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Obama pushes tax-cut extension for middle class

President Obama hammered home his campaign pledge of supporting the middle class by calling for an extension to families making less than $250,000 a year.

Elizabeth Warren increases fund-raising pace

Elizabeth Warren, already the nation’s leading congressional fund-raiser, took in more than $8 million over the last three months.

A great white shark approached a kayaker at Nauset Beach on Saturday.

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Kayaker describes ‘oh my God’ moment with shark

Walter Szulc Jr. had never been in a kayak before Saturday, when a great white shark pursued him off of Nauset Beach on Cape Cod.

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Kirsten Greenidge

Pinterest shows craving ‘stuff’ transcends generations

Isn’t the popular website the same thing for adults as a toy store is for children?

Editorial

Ginsu marketing: But wait, there’s more!

The recent death of one of the men behind the ads that famously declared that, “In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife,” has prompted nostalgia for the pair’s most famous product.

Eric McCormack plays a schizophrenic neuroscience professor who helps an FBI agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) in “Perception.’’

Television Review

‘Perception’ less than sum of its quirks

The TNT crime drama enters the schedule at a moment when its brilliant-but-damaged-sleuth premise feels instantly played out.

A downed tree took out power lines last week in Washington, D.C.

Juliette kayyem

Pulling the plug on nation’s security

The ongoing power outages are an epic fail on the world stage. That our capital is in the dark is akin to riots in London or debilitating strikes in Paris.

Daily Dose

Can a teen’s anger mean a mental disorder?

While most teens have a violent, angry outburst at some point, nearly 8 percent have regular violent outbursts that would fall into the category of a mental health disorder.

Fashion Project is Boston-based.

Innovation Economy

New site peddles high-end apparel to benefit charities

Fashion Project collects and sells donated high-end apparel and accessories to support organizations like the March of Dimes.

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“Frame by Frame,” the popular column from Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, is now available as a unique e-book for subscribers to download.

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Amelia Earhart relocated from California to the Boston area in 1925 and often flew from what was then Dennison Airport in Quincy.

Amelia Earhart search revives her local connections

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Globe investigations

Perspective | Ted Dobson

Losing my daughter
Victor Watch observes his son using an iPad. A phone may come soon.

How young is too young for a cellphone?
Fedner Dorrelus (far right) led a hip-hop class as part of Boston’s Afterschool and Beyond program.

Program keeps Boston students learning all summer
Workers install transformers at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, where the focus is on energy efficiency.

New data center focuses on using less energy
Eric McCormack plays a schizophrenic neuroscience professor who helps an FBI agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) in “Perception.’’

Television Review

‘Perception’ is less than sum of its quirks
Renata Simone

G Force

Looking at the grip of AIDS
Debra Jo Rupp as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Barrington Stage Company’s production of “Dr. Ruth, All the Way.’’

Stage Review

The life of Dr. Ruth before she became famous

Daily Dose

Can a teen’s anger mean a mental disorder?
The Rangers have been the most balanced team in the game, with starting pitching, bullpen, hitting, power, and defense.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Handing out MLB’s midseason bests, worsts
Ellen Kokinda removed her vehicle from the corral ­— one of the parking spaces Somerville has set aside for bicyclists.

G Cover

How effective are anti-obesity campaigns?

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Shortstop Xander Bogaerts was the designated hitter and went 1 for 4 (single, two strikeouts, and a groundout) for the World team.

The future is bright for young Red Sox

The Red Sox prospects were giving us a glimpse of what it might be like for Boston in 2014 and beyond at the All-Star Futures Game.

Metro

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An MBTA bus collided with a movie production truck parked outside the Roxbury Municipal Court Monday. Fifteen people, including the bus driver, were being examined by emergency medical personnel.

MBTA bus collides with movie truck in Roxbury

At least 11 people were taken to the hospital after a bus collided with a truck associated with the production of a new Sandra Bullock movie.

Columnists

A downed tree took out power lines last week in Washington, D.C.

Juliette kayyem

Pulling the plug on nation’s security

Tech Lab Plus

Samsung serves up a worthy iPhone rival
Fashion Project is Boston-based.

Innovation Economy

New site peddles high-end apparel to benefit charities

joanna weiss

‘The Newsroom’ and the news: There’s too much of both
US citizenship candidates wait at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles last month.

jeff jacoby

Time to rethink notion of immigration quotas

joan vennochi

When Mitt Romney’s campaign struggles, don’t blame the ‘Boston boys’
Despite high hopes, Konarka’s products never took off.

Innovation Economy

Why did solar cell company Konarka fail?
The T’s economic troubles may have consequences for the economic development of Boston.

opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

MBTA’s troubles bode ill for region

lawrence harmon

Our zero tolerance for moderation regarding drinking
Carl Crawford.

Christopher L. Gasper

Carl Crawford stands by allegation of racial slur

Adrian Walker

From Boston to Tanzania, with a
MITT ROMNEY

opinion | Joshua green

Avoiding risk with the Romney Fog Machine

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A woman looked at a website designed to check for problems stemming from malware known as DNS Changer Monday in Washington, D.C.

Malware threat fizzles as FBI shuts down servers

Fears that millions of Internet users might be knocked offline today haven’t materialized.

Politics

Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement, and Long Island Progressive demonstrated on Sunday against a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at the beachfront home of billionaire David H. Koch (house on right) in Southampton, N.Y.

Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts draw more fire

President Obama’s campaign again blasted Romney for offshore holdings and renewed its call for him to release additional tax returns.

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A man looked at an election campaign poster in Benghazi on Monday.

Former opposition leader is ahead in early Libyan election results

A Libyan political alliance led by former opposition leader Mahmoud Jibril is ahead in the country’s first free election since the removal of Muammar Qaddafi.

Arts

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Book Review

‘Zoobiquity’ by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

The book examines the physiological similarities between humans and animals — as well as some illuminating differences.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

CDC: Methadone overdose kills thousands a year

About 5,000 patients taking the prescription painkiller die every year — the vast majority from accidental overdoses.

“Massachusetts is way ahead of everybody [with its clean energy goals] so, from a practical point of view, the demand is being created by Massachusetts.”

Paul Gaynor,  First Wind chief executive

Magazine

The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

Losing Moira
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

Opinion

“A nuclear Iran or a cyber-threatening China are much more sexy topics than aging infrastructure.”

 Juliette Kayyem

Ideas

“By taking massive numbers of songs, symphonies, and sonatas, turning them into cold, hard data, and analyzing them with computers, we can learn things about music that would have previously been impossible to uncover.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what computers are teaching us about music