An $83 sling and no simple answers
The cloth sling James Dichter was fitted with cost his insurer $83; it can be bought online for $7.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

James Dichter wondered why his health insurer paid $83 for a basic cloth sling, even though it can be found online for $7.

Matthew Tomsicek earns money through YouTube.

Many reap profit in posting YouTube videos

Thanks to YouTube’s Partner Program, a new class of digital auteurs are turning the popularity of their videos into profits.

When umpire Dan Bellino ruled Dustin Pedroia had been thrown out at first base in the fifth, manager Bobby Valentine argued and got thrown out, too.

Christopher L. Gasper

Will the Sox stick with Bobby Valentine?

If Valentine is their manager for next year, the Red Sox need to come out and say it. End all the speculation.

Ned Coltman and his mother, Judy, of Reading, removed his Eagle Scout badge from his Boy Scout uniform.

Eagle Scouts use badges to decry gay ban

Some Eagle Scouts in Massachusetts are sending complaints or even returning their awards in response to the Boy Scouts’ ban on openly gay members.

Clouds covered the sky above the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Monday.

GOP going forward with convention despite storm

The Republican National Convention sputters to life Monday with the banging of a gavel in a mostly empty hall, then hits full speed on Tuesday.

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In Tampa, the Bay Staters will be front and center, the home-state delegation of Mitt Romney, the GOP’s first presidential nominee from Massachusetts in 88 years.

Environmental scientists Lucas Chapman and Emily Coumbassa got stormwater samples at a manhole in the Fenway last week. Finding pollution sources is a painstaking process.

New effort to curtail sewage in Boston

A settlement reached in federal court promises an accelerated attack on pollution from the labyrinth of pipes under Boston and from pavement runoff.

Springfield looks to narrow its casino field

The city will reveal its plans for whittling as many as four proposals down to one, though critics say the tactic could hurt its chances to win a casino license.

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Tim McGraw (left) and Kenny Chesney (shown in Las Vegas in April) shared the stage at the end of the Gillette concert.

Music Review

Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney shine at Gillette
Men’s gymnast Kohei Uchimura vaults at the 2011 NHK Cup in Tokyo.

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Will men always be the swifter sex?
Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman waved to her hometown fans Sunday.

Needham rallies behind gold medalist Aly Raisman

IN PRACTICE

For physicians and patients, time is best medicine

From the annals of Britain’s UFO Desk

A footpath winds along the shoreline of Curtis Island.

travel

4 Maine island adventures close to shore

Ideas

The people with no lobby in Washington
Actor David Greenspan and director Rebecca Taichman work on a scene from “Marie Antoinette,” in rehearsal in Cambridge.

Rumblings of the 99% in ‘Marie Antoinette’
“For what we got paid, that job was crazy,” said Jesse Carter, who worked on the renovation of the Copley Place Marriott.

A story of hope, and a lopsided deal
This Tang dynasty earthen­­-ware figure is from “Unearth-ed,” one of three China-centric exhibits at the Clark Art Institute.

Art Review

A century on, a return to China in ‘Through Shen-kan’
This ad, which appeared in Fortune in 1969, made clear that gender equality at the office still had a way to go.

Ideas | Q&A

What happened when women joined the office
In Hpa An, a ceremony welcoming girls to the Buddhist nunhood.

travel

After 50 years of solitude, Myanmar welcomes company

Sports

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Ben Cherington, general manager of the Boston Red Sox, spoke at a press conference on August 25, 2012.

Ben Cherington talks Red Sox’ blockbuster trade

In a radio appearance Monday, the Red Sox general manager said the team will look for players with good discipline and who provide good value.

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Brian Cumming of Shelburne Farm picked Gala apples Saturday. Warm weather in March resulted in early ripening this summer, he said.

Bountiful apple crop arrives early in New England

Apples at New England orchards are ready for harvest well ahead of Labor Day, the traditional start of picking season.

Columnists

Russian beach volleyball players Anastasiia Vasina and Anna Vozakova practice at the Olympic Village in London.

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London could show how to build a better Olympics

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‘Guardian Angels’ won’t fix a flawed Afghan war policy
When umpire Dan Bellino ruled Dustin Pedroia had been thrown out at first base in the fifth, manager Bobby Valentine argued and got thrown out, too.

Christopher L. Gasper

Will the Red Sox stick with Bobby Valentine?
Vercheesa Thompson (above left) of Dorchester, facilitator Candace Keshwar, Michelle Eunis, and Suheil Riveramet in Jamaica Plain last week while Sherina Hendrix (below) played with their children. The mothers’ group is creating its own child-care cooperative.

Yvonne Abraham

Program helps families create own solutions
Laila Ali is one of eight celebrities competing on the war-based reality show “Stars Earn Stripes.”

JOANNA WEISS

Does ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ glorify war?

JEFF JACOBY

Both parties are too extreme on abortion

INNOVATION ECONOMY

What happens when a trend never touches down
Jackie, Sue, and Lynn as seen in “49 Up,” a 2005 British film that is part of a decades-long series of documentaries.

Joan Wickersham

A study of class captures shape, sweep of real lives

Lawrence Harmon

Mass. needs to update wiretap laws

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s big tent collapses

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Big-box stores are in big trouble
Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, and Adrian Gonzalez have underachieved and are on the verge of being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Blockbuster Red Sox trade signifies end of failed era

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Paints on a stairwell in Chicago’s subway system.

Creating bright ways to light the way

Inside a red-brick 19th-century cotton mill on the banks of the Merrimack River, Performance Indicator LLC is making colorful paints that gleam brightly all night long.

Politics

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President Obama’s campaign has defended his allusion to Mitt Romney strapping his dog to the top of a car, and Romney’s camp has defended a birth certificate joke

Rivals see little humor in each others’ jokes

When it comes to cracking jokes about each other, President Obama and Mitt Romney’s campaigns appear to be better at dishing it out than taking it.

Nation & World

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‘‘Right now, it seems like we’re taxed so much, but if that would be the only way to go, I guess I’d have to be for it to preserve it,’’ said Marge Youngs, 77, of Toledo, Ohio.

Most OK raising social security taxes, poll finds

Most Americans would favor raising taxes and the retirement age rather than cutting Social Security benefits for future generations, a survey indicated.

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Book Review

In “Fire in the Ashes,” activist Jonathan Kozol returns to the South Bronx.

‘Fire in the Ashes’ by Jonathan Kozol

In his new book, the education activist returns to the South Bronx to bring readers up to date on the children he has followed for decades.

Health and wellness

G Force

“I had one participant who said, ‘It feels like my stories are carried on my back and one by one I’m unloading the burden,’ ” said Pamela Post-Ferrante.

Using writing to aid the healing process

Pamela Post-Ferrante, who had four major cancer surgeries in the 1990s, recently wrote a book to help individuals and groups use writing as therapy.

“There was always an assumption in other delegations that everything in Massachusetts is like Cambridge writ large; like everyone is walking around with a beret on.”

Peter Blute,  deputy chairman of the state Republican party

Magazine

The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“States need to maintain their commitment to assuring health coverage to those who need it most. It’s not just the right thing to do; it makes economic sense.”

Globe editorial 

Ideas

“In decades of researching American political lobbies, we have found that there are huge gaps in who is represented in Washington.”

—Kay Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady