Europe’s biotech firms flocking to Bay State

Executives see the Mass. biomedical cluster as a gateway to a US market that increasingly looks like a safe haven from Europe’s debt crisis.

A DNA display was ready to be unpacked for the BIO convention at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

BIO convention comes back to Boston

The Massachusetts life sciences sector has grown and changed noticeably since Boston last played host to the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in 2007.

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Different paths led to a deadly encounter

A Greenland police chief and his alleged killer shared N.H. roots and both sought acclaim in public service, but their lives diverged sharply.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Still a long way to go for gay youth

Being a gay adult is easier in Massachusetts than it is in other places. But if you’re a kid, being gay in this state is still pretty tough.

Joe Resnek has gone from a ‘‘Chelsea punk’’ to a Harvard student to a speechwriter in the Obama administration. He recently listened as Alan Solomont, the US ambassador to Spain, practiced a speech.

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Joe Resnek is writing his way to the top

The Chelsea native has gone from a flourishing stealing-and-selling business to writing speeches for chiefs of staff and agency heads.

Dan Shaughnessy

Some bad vibrations at Wrigley Field

The hours before the Red Sox-Cubs game Saturday night featured enough snubs and awkward moments to fill a full season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.’’

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Theater audiences are growing older

The millennials, so financially strapped that they’ve been dubbed “Generation Debt,’’ might well feel that they’re in no position to be regular patrons.

Students laud Obama’s immigration decision

For many youths living in America illegally, the president’s announcement that the federal government will allow young immigrants eligibility for work permits was a game-changer.

A father’s sacrifice is his son’s calling

For the sons and daughters of the nine firefighters killed in the 1972 Verdome Hotel fire, including BFD District Fire Chief Richard Magee Jr., Father’s Day remains bittersweet.

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From Josiah McElheny’s curiosity about cosmology came “Island Universe’’ (2008), a collection of glass and chrome starburst-like sculptures that some critics consider his most ambitious work.

Josiah McElheny’s expanding universe

Pixar’s new ‘Brave’ is fueled by girl power

Syrian President Bashar Assad (center) at a 2011 ceremony in Damascus to mark the 38th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli war.

The world according to Bashar Assad

Cruise’s latest film is the new release “Rock of Ages.”

Critic’s Notebook

Tom Cruise continues his odd trajectory

Quorum-busting

ideas

Five obscure tactics to snarl Congress

Writer-director Lorene Scafaria at the Liberty Hotel.

Movies

It’s her ‘End of the World,’ and she feels fine
Camping at Pawtuckaway Lake, in south-central New Hampshire, offers hiking trails, mountains, a family beach, and islands in the lake.

Travel

8 beautiful campgrounds in New England

Ideas

The long, strange quest to detect plant consciousness

Dan Shaughnessy

Dale Sveum was skipped over by Red Sox

Nurses trading in drab scrubs for fashionable workwear

Magazine

What if spanking works?

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Why aren’t you taking your vacation time?

Sports

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Red Sox hang on to defeat the Cubs

Jarrod Saltalamacchia homered to back a strong start by Jon Lester as Boston won the second game of its weekend series in Chicago.

Metro

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Emma Miller (center) tried to squeeze in during a game of musical chairs.

Musical chairs event attracts 1,500

Players attempted to set a new record for the largest game of musical chairs at Amesbury Sports Park. Though the game fell short of the 10,000-player target, the winner took home $10,000.

Columnists

opinion | jeff jacoby

Vulgar speech can’t be banned, but should be curbed

joan vennochi

Another Kennedy spin?

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Still a long way to go for gay youth

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

The word from dads at home
Verastem executives (from left) Robert Forrester, Robert Weinberg, and Christoph Westphal.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money

Adrian Walker

For immigrants, a sigh of relief

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Look to Canadian authors for a good read
Nik Wallenda walks a cable to practice for his walk over Niagara Falls Friday.

opinion | Scot Lehigh

Going over the top at Niagara Falls

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Scott Brown stuck in neutral

Yvonne Abraham

In Wellesley High’s you’re-not-special speech, larger truths

Boston Capital

New Internet domain ideas for Boston businesses

Brian McGrory

View from the top at Liberty Mutual

Business

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On The Job

Greg Tremelling inside a truck container built for a large-scale battery system.

A123 engineer making batteries better, bigger

Greg Tremelling, 31, is an electrical engineering manager who leads the big battery team at the Waltham advanced battery maker.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Mitt Romney rerouted his tour after Pennsylvania’s former governor, Ed Rendell, and several other Democratic officials held a press conference outside the Wawa gas station where the former Massachusetts governor had planned an early afternoon stop.

Romney goes off Pa. itinerary to avoid Dems

Democrats pushed likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney off of his original itinerary as his bus tour wound through Pennsylvania.

Nation & World

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Michelle Obama’s ancestry linked to slave owners

The discovery underscores the entangled histories and racial intermingling that continue to bind countless US families more than 140 years after the Civil War.

Arts

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Critic’s Notebook

Cruise’s latest film is the new release “Rock of Ages.”

Tom Cruise continues his odd trajectory with ‘Rock of Ages’

Remember when we thought we knew who Tom Cruise was? Our mistake.

Books

book review

‘The Obamians’ by James Mann

Mann’s “Obamians” is the successor volume to “Rise of the Vulcans,” his sketch of the foreign-policy worldview of those surrounding George W. Bush.

Travel

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Kid friendly

After some games at Turner Field in Atlanta, kids get to run the bases.

10 baseball diamonds for the young at heart

Baseball teams are trying to find ways to appeal to the entire family — making the stadium a destination where there’s more to do than just watch baseball.

“When you tell me or my father we want something done, we get it done. We either do it the Chelsea way or the right way, but it gets done.”

Joe Resnek 

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Opinion

“Would [Mitt] Romney do better [than President Obama]? The pragmatic man who was once governor might; one feels less certain about the presumptive GOP nominee.”

Tom Keane 

Ideas

“Bashar Assad was, relatively speaking, normal, even a bit of a computer nerd. I should know: I spent more time face-to-face with him than perhaps any other American.”

David W. Lesch,  on the making of a Syrian dictator