High school student decline a strain for Boston

Public high school enrollment is on the slide, leaving nearly 3,000 seats empty and raising questions about possible school closures.

The sketch artists provided their own perspective of the scene in the courtroom when John Martorano testified at James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial.

Bulger trial puts sketch artists in their element

The sketch artists’ oversized construction paper, erasers, and messy pastels are decidedly old-fashioned but powerful.

Next mayor may usher in new era for Boston

Voters will choose not only the first new mayor in 20 years and add at least four new voices to the City Council, they will also chart a course for the city.

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An out-of-control wildfire burned homes near Yarnell, Arizona, on Sunday.

Wildfire kills 19 firefighters in Arizona

A wildfire fanned by gusty winds killed 19 elite firefighters in Arizona, the deadliest such toll in the United States in decades.

Mormon teenagers followed a muddy path in Auburn, N.H.

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Mormon youth group reenacts 1846 journey

Teens from the Boston area completed a three-day historical reenactment that has become a coming-of-age rite in many Mormon communities.

Bidding on eBay for a jersey bearing Aaron Hernandez’s name has reached $227. The piece of Patriots apparel originally sold for $50.

Aaron Hernandez shirts are hot items on eBay

Bidding on eBay for a jersey bearing Hernandez’s name has reached $227. The piece of Patriots apparel originally sold for $50.

Professor Paula Hammond

MIT nanotech research targets bone-repair surgery

A research team has created a high-tech adhesive that more securely bonds implants to bone.

Marathon bombing victim John Odom was escorted across the finish line of One Run for Boston by his daughter Nicole Reis.

One Run for Boston ends on a heartfelt note

John Odom, who was injured in the Marathon bombings, was wheeled out to join his daughter as she crossed the finish line of the cross-country relay.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

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The Constitution pursues not perfection, which is impossible, but the “more perfect,” which always beckons.

Globe exclusives

From left: Guiesseppe Jones, Natalie Mendoza, and James Barry star in the Chester Theatre Company production of Steven Sater’s “Arms on Fire.”

Stage Review

‘Arms on Fire’ fails to light a spark
Nina Rossi holding her iPod Touch with a photo Lance Rice took after he robbed Rossi’s house.

Health

Heroin in rural Mass.
Rene Westbrook uses images of icons, monoliths, statuary, people, and landscapes from around the world in her collages.

Art Review

Myths, tyranny glower in Westbrook collages
Jayne Atkinson as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Treat Williams as Henry II in “The Lion in Winter” in Stockbridge.

Stage Review

‘The Lion in Winter’ roars to life
Alex Rodriguez’s $250 million contract with the Texas Rangers changed him, and not for the better.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Alex Rodriguez, what have you done?
Divers and staff at the New England Aquarium worked to move a bonnethead shark to its new home in the renovated Giant Ocean Tank.

Aquarium’s giant tank is a renovated marvel
Real estate agent Patty Chen (right) and one of her clients, Jane, in Brookline. Chen helps people from China buy homes.

Overseas buyers flood region’s realty market
Among the Sinovel wind turbines in the United States is this one in Charlestown. The Sinovel case “illustrates the heavy baggage that some Chinese firms carry on their journey to global markets,” said Thilo Hanemann at Rhodium Group.

Theft case against Chinese firm carries a warning
Missourian Dan Bohannon, who had never been to Boston or run this late at night, trudged along with his escort.

A long night’s journey toward a new day
The team behind Outside the Box included managing director Kevin T. Carlon (left), artistic director Sherrie Johnson, and founder and chairman Ted Cutler.

Ted Cutler’s thinking way outside the box
Johnny Depp.

critic’s Notebook

Johnny Depp acting his age?
Michael C. Hall in “Dexter.”

BUZZSAW | MATTHEW GILBERT

Do uneven TV series become classics?

Sports

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Red Sox 5, Blue Jays 4

Shane Victorino is mobbed after Toronto’s Josh Thole made an error on his hard grounder to first base, producing a Red Sox walkoff win.

Red Sox edge Blue Jays with walkoff win

The win gave the Red Sox 50 by July for just the fourth time in franchise history and the first time since 2008.

Metro

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Julius Anaya and other Harvard Kent School fourth-graders attended World Ocean School aboard the Roseway.

Students learn sailing, navigation aboard ship

The crew aboard the historic Roseway will teach high-risk middle school students from Revere, and disabled students from Boston.

Columnists

JAMES CARROLL

Our halting progress toward justice
The Franklin Park Zoo’s new Baird’s tapir calf will make her debut in a few weeks and will look similar to this calf, born there in 2007.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Don’t feed the animals (do feed the zoo)
Abubakar “Bubbles” Suleiman, 15, has made grea t st rides at Ro xbur y’ s Orchard Gardens school af ter moving to Bos ton from Nigeria.

Yvonne Abraham

A graduate’s inspiring story

JEFF JACOBY

Civil-rights generation prisoner to its fears

JOANNA WEISS

Rich for a day, at least until the credits roll
Katie Mattscheck, an employee at In the Pink in Boston, uses Sagamore Retail to determine which items are selling.

Innovation Economy

Technology a hard sell to local shops
Richard Seymour, Robert Kraft, his son Jonathan, Myra Kraft, Tedy Bruschi, and Ty Law performed the Super Bowl victory dance at City Hall Plaza in 2004.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Without Myra, the Patriots lost their way
As their No. 2 all-time scorer, Paul Pierce’s place in Celtics history is assured.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics’ trade hurts, but it was time
Once known for petty crime and drugs, the now-popular Brewer Plaza was renovated and opened last summer.

RENÉE LOTH

Brewer Plaza, reborn

derrick z. jackson

US is a segregated joint on marijuana
Officer David Williams has been fired twice.

lawrence harmon

Do arbitrators give violent cops a pass?

Tech Lab

Where to turn without Google Reader

Nation & World

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Women opposing President Mohammed Morsi waved the Egyptian flag while demonstrating in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Protesters storm Muslim Brotherhood headquarters

Protesters have ransacked the Cairo headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group.

Politics

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley

Daniel Conley tops in fund-raising at nearly $1.27m

The Suffolk district attorney set the pace in June, adding about $78,000 more than any other candidate in the crowded Boston mayoral field.

Business

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Doron Kempel worked at EMC before starting SimpliVity.

Software company helps firms save on data centers

SimpliVity Inc. aims to save customers money and time by virtualizing not just server computers but entire data centers.

Arts

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Book Review

Paul A. Offit is chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

‘Do You Believe in Magic?’ by Paul Offit

The book is a briskly written and well-researched examination of alternative medicine.

Health and wellness

In Practice

A weighty issue with multiple viewpoints

The question of whether obesity itself is a disease has been controversial.

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Rethinking the golden years
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The bee keepers
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Last of their kind
The cover for the June 9 2013 issue

Seaside haven

Globe Insiders

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Full Globe coverage of the gangster’s ongoing trial, life on the run, and notorious legacy in Boston.

Ideas

“To North Korea, the main security threat is not the United States. It is the prosperity, wealth, and prestige of South Korea.”

Sheila Miyoshi Jager,  on the unfinished war between the two Koreas