Mass. in spotlight as US adopts health care fee

Policy advocates say the state’s law lays out a finan­cial and moral incentive to get coverage. But it is not clear the approach can be effectively replicated nationally.

Mitt Romney’s team taking fire from right

Prominent conservative Republicans excoriated Romney’s campaign, ridiculing his main advisers and suggesting they are bungling the presidential race.

Homes like this one in Wellesley are putting and end to the idea that prefabs are boxy, cheaply made structures.

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Prefab homes go upscale, with prices to match

Manufactured housing, once considered to be cheap, drab construction and tarnished by a trailer-park image, has taken an upscale turn.

Episcopal Bishops Thomas Shaw (left) and Gene Robinson marched in this year’s gay pride parade in Boston

Episcopalians review a new rite for gay unions

Episcopalians are expected to overwhelmingly approve trial use of a new liturgy for blessing same-sex unions.

A knife sharpener was a common sight of the streets of Boston in the decade leading up to the 1940 Census.

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Census records bring 1940s Boston to life

The city was dominated by machinists and mechanics, laborers and craftsmen, the census shows.

Boston Capital

Time to cut off Boston Beer’s investors

Boston Beer and the craft brewing business have a lot to cheer about. But beer fans — investors or drinkers — should know when they’ve had enough.

Pitcher Vicente Padilla handed the ball to Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine after surrendering a grand slam in the seventh inning against the Yankees on April 21.

Red Sox, Yankees to see a lot of each other

From Friday night through the final day of the season Oct. 3, the Sox and Yankees are scheduled to play 16 times.

Efforts to provide an ideal environment for the birds led to the nest building and egg laying, a zoo official said.

In rare event, hummingbird lays egg at Franklin Park Zoo

The zoo’s staff was pleasantly surprised to find an egg early Wednesday morning because the birds rarely breed in captivity.

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Tourists on the Fort Independence on Thursday viewed tall ships berthed at Fish Pier for Navy Week festivities.

Boston business boomed during July Fourth holiday week
“In the Still of the Night” by Carmen Cicero.

Art Review

Harrison and Cicero on exhibit in Provincetown
Kelly Smith of the Breakers had a ball doing drills for her audience at the South Shore YMCA in Hanover.

Is there a future for women’s pro soccer?
Benh Zeitlin with Quvenzhané Wallis, during a Boston visit to promote “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”

How Benh Zeitlin tamed ‘Beasts’
Chandler Studios Boston, a 12-room property in the South End, will be Boston’s newest hotel when it opens in August.

Hundreds of hotel rooms planned for Boston
Lupone kicked off the “Broad­­way at the Art House’’ series.

Stage Review

Patti LuPone delivers vocal fireworks in Provincetown
Fire Station Beach in Quincy

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Top 5 places to cool down south of Boston
In the East Boston tunnel, a worker on April 10, 1932 ties in the reinforcing rods of the curved ceiling that will be buried in the concrete.

From the Archives

The Sumner Tunnel
Garo, Scott McNeff, and Joshua Steele.

Boston’s male exotic dancers talk ‘Magic Mike’

The new Nexus 7 tablet.

Tech Lab

Google Nexus tablet comes out on top

Catholic hospital reaches out to Orthodox Jews
Tasty Burger’s cheeseburgers.

Boston swept up by burger boom

Sports

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Brandon Bass, right, of the Celtics battled Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat on June 5 in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Brandon Bass, Celtics agree on three-year deal

Bass averaged 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds, both career highs, this past season in 59 games, 39 as a starter.

Metro

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Emergency responders aided the injured couple watching fireworks on Dorchester Heights.

Couple in Boston hit by lightning are recovering

Lightning struck Jerome and Megan Gale Hranka as they took in the pyrotechnic panorama atop Dorchester Heights.

Columnists

MITT ROMNEY

Joshua green

Avoiding risk with the Romney Fog Machine

SCOT LEHIGH

Former hitchhiker recalls a more trusting past

CARLO ROTELLA

Put down the phone; real life abounds

Boston Capital

Time to cut off Boston Beer’s investors

Juliette Kayyem

Immigrants, native-born see eye to eye
Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney took to a jet ski on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Monday.

Joan Vennochi

Romney on a jet ski — his Kerry moment?

Scot Lehigh

We need more statues

Jeff Jacoby

Celebrating, royal-free

Yvonne Abraham

Nonprofit came to family’s aid

Boston Capital

Stock pickers need years to regain trust
Ma Ying-jeou, now president of Taiwan, rallied supporters in 2006.

Farah stockman

How a Harvard rivalry changed Taiwan

Juliette Kayyem

The politics of disaster

Business

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Job seekers filled out applications at a New York job fair in June. The economy added an average of 73,000 jobs a month in April and May — not enough to lower the jobless rate.

US hiring outlook improves, but economy still weak

The government said fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week and surveys of private companies showed hiring increased in June.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Romney ups fund-raising bar with June haul

Mitt Romney’s joint fund-raising committee brought in more than $100 million in June, Politico reported, outpacing the $76.8 million he raised in May.

Nation & World

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Journalists in protective gear toured the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in February. Nuclear power returned to Japan’s energy mix for the first time in months Thursday, as an investigative panel issued a report on the 2011 disaster.

Panel blames Japan nuclear disaster on errors

The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a preventable disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and a culture of conformity, a parliamentary inquiry concluded Thursday.

Arts

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Scene & Heard

Mission of Burma’s second act is more than a comeback

The group escaped the realm of “comeback story” long ago, morphing now into something even weirder — a grown-up, modern fable of how to be a band.

Movies

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Benh Zeitlin with Quvenzhané Wallis, during a Boston visit to promote “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”

How Benh Zeitlin tamed ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’

Zeitlin’s debut feature follows 6-year-old heroine Hushpuppy and her father in a small community on the Gulf of Mexico in the days before and after Katrina. It opens in Boston on Friday.

“It’s a craze. Everybody’s doing it, and I’m jumping on the bandwagon.”

Evan Deluty,  local restauranteur who plans to open a burger bar

Magazine

The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
The cover for the June 3 2012 issue

40 ideas for your New England summer weekends

Opinion

“At stake in even the most minor everyday episode is how you connect to other people and the world around you.”

Carlo Rotella 

Ideas

“In a growing body of work, Timur Kuran argues that the blame for the Islamic world’s economic stagnation lies with a set of institutions that Islamic law created over centuries.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on the economic toll of Islamic law