Unions’ political donations falling as their power fades

As once-powerful organized labor­ loses members and influence, unions have become more ­focused on organizing workers and protecting their rights.

Polls show that President Obama is the first Democratic presidential candidate in decades to hold a clear advantage on foreign policy over his GOP opponent.

Democrats to play up foreign policy at convention

Democrats plan to praise President Obama’s signature achievements overseas and portray Mitt Romney’s views as misguided and dangerously confrontational, officials said.

Intelligence analyst Timothy Fitzgerald monitored video cameras around the city.

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Boston uses two high-tech tools to combat crime

Pioneering a new way to synthesize crime information, police made nine arrests in the past year by comparing data from a system that tracks gunfire and another that tracks parolees.

Superintendent Carol Johnson rode along as school bus routes were tested in Dorchester last week.

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Boston schools pushing to keep buses on time

While some initial confusion is unavoidable, much is riding on the School Department’s ability to have things running smoothly well before month’s end.

Governor’s Council still in eye of storm

Despite a recent state Senate bid to abolish the obscure but important body, 27 people are vying for one of eight seats on the council in Thursday’s primaries.

Dan Shaughnessy

Despite lack of big names, Deutsche Bank still interesting

Guys Not Named Tiger are giving it a nice go this weekend at the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston.

Smartphone apps track users even when shut down

MIT researchers have discovered that certain apps continually collect and transmit sensitive information, including location, contacts, and browsing histories.

Jonathan Raphael and James Whong worked with a robot that is a test bed for the massive, six-legged robot named Stompy.

Six-legged robot project takes shape in Somerville

Unlike most of the machines churned from the more than 80 robotics companies in Greater Boston, this creature has no purpose other than awe.

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The mad theater of campaigns, protests, rallies, and conventions that is our modern political process is not a recent phenomenon.

Globe exclusives

For years Shoshana Blumenfeld avoided eating carrots, peaches, and anything with nuts. A new test has revealed that she was misdiagnosed and that she actually is only allergic to birch pollen. Now she can eat almost anything she wants.

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Fighting food allergies
Michael Pemberton (left) and Michael Samuel Kaplan in Kevin Rice’s “Oblomov” at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.

Stage Review

Snore of the crowd a sign of the success of ‘Oblomov’
“The same technology we’re talking about in sequencing the DNA from cancers has allowed us to identify mutations that increase the susceptibility of patients to cancer,” said Phillip A. Sharp.

G Force

Nobel laureate on front line of war on cancer

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Fall TV Preview

The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ that threatened to upend physics
Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo and family members of Lou Montgomery watched as they unveiled his retired jersey in the corner of the stadium during halftime.

BC’s first black football player honored
A fishmonger at the Rialto Market in Venice knew some great out-of-the-way restaurants.

Travel | In the know

How to find a great meal anywhere in the world
Cory Schneider, who signed a threeyear, $12 million extension July 1, has seemingly replaced Roberto Luongo as Vancouver’s starting goalie.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Canucks’ Cory Schneider hopes for labor settlement
Magic Johnson, an NBA analyst for ESPN, keeps close tabs on the league and was thrilled that his former club acquired Dwight Howard.

Sunday Basketball Notes

New Dodgers owner Magic Johnson still happy to talk Bird
“The general expectation among my friends was that I’d spend six months messing around with an acoustic guitar and join a hardcore band again and/or go get a job,” says Frank Turner about his turn to folk music.

Frank Turner’s punk roots take a troubadour turn
EVERY NATION A CASTLE: A fence marking the Turkey-Iran border.

The Internationalist

A world of messy borders? Get used to it
William H. Chafe notes that the Clintons’s marriage blends the personal and the political.

Book review

‘Bill and Hillary’ by William H. Chafe

Sports

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Athletics 6, Red Sox 2

Another long day for the Sox came to an end in the fourth inning for Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Red Sox swept away again

The Red Sox were outscored, 33-5, in the three-game series against the Athletics, a team that started the season with a 70 percent smaller payroll.

Metro

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Mayor Menino wants the entire casino project built in a single phase.

Suffolk casino plan needs cities’ support

Responding to complaints about its plans to develop its proposed $1 billion casino resort in phases, Suffolk Downs acknowledged that the host cities control when the resort could open.

Columnists

A case containing the remains of Pfc. Shane W. Cantu, of Corunna, Mich., sits on a loader during prayer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday.

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Afghan war still rages, yet soldiers get no play in Tampa

James Carroll

After Armstrong’s small step foward, two steps back for America?

Dan Shaughnessy

Despite lack of big names, Deutsche Bank still interesting

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Honor American Dream-builders today — with healthcare, hours

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing
Jim Rooney, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority stood atop the roof of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Lawrence Harmon

Convention center needs a boost of solar power
Balloons swirl in the air following Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa Friday.

Jeff Jacoby

Time to shelve the political conventions
GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Renée Loth

The value of public-sector jobs

Tiger Woods’s first-round 64 included six consecutive birdies.

Christopher L. Gasper

Is Tiger Woods back?
Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox were swept by the Angels in Anaheim this week.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, a year of living dreadfully

Boston Capital

Steward finds road to R.I. is rocky

Business

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Will Cady of Source Audio demonstrated the Hot Hand device while playing the bass guitar at the company’s office in Woburn.

Video goes viral, and an obscure Woburn tech company has a hit

Source Audio had been struggling to attract customers, until Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee tweeted out a video of their audio effects gadget in action.

Politics

Political Notebook

A sand sculpture created in the likeness of President Obama was on display on Sunday in downtown Charlotte, N.C.

Obama backers address past four years

Prominent surrogates for the president responded Sunday to whether Americans are better off today than they were four years ago, but their answers were mostly inconclusive.

Nation & World

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Cleric Mohammad Khalid Chisti was blindfolded when he appeared before a magistrate in Islamabad on Sunday.

Pakistani cleric now charged in blasphemy case

Pakistani police charged a Muslim cleric with planting pages of the Koran in the bag of a Christian girl who has been accused of desecrating the holy book.

Arts

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Book Review

David Foster Wallace (pictured at a Manhattan bookstore in 2006, two years before his death) is the subject of D.T. Max’s book.

‘Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story’ by D.T. Max

Documenting the life of a writer as revered and tormented as David Foster Wallace is a fraught task at best, but Max has done an admirable job.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

School safety concerns for parents to consider

A slew of scary headlines warning about a rise in whooping cough in Mass. and toxic chemicals in school supplies may have some parents concerned about school health hazards.

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A change to commenting

We’ve launched new article comments on BostonGlobe.com, and want to explain some changes that you’ll see.

Magazine

The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
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Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“Forty-three years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, it seems apparent that, instead of opening the way to a realm of limitless possibility, the event marked the start of a harsh reckoning with human limits.”

James Carroll 

Ideas

“In order to be a good friend, even a very young child must be not only fun to spend time with, but capable of being emotionally mature in ways that can be difficult even for grown-ups.”

—Leon Neyfakh on childhood friendship