and Christoph Westphal.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money
Actor Robert Young, the perfect dad in “Father Knows Best,” is surrounded by his television family.

Beverly Beckham

The things today’s dads do

Business

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Scott Forstall, an Apple senior vice president, announced last week that in the fall iPhones would no longer carry Google maps but have Apple’s own system built in.

Apple enters battle with Google on mobile maps

Starting this fall, iPhones will no longer carry Google maps but instead will have Apple’s own map service built in.

Politics

Mitt Romney refused to say what he would do about President Obama’s immigration order if he is elected president.

Romney criticizes Obama’s immigration order

His relationship with Latino voters still tenuous, Mitt Romney refused to say whether he would revoke the order affecting more than 800,000 illegal immigrants.

Nation & World

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An Egyptian supporter of Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi held a poster in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Egypt rulers promise power transfer by end of June

The country’s ruling military council pledged to honor its promise to hand over power to the newly elected president by the end of this month

Arts

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MUSIC REVIEW

Rascal Flatts (above, at the 2012 CMA Music Festival) headlined the annual Country 102.5 festival Saturday at the Comcast Center.

Rascal Flatts gets groups going at fest

The band headlined the Country 102.5 festival and its set was an 80-minute no-turbulence zone of radio hits.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Acupuncture closer to being widely accepted

The technique outperformed a placebo in a small but well-designed study focusing on measurable results.

“She won’t be forgotten, but it’s sort of too painful here. There are too many memories, too many places she used to go.”

Virginia Payne,  on her daughter, Rebecca, who was killed in her Mission Hill apartment

Magazine

The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
The cover for the June 3 2012 issue

40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
The cover for the May 27 2012 issue

What does it take to become a Disney star?

Opinion

“Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.”

John E. Sununu 

Ideas

“Bashar Assad was, relatively speaking, normal, even a bit of a computer nerd. I should know: I spent more time face-to-face with him than perhaps any other American.”

David W. Lesch,  on the making of a Syrian dictator