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Florent Groberg, 32, is being credited with saving fellow soldier?s lives with his actions in August 2012.
Biogen making risky shift to Alzheimer?s drugs The stakes are high as the Cambridge biotechnology company focuses on conditions that have long bedeviled researchers.
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Donald Trump stirs pot with backing of 1950s deportationsTrump applauded Dwight Eisenhower?s mass deportation of illegal immigrants, adding fresh fuel to the immigration debate.
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How much air has Ben Carson pumped into his life story?That story is all the GOP hopeful really has to attract supporters, so he needs the mean old media to stop poking holes in it.
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About 38 percent of adults in the United States are now obese, while the rate of childhood obesity has remained steady.
Mass. legislators to call for $15 minimum wage at LoganA bill would require baggage handlers, cleaners, and other workers to be paid at least $15 an hour by 2018.
Proposed federal rule would ban smoking in public housingThe move would open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.
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Widely scorned pharma exec Martin Shkreli livestreaming his lifeThe brash executive has been called ?the face of greed? for hiking the price of a decades-old drug more than fiftyfold.
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The Islamic State group overran the town last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis.
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?Safe space? doesn?t exist, but student protesters winningUnfortunately, student activists are in danger of letting specific grievances get lost in a gauzy, unsatisfiable push for safe spaces.
In wake of Missouri case, will more athletes take on colleges?More and more, today?s college athletes are showing a similar willingness to test the limits of their power through protests.
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Giants can score on Patriots, but defense another storyThe real saving grace for the NFC East-leading Giants has been takeaways, a category in which they lead the NFL.
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Modification lets you play ?Fallout 4? in David Ortiz jerseyWhat better way to fend off attackers in a post-apocalyptic Boston than with a spiked bat and a Red Sox jersey?
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Let?s talk Celtics offense, draft picks, and RondoHere?s the third edition of Adam Himmelsbach and Gary Washburn?s weekly Celtics/NBA discussion.
Innovation Economy
Grasshopper was never bathed in the same glory as today?s unicorns, but it still made its founders incredibly wealthy.
In Wayland antique shop, many hands make lights workIn the Yankee Craftsman?s retail gallery, a restored barn in Wayland, antique chandeliers twinkle like stars.
Endangered turtle killed by ?triple threat of human hazards?The 400-pound male leatherback had been hit by a vessel, ingested harmful plastics, and gotten entangled by ropes.
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Ex-sportscaster Lobel sues golf course over access for disabledNow disabled, the former sportscaster said the Woodland Golf Club in Newton won?t let him use adaptive golf carts.
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James Taylor will play an encore at Fenway Park, this time with Jackson Browne.
Is tracking homelessness on social media sharing or shaming?Advocates for the homeless see the social media chronicling as more harassment than help.
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?Our Many Voices,? a film by adopted youthThere?s no single way to think about being adopted.
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Who gets a bounce from GOP debate? It?s complicatedThe dynamics of the field have shifted into an overall more competitive race for the Republican nomination.
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Patriotic ceremonies and parades were prevalent nationwide on Veterans Day.
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Virtual reality doesn?t taste like CardboardThe VR viewing system included in Sunday?s New York Times works at least as well as 3D TV.
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Vatican puts 2 reporters under investigation in leaks probeThe leaked documents revealed waste, greed, and mismanagement at the highest levels of the Catholic Church hierarchy.
In successive wins over the Jets, Dolphins, and Redskins, the Patriots have given up a combined 141 yards ? a paltry 2.4 yards per carry.
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Each faces charges of receiving stolen property over $250 after the dogs were found safe in Plainville.
In a N.H. trip, the GOP presidential candidate said he plans to hold the US Department of Veterans Affairs accountable.
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?Land Ho!? at the Fitchburg Art Museum places works by eight New England artists among historic landscape paintings from the museum?s collection.
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Donald Trump stirs immigration pot by applauding controversial 1950s deportation program
Bob Lobel accuses Newton golf course of discriminating against disabled
Biogen?s tricky transition from MS to Alzheimer?s
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