Why Boston?

The region is not alone in facing terrorist attacks and plots, but its international reach may play a role, analysts say.

Environmental specialists (from left) Jon Regosin, Jorge Ayub, and Sean Riley checked on hatchlings at Revere Beach.

A resurgence of plovers rankles beachgoers

The state has been so successful in nurturing the birds back to health that their nesting areas are consuming wide swaths of beaches.

The area where a fan was injured at Fenway Park on Friday night.

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Fan?s injury highlights hazards at ballparks

?I?m always telling them, ?Watch the game, watch the game,? because anything can happen,? David Ortiz said.

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Medical personnel attended to the woman at the ballpark before taking her to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. headquarters on State Street in Springfield.

Big money, little scrutiny in mutual firms

Firms like MassMutual and Liberty Mutual operate in an opaque, poorly understood, and often immensely profitable world.

A group of advocates has a message for legislators: Don?t allow the T to raise fares by more than five percent every two years.

Starts & Stops

Advocates for T riders lobby to keep fare limits

The group has a message for legislators: Don?t allow the T to raise fares by more than 5 percent every two years.

Blaze destroys nine apartments in Charlestown

A three-alarm fire ripped through the sides of two three-story buildings in Charlestown on Saturday evening, officials said.

BELMONT STAKES

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The odds-on favorite becomes the first horse in 37 years to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont.

Boston is about to sprout a lot of tall ? very tall ? new towers. Pictured: The Prudential tower rising over the Back Bay.

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CRITIC?S NOTEBOOK

What makes a good tower?

A development boom is going to reshape Boston?s skyline, which raises the question: What?s a good tower, anyway, and what?s a bad one?

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Yvonne_Abraham_150px-8897.jpg A rush to judge at the Boston Public Library

Usually, a beleaguered official?s boss will try to hold off the bloodhounds. This did not happen for library chief Amy Ryan.

Hanley Ramirez  launched a two-run homer that gave the Red Sox a lead in the first inning.

Red Sox 4, Athletics 2

Red Sox get past A?s again

Hanley Ramirez homered and Joe Kelly pitched six strong innings in the win.

Oil rig deployments and applications for new oil well permits have dropped sharply in some areas of the country, affecting such places as Williston, N.D.

Amid low prices, US oil output may be nearing peak

The Energy Department projected that US oil production will begin declining as soon as 2020 ? just five years from now.

The Clam Box in Ipswich is noted for its iconic clam-box-shaped building.

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SUBURBAN HANDBOOK: SUMMER EATING

How far would you go for a clam roll?

Sweet and salty, crunchy and chewy, nothing says summer like fried clams stuffed into a butter-toasted hot dog roll.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Boston?s Olympic bid has been one disaster after another

We?re waiting for Boston 2024 to show us something, anything, that will turn the negativity that is killing this process.

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special section | diversity boston

The evolution of diversity

How diversity ? in the workplace and elsewhere ? has evolved over the years, and why it?s still necessary.

Cheap Eats reviews

Budget-friendly fare around Boston

These restaurants feature dishes you can order for under $20.

Ground Game

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Senator Lindsey Graham?s worst-case scenario ? losing the South Carolina primary badly ? could be politically fatal.

Opinion

Michael A. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/06/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/cohen-1228.jpg Rand Paul?s pandering makes his hypocrisy obvious

The Republican presidential candidate is more than willing to make exceptions to his strict libertarian views.

The Big Picture

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Fruits of wrath

Fruit pickers in Mexico have blocked roads and staged marches since March as frustration over working conditions boiled over.