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Fungus in outbreak matched to pharmacy

Regulators have confirmed a fungus in a vial from the Framingham pharmacy matches a type of infection from the meningitis outbreak.

Arrests made in local sex trafficking ring

Two men who owned massage parlors in Wellesley and Revere have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking investigation.

On Thursday, President Obama made a campaign stop at Veteran's Memorial Park in downtown Manchester, N.H.

Derrick Z. Jackson

A reinvigorated Obama in N.H.

President Obama was back to his rousing 2008 form in downtown Manchester today, enough to give some voters hope for his reelection.

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‘Alex Cross’ is a dud

Some movies make it to theaters, and you don’t know why. Nothing works. “Alex Cross,” starring Tyler Perry, is that kind of movie.

The science complex under construction at UMass Boston is expected to be completed by 2014. The university also plans to add academic buildings and dorm rooms.

Construction may bring a new vitality to Columbia Point

A burst of activity may transform the numerous vacant properties into housing, stores, restaurants, and other attractions.

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Sandeep Singh, 22, won a $30.5 million jackpot soon after his girlfriend broke up with him. “I was heartbroken at first, but now I’m getting over it,” he said.

The biggest demonstration in Boston's history brought the Vietnam Moratorium Day activities to Boston Common in 1969 as an estimated 100,000 persons shouted in cadence that they wanted the Vietnam war ended

From the archives | Photo Gallery

The 1969 peace rally

The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam on Oct. 15, 1969 was a huge gathering of antiwar protesters across the United States, with an estimated 100,000 people assembled at the Boston Common.

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The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | Oct. 23, 6 p.m.

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Join Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, authors of “The Real Romney,” to discuss the Republican presidential candidate’s life and history.

Globe exclusives

Actor and director Tom McCarthy (right), who played the role of a journalist in the final seaqson of HBO’s “The Wire,” has been hired for a movie based on the Boston Globe’s reporting of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.

Movie to be based on Globe reporting of Catholic sex abuse scandal
Ethel and Bobby Kennedy play with two of their 11 children in a scene from the HBO film “Ethel.”

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Ethel Kennedy and family remember
Andrew Campbell got his family involved in his sport.

For these rowers, Head of Charles is family time
David Johnson and Kate Morkeski load a device that feeds fertilizer into the salt marsh on Plum Island.

Study: Fertilizer harms Plum Island
President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox taking too long to hire manager

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Senator Scott Brown’s proposals focus on lowering the overall tax rate and closing loopholes, while his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, has proposed raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year.

Brown, Warren show sharpest differences on taxes
Ethel Kennedy (right, with her daughter, Rory), the focus of a new HBO film, hasn’t slowed down much at age 84.

Ethel Kennedy, in twilight and limelight
“Charing Cross Bridge, London” by Claude Monet.

Sebastian Smee

Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Freud works stolen
“Zandra Rhodes: A Lifelong Love Affair With Textiles” features the designer’s favorite looks as well as sketches, inspirational photos, and fabrics.

style

Zandra Rhodes on enduring punk
A 20th anniversary design.

Celebrating 20 years of heels in Boston

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Hernandez was injured for three weeks with an ankle sprain that he initially thought was a break. He came back from injury on Sunday, going for six catches and 30 yards and a touchdown in the Seahawks loss.

Aaron Hernandez at first feared broken ankle

The Patriots tight end said he was happy to bounce back from last month’s injury, and excited to be contributing again.

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Wandering coyote captured in Mattapan

A wandering coyote was captured this afternoon after his travels through the Mattapan neighborhood caused alarm.

Columnists

President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Edward L. Glaeser

Nobel Prize shows school assignment woes

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox taking too long to hire manager

Yvonne Abraham

Cambridge cheers up about Obama

joan vennochi

Obama needs to win the not-so-optimistic

Brian McGrory

No shame for Rep. John Tierney

Jeff Jacoby

What would Hippocrates say about Question 2?

opinion | scot lehigh

President Obama upped his game

Opinion | farah stockman

United States, incorporated

joanna weiss

In step with the Arnold apology tour

Boston Capital

Who wins among upbeat consumers?
Tom Brady’s play is not a problem, but the solution to almost all of the Patriots’ ones.

Christopher l. Gasper

Brady not to blame for Patriots’ struggles

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Google’s office in New York.

Google stock plunges after earnings mistakenly released

The company’s stock fell 8 percent after Google’s third-quarter earnings report was released early by mistake.

Politics

In debate, Obama, Romney leave out Libya details

During Tuesday’s debate, neither President Obama or Mitt Romney answered the question about the terrorist ­attack in Benghazi.

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Syrian men reacted following an airstrike by Syrian government forces in Maaret al-Numaan on Thursday.

Airstrikes in northern Syria kill at least 43

Syrian warplanes hammered a strategic city captured by rebels, leaving behind scenes of carnage captured on amateur videos.

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From left: Ken Cheeseman, Miranda Craigwell, Cliff Odle, and Patrick Shea comprise the four-person cast of “Race.”

‘Race’ looks back in anger at New Rep

This law-office drama puts more than racial prejudice on trial. It goes after sexism and legal ethics as well.

Style

Jennifer Aniston has teamed up with the Living Proof hair company.

Jennifer Aniston’s new hair product: Who am I to be disappointed?

Trying to follow in Jen’s tress success.

“We want this to be a destination for people when they come to Boston, and we believe this peninsula can become that.”

J. Keith Motley,  University of Massachusetts Boston chancellor on Columbia Point

Magazine

The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal
The cover for the October 7 2012 issue

AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design

Opinion

“[President Obama] has not yet won the most important arguments about why he deserves four more years. What’s his economic vision?”

 

Ideas

“The strategy that underlies American policy, the Carter Doctrine, is now more than 30 years old, and in dire need of an overhaul. …Today, it drives American engagement in a Middle East that looks far different from the region for which it was invented.

Thanassis Cambanis , on the need for a new Middle East policy