Mass. firms mull cuts in health benefits

Some companies are considering trimming employee benefits as they prepare to implement provisions of President Obama’s health care overhaul.

Secretary of State John Kerry campaigned for the military action on five morning talk shows.

John Kerry urges congressional OK on Syria

The secretary of state urged lawmakers to approve strikes on Syria to preserve the “core to American credibility in foreign policy.”

Global Rescue employees Bryan Kewley (left) and Kevin Helm participated in company training exercises.

World’s perils give rise to a rescue business

At a time when companies are sending employees around the globe, the services of Boston security company Global Rescue are in great demand.

Martin Walsh at a senior services center.

Early struggles gave Martin Walsh a solid underpinning

The mayoral candidate says he has yet to have a bad day on the trail. Alcoholism, bullets, and cancer can give a man perspective.

The new system should benefit time-pinched families.

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New website tracks stops by Boston school buses

The site, tested last year with a few hundred families, will officially go live this school year for families across Boston.

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

Just in time for Labor Day, two well-known local companies are grappling with how generous to be to their employees.

A smartwatch made by Sonostar, a Taiwanese company, was displayed at the Computex trade fair in Taipei in June.

Smartwatches are ready, but are consumers?

The looming debut of Samsung’s smartwatch has rekindled debate over whether the public is ready for so-called wearable computing.

Santina Raymond left Mass with a sash belonging to her son, Pierre, who died in the Iraq War.

Lawrence society of martyrs honors soldier slain in Iraq

Pierre Raymond, an Army sergeant who died eight years ago in a mortar blast, was posthumously inducted into the St. Alfio Society.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

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This juncture of near-infinite data collection and total analysis capacity achieves a critical mass in the penetration of secrets.

Globe exclusives

After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children’s Hospital, Katie Mills started to speak in complete sentences for the first time.

Health

A drug for autism?
Elizabeth Mitchell and Dan Zanes (right) with Mitchell’s husband, Daniel Littleton, and daughter, Storey Littleton, in Woodstock, N.Y., where they collaborated on the album “Turn, Turn, Turn.”

Teaming up for a kid-friendly album
Dr. Stephen Bergman wrote “The House of God” and other works under the pen name Samuel Shem.

Q&A | ‘Samuel Shem’

Author revisits ‘The House of God’

Album Review | ROCK

Rattling cages for better on ‘Worse’
Lalla Essaydi’s triptych “Bullets Revisited #3” from 2012.

Photography Review

Daughters of Scheherazade
Across New England, areas like the Swift River Valley (above, left, in the 1880s and in 2010) in Petersham have seen their forests, once cut down and cleared for farmland, replenished in the 21st century.

New England sees return of forests, wildlife

This fall, Boston’s momentum will face a significant test as the city elects its first new mayor in a generation.

Boston on upswing, poll shows
Derek Nally’s sisters Cathy Brennan, Susan Giugno, and Cheryl Wolfe want answers in his death. Arbour staff waited to try to revive him, officials say.

Staff failures cited in psychiatric patient deaths
Qiang Ke (left) and Yi Zhang rolled a bed from their old apartment on Commonwealth Avenue to their new one on Babcock Street.

photo gallery

Move-in day
Marie Kosnik (left) and Carrie Kosnik ate lunch at Ten Center Street Restaurant and Pub during the Taste of Newburyport food tour.

travel

Newburyport food tour leads to good eats
Tight supplies have made house hunting difficult for Carrie and Rich Garfield. The couple has lost out in three bidding wars on homes in Newton and Belmont.

House hunting more complicated
Jhonny Peralta

Sunday Baseball Notes

Bringing back players tied to Biogenesis

Sports

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Red Sox 7, White Sox 6

David Ortiz flexes his muscles after a two-run double capped a four-run second inning.

Red Sox sweep White Sox, brace for the Tigers

The Red Sox keep proving they can beat up the bad teams, but now the big boys come to town for three games starting Monday.

Metro

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A working group will explore where a permanent public restroom could be built in the area of the Cambridge Common.

Public toilet urged for Cambridge Common

A working group will explore where a permanent public restroom could be built in the area of the Cambridge Common.

Columnists

Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
(From left to right) Ray Flynn; Martin O’Malley; Héctor Luis Acevedo; Michael Nutter; Kim Driscoll; Ed Rendell; Kevin White; Amram Mitzna; and Tom Menino.

Yvonne Abraham

Would-be mayors’ mayors
State Senator Dan Wolf holds 23 percent interest in Cape Air.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The Dan Wolf exemption

JEFF JACOBY

Privatizing Logan fixes ethics problem
Tiger Woods drove his way to a 4-under-par 67 and a tie for 20th.

Dan Shaughnessy

Tiger Woods in Boston spotlight
Brightleaf vice president Jeff Turner (left) and CEO Dan Gaffney. The firm’s goal is to help lawyers streamline the document production.

Innovation economy

Start-ups take on lawyers

Bob Ryan

No shortage of topics to discuss
Charlotte Rose Kelly died at age 5. The new park was built in her memory.

Beverly Beckham

A gift in memory of a child, and a sign

Phil Mickelson was in deep trouble on No. 9, his final hole, but he hacked out and made a nice bogey save.

Christopher L. Gasper

Phil Mickelson a cut above at Deutsche Bank Championship
Seamus Heaney taught for 20 years at Harvard.

Kevin Cullen

Life of engagement, wondrous words

CARLO ROTELLA

First day of 41st grade

Nation & World

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Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU said the call-record program “certainly raises profound privacy concerns.”

Drug agents using vast phone trove eclipsing NSA’s

The federal officials have had access to an AT&T database containing records of decades of Americans’ phone calls.

Boston mayoral race

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Mayor Menino made it clear that he never thought of living anywhere else in the country.

Mayor Menino reflects on 20 years in office

Thomas Menino spoke with The New York Times Magazine about the city he’s helped lead for the past 20 years.

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Spotify

Streaming for a good beat that’s to your taste

Discovering new music is still possible via the latest and fast-evolving trend in digital music: streaming.

Arts

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Book Review

George Johnson touches on a wide range of topics in his book, from the fact that dinosaurs got the disease to surprising statistics tied to residents of Love Canal and Hiroshima.

‘The Cancer Chronicles’ by George Johnson

Johnson, a veteran science reporter, offers up his own knowledge and insights into cancer.

Health and wellness

Nutrition and You!

Tips to help you reduce food cravings

Food cravings, an intense desire for a specific food, occur in up to 97 percent of individuals.

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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Little folk
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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force