Amid tight supply, Boston rents soar

With monthly rents averaging $1,881 and a dearth of new apartments, many residents will have a harder time finding an affordable place to live.

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Paul Ryan, tapped as Mitt Romney’s running mate on Saturday and known as a budget hawk, wrote letters in 2009 asking for stimulus funds to benefit his home state.

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Paul Ryan’s plan to cut taxes, slash spending, and revamp Medicare represents an unprecedented reduction in spending.

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Neil Entwistle appeared in court during his murder trial in 2008 in Woburn.

SJC rejects appeal by Neil Entwistle

The state’s highest court has upheld the murder convictions of Entwistle for the deaths of his wife and nine-month-old daughter in 2006.

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Glassblowing is hot at MIT

On the campus of one of the world’s most technologically advanced schools, glassblowing is the most popular of all extracurricular activities.

MIT has had a glassblowing furnace in the bowels of its Building 4 for four decades.

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MIT has had a glassblowing furnace in the bowels of its Building 4 for four decades.

Peter Houk (left) has been director of the MIT glass lab since 1997.

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Peter Houk (left) has been director of the MIT glass lab since 1997.

Snagging a spot can be competitive. 120 students apply via lottery for 16 open slots in each fall’s beginner glassblowing class.

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Snagging a spot can be competitive — 120 students apply via lottery for 16 open slots in each fall’s beginner glassblowing class.

Originally, it was used in a lab course, to blow oddly shaped beakers needed for experiments.

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Originally, it was used in a lab course, to blow oddly shaped beakers needed for experiments.

Glassblowing is a bit of a team sport, providing a way for students to sharpen their collaboration skills.

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Glassblowing is a bit of a team sport, providing a way for students to sharpen their collaboration skills.

In recent years, interest in the glassblowing class as exploded.

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In recent years, interest in the glassblowing class has exploded.

In addition to teaching students and former students, Houk recently demonstrated his skills to a group from the ICA.

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In addition to teaching students and former students, Houk recently demonstrated his skills to a group from Boston’s ICA.

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After a weekend of violence that left four people dead and five others wounded, Mayor Menino said the public must help police solve the crimes.

Carrying a trademark fungo bat, Johnny Pesky salutes the crowd on Sept. 28, 2008, when the Red Sox retired his No. 6 at Fenway Park.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox lose link between past and present

The foul pole, the retired number, and the statue are well-deserved, but we don’t need them to remind us of Johnny Pesky, Boston baseball’s nicest guy.

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Roses were placed at the feet of Johnny Pesky on the “Teammates” statue outside Fenway Park Monday.

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Nick Hornby’s reading ranges as widely as do his monthly columns for The Believer literary magazine.

Book review

‘More Baths Less Talking’ by Nick Hornby

editorial

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Boston.com has hired six former WFNX staffers, including Henry Santoro, to staff RadioBDC.

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Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years
Kenya Jackson swallows his morning dose of HIV medication.

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Community health workers help HIV patient change attitude, life

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Amtrak’s $16 burger
Traffic approaches the Bourne Bridge on Interstate 495 heading onto Cape Cod. On crowded summer weekends, roads are clogged on the Cape, and cellphones stop working.

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On Cape Cod, upgrades come by the megabyte
Summer cottages dot the southern end of Conomo Point Road in Essex.

Town, longtime residents battle over Conomo Point rights
Kevin Craddock, a recovering addict, says “I’ve been around the legal system a lot, but never like this.”

Boston’s Homeless Court helps defendants get a fresh start
Bain Capital, with $65 billion in assets, has been squarely in the political limelight ever since Mitt Romney’s Republican primary rivals began knocking his private-sector background as “vulture capitalism.”

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Fans showed support for their countries in all manner, such as this Australian fan in the London underground.

Olympics are a show to experience

In person, the chaotic, intimate, fun-loving London Olympic experience was much different than the neatly packaged production beamed around the world.

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Aly Raisman of Needham received a gold medal in women’s gymnastics floor exercise at the London Olympics.

Raisman, team will make the rounds of New York talk shows

With a full week of appearances ahead of her, Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman marked her return to the US by tweeting “HELLO AMERICA” Monday.

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Unbaby.me, the hipsters, and the Ryan Plan
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (L) attend a memorial service for six people killed in an attack the day before on a Wisconsin Sikh temple on August 6, 2012 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin -- a temple just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the scene of the August 5 bloodshed -- to honor the six people killed and three critically wounded in what police are calling a

Farah Stockman

A culture of hate

Adrian Walker

TSA employees had to go outside system to report profiling

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German tech gets teeth ultra-clean
Mitt Romney will no longer be able to hide behind strategic ambiguity about his budget and tax cut plans with Paul Ryan as his running mate.

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With Ryan, Romney faces tougher sell to undecided voters
Kyra Sedgwick has a few of her emotionally devastating moments in tonight’s “Closer” series finale.

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A eulogy for TNT’s ‘The Closer’
Xian Wen Li said he was among those cheated by May Woo of Sky Energy Travel in Chinatown.

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Chinatown travel agency gives immigrants a tough lesson

Dan Shaughnessy

A few thoughts come bobbing up

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An old wedge issue returns in the campaign

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Why should we beg anyone to vote?

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years

LAWRENCE HARMON

Does anthrax risk end at city limits?

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Apple contends that Samsung has copied the look of the iPhone and iPad, which has diluted the value of its brands.

Apple witness estimates Samsung would owe $2.5 billion

The dispute is the first to go before a federal jury in a battle being waged on four continents for dominance in a smartphone market valued at $219.1 billion.

Politics

Brown praises Ryan, but keeps distance

Senator Scott Brown remained cautious in lauding Mitt Romney’s new running mate as Democrats tried to tie Brown to Paul Ryan’s policy proposals.

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CORRECTS AGE TO 35 INSTEAD OF 43 - This undated photo provided by the City of College Station, Texas shows Thomas Caffall. Caffall, 35, has been identified by authorities as the shooter who opened fire from inside his home in College Station as he was being served an eviction notice, killing Brazos County constable Brian Bachmann and another man, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/City of College Station)

Gunman shot dead after killing 2 near Texas A&M

A gunman opened fire on police near Texas A&M University Monday, killing at least two people and wounding four others before being killed by police, officials said.

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Photography review

“Flushing Meadow” is one of Philip Jones’s nocturnal urban images.

Looking out and in at the Photographic Resource Center

Three photographers at a showcase at the PRC offer images of the external world, and three are showing an internal world of emotion and states of mind.

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Professor Nancy Cott (above) says the sympsosium on Julia Child will take a holistic approach.

Julia Child turns 100 at Radcliffe

For her centenary, the library is sponsoring a symposium Sept. 21, free and open to the public.

“If rents keep going up, you’re going have to be some superstar lawyer or businessman to afford a decent place in Boston.”

David Mailloux, 37 

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Opinion

“There is a growing sense, even from the hipsters, that one person’s entitlement is somebody else’s personal burden.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“The changing ways we’ve seen summer reading — first as an indulgence, then as a vice, and now, somewhat surprisingly, as a source of pride — says a lot about our changing attitudes toward just what leisure should be.”

Craig Fehrman