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How to make time expand

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Time is finite — right? According to two new studies, it’s actually in our power to make our time feel more expansive.

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Paul Klee (1879-1940) is the subject of a captivating show at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art.

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The damning report on BU hockey’s “culture of sexual entitlement” makes it clear that coach Jack Parker is failing his players.

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For a long time, Boston remained a baseball town even as much of the country loved the NFL. But with the Red Sox’ recent capitulation, the Patriots are now the kings.

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More than one-third of Mass. hospitals lost money last year

Two dozen acute care hospitals posted financial losses in fiscal 2011, according to a new state report.

President Obama spoke at an event Friday afternoon in Portsmouth, NH.

President Obama makes pitch in Portsmouth, N.H.

President Obama charged into the stretch run of the fall campaign Friday with an urgent plea to his New Hampshire supporters to become involved.

Mitt Romney spoke at a campaign rally Friday in Orange City, Iowa.

Republicans hit Obama on jobs report

“If last night was the party, this morning is the hangover,” Mitt Romney said of a report that showed the economy added only 96,000 jobs in August.

A Legal Sea Foods ad features its own take on the “Jesus fish.”

New Legal Sea Foods ads feature Jesus fish, Brokeback Mountain

The Boston chain, which has a reputation for fresh seafood and edgy marketing, is now likening the restaurant to a religious experience.

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The controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts in the 1920’s caused much tension in the US and around the world.

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The Mount, author Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, looks spectacular as the trees change color. Ghost tours are held Friday nights.

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Things to do in the Berkshires
Sunrise lit the sky as seen from Carson Beach in South Boston.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Sept. 7, 2012
Sox owner John Henry (right) has pledged not to dismiss Bobby Valentine before season’s end, but there is little to be gained by keeping him.

Christopher L. Gasper

Actually, it is time for Valentine to check out
Bill Clinton speech

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Where did Clinton improvise most?
President Obama was joined by his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia at the end of his address at the Democratic convention on Thursday.

Obama vows bold steps, reward in shared sacrifice
Robert Kosilek, foreground, in 1993; and in 1990, background.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Judge goes too far in sex change ruling
Valerie Simpson (shown here in 2011) is touring in tribute to her late husband, Nick Ashford.

On her own, Valerie Simpson still solid as a rock

Pawnbroker Michael Goldstein talks about his business
From left: Lily Ahern, Jess Newham, Daniel Rothschild, and Sara Pendleton during last year’s Fashion’s Night Out in Boston.

Highlights for this year’s Fashion’s Night Out Boston

Stephen Jones is curating the “Hats: An Anthology” exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Stephen Jones brings hat collection to Salem

Chelsea ex-housing chief may have misused $1.5m

Scot Lehigh

Speech! Speech! Democrats make their case

Sports

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Brad Marchand

Bruins sign Brad Marchand to contract extension

The winger, 24, agreed to an $18 million extension that will keep him under the Bruins’ control through 2017.

Metro

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Joseph P. Kennedy III , left, beat Rachel Brown and Herb Robinson, to win the Democratic primary and will face Republican Sean Bielat, right.

Bielat, Kennedy to vie for open House seat

The fight to fill Barney Frank’s House seat will pit Sean Bielat, a Republican who challenged Frank two years ago, against Democrat Joseph P. Kennedy III.

Columnists

Brian McGrory

Concord bottled water ban is all wet

SCOT LEHIGH

Clinton’s speech could be turning point

JOSHUA GREEN

Partisanship will have its limits
Robert Kosilek, foreground, in 1993; and in 1990, background.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Judge goes too far in sex change ruling
Sox owner John Henry (right) has pledged not to dismiss Bobby Valentine before season’s end, but there is little to be gained by keeping him.

Christopher L. Gasper

Actually, it is time for Valentine to check out

Tech Lab

Now is a terrible time to shop for gadgets
Horatio Alger, shown in 1852, rose to fame for his rags-to-riches stories.

juliette kayyem

The Horatio Alger immigrant experience

Edward L. Glaeser

Urban planning in Greater Boston needs to aim higher

Yvonne Abraham

Bravo for sex-change ruling
Bill Belichick is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Patriots.

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s OK to question Bill Belichick

Brian McGrory

A fatal dose of irony in Belmont

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Mainstream media needs to accept its liberal bias

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Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s CEO, introduced the new Kindle Paperwhite in Santa Monica, Calif. It’s designed to look like print on paper.

Amazon unveils more powerful versions of Kindle Fire tablet

With an eye on affordability — and using the latest technology from E Ink in Cambridge — Amazon.com unveiled new Kindle tablets designed to challenge iPads.

Politics

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Mitt Romney was the first Republican nominee since 1952 to not mention war in his convention speech.

Romney defends commitment to armed forces

Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his decision not to discuss the Afghanistan war in his convention speech.

Nation & World

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On Thursday, French authorities were at the campsite where a British family was believed to be vacationing before they were attacked and three people were shot to death. The campsite is near Lake Annecy, an area in the Alps not far from France’s borders with Switzerland and Italy.

After shooting in France, girl, 4, hid beneath dead kin

Apparently frozen in terror, a 4-year-old girl crouched silently for eight hours beneath her dead mother and grandmother in the back of a BMW on a forest road in the French Alps.

Arts

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Television review

Contestants from around the country rehearse for the National High School Musical Theater Awards, documented in the TV show “Broadway or Bust.”

‘Broadway or Bust’ offers glimpse behind the scenes

This documentary of high school competition underscores the genre’s still powerful, often heartfelt lure.

Movies

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Movie Review

From left: Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Kirsten Dunst in “Bachelorette.”

A ‘Bachelorette’ that’s brutally honest

Kirsten Dunst plays a woman who’s shocked that a friend is getting married before she is — and her rawness is both real and astounding.

“People were having sex in the penalty box.”

A former student told the Boston University task force about a hockey team party 

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
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“[Michelle] Kosilek, a convicted killer, has been sentenced to prison to protect the public, not to reach her full potential as a woman.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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