Big shifts in summer heat tied to death risk

Large daily temperature may shorten life expectancy for elderly people with chronic medical conditions, potentially causing thousands of deaths each year, a Harvard study has found.

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Tropical Storm Irene still taking toll on trailer park

Seven months after the storm punished Williamstown, nearly 200 residents of The Spruces mobile home park no longer live there, and 158 of 225 trailers have been condemned.

Boston wins authority to control cable fees

In a victory for Mayor Menino, the Federal Communications Commission said that it will restore the City of Boston’s authority to regulate basic cable rates.

Edith Pearlman, here in her Brookline home, has published more than 250 short stories. Her latest collection is “Binocular Vision.’’

Literary awards pile up for Brookline writer

More than 40 years after Brookline’s Edith Pearlman published her first story, she is finally being celebrated by the literary establishment.

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Boston Marathon charity runners race to find donors

The $4,000 BAA minimum for charity runners is $750 higher than last year, and the tens of thousands of fund-raising “athons’’ nationwide mean donors can suffer fatigue.

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Elizabeth Warren sets Mass. Senate fund-raising pace

Warren’s campaign raised $6.9 million in the first three months of the year, continuing her staggering pace and doubling the figure collected by incumbent Scott Brown.

Tenants lined up for old Borders site

Three high-profile merchants are planning to open or expand in the Back Bay building on Boylston Street abandoned by Borders.

100 years later, Harvard takes swings at Fenway

The current Harvard team took batting practice at Fenway Park to mark the 100th anniversary of the 2-0 Red Sox exhibition game victory over the Crimson on April 9, 1912.

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The MFA’s telling portrait of Christ

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion
Borrowing from coats of arms European nobles commissioned from Chinese shops on porcelain dinner services, Michael Lin has painted ornamental designs wheeling up a cylindrical stairwell at the museum.

‘Michael Lin’ connects the ancient, contemporary

Album Review

High praise for Kat Edmonson’s ‘Way Down Low’

Red Sox GM Ben Cherington gets married
Dr. Austen performed surgery on Debra Haining at Massachusetts General Hospital. The dots on her face mark the trigger points where she had told the doctor the migraine pain strikes.

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Migraine sufferers turn to surgery

High-tech Fenway Park keeps its charm
Employees assemble medical scanning devices at a Thermo Fisher plant in Shanghai. Last year, the company’s revenues in China grewby 20 percent.

Mass. firms chasing China’s boom

Pax East ends with a party

Ray Allen shares his love of books

Are fat baseball players a problem?

Martha Coakley publicity stirs political speculation

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Al Qaeda supporter pleads with judge for leniency

Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury and his supporters appealed for leniency in sentencing for his conviction of supporting Al Qaeda. Federal guidelines call for life in prison.

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Microsoft refused to say what the patents cover, but an analyst said they revolve around Internet technology, including advertising, search, and mapping.

Microsoft buys 800 AOL patents for over $1b

Faltering Internet icon AOL was able to squeeze out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

‘Texts from Hillary’ meme shows Clinton in charge

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Profit growth expected to take breather
Josh Beckett may have been smiling on Thursday, but he wasn’t when his first start on Saturday resulted in a 10-0 loss.

Tony Massarotti

Who is to blame for the Red Sox’ many failures?

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The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

Adrian Walker

Judging the judge

Bob Ryan

Celtics made right steps to beat Sixers

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

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What’s great, and not, about the Bay State

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

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Grand jury won’t investigate Florida shooting case

Special prosecutor Angela Corey ruled out a grand jury investigation of the Trayvon Martin killing, leaving the decision of whether to charge the shooter in her hands.

Politics

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Obama intensifies push for ‘Buffett Rule’

The Obama campaign ramped up its advocacy of the “Buffett Rule,’’ which would impose a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent on the wealthiest Americans.

Sports

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Boston 4, Toronto 2

Red Sox shortstop Mike Aviles threw to first after forcing out Toronto’s Kelly Johnson on the first half of a double play during the first inning Monday night.

Red Sox rally for season’s first win

The Red Sox scored three in the ninth, and Alfredo Aceves retired the three batters he faced for the save, as Boston won after opening the season with three straight losses.

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Book Review

Novelist John Grisham has taken on the great American pastime with his story of “Calico Joe.’’

‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham

John Grisham’s new book details a career-ending baseball pitch and a reconciliation sought between two players and an estranged son.

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Billie Jean King: A battler in sport and more

King, 68, who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 39 majors overall during her stellar tennis career, spoke in Boston at the Simmons Leadership Conference.

“Don’t get me wrong, running the Marathon is huge. But what’s more huge is helping this charity.”

Allison Buzzell, 25,  a behavior therapist in Newton

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Opinion

“There was a time, not long ago, when Clinton was the one who seemed to be trying too hard, trying to compete with Barack Obama’s effortless charisma.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Rami Genauer’s project is a kind of experiment — one that asks what happens when you set the powerful urge to watch lawless, explosive violence on a collision course with the blunt tyranny of math”

Leon Neyfakh,  on bringing stats to ultimate fighting