Insurers to stay with key benefits of US health law

The largest insurers in Mass. have pledged to extend two popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act even if the Supreme Court decides to overturn the law.

Boston considers hike in retirees’ pensions

As cities and states across the US take aim at public employee pensions, Boston City Hall is engaged in a very different debate: how much to increase retirees’ checks.

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Vertex to fund partnership with Boston schools

Mayor Menino and Vertex executives will unveil plans of a $1.45 million partnership on Monday that would allow students to work with scientists.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bobby Valentine no longer in comfort of the booth

One day you’re asking the Red Sox manager annoying questions; a year later you’re sitting behind the guy’s desk, filling out a lineup card.

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Parents of slain Northeastern student try to move on

For Thomas and Virginia Payne, the parents of victim Rebecca Payne, Monday’s arraignment of accused killer Cornell Smith marks the beginning of the end of their time in the US.

At Roxbury Community College, the overall enrollment has slipped slightly since 2009 to 2,744.

Controversy still grips Roxbury Community College

Allegations that the school failed to report serious crimes on campus have critics pointing to what they say are ingrained problems.

Probailout party wins in Greece

Greek voters narrowly favored a center-right party in Parliamentary elections Sunday, a result that is likely to ease fears that the country will leave the eurozone.

Boston tightens rules on City Hall nuptials

The changes fall far short of City Council proposals that would have stopped the city clerk from keeping tens of thousands of dollars in fees for performing weddings during the workday.

Brewer, distiller concoct a joint venture

Boston Beer Co., maker of Sam Adams beers, will produce two whiskeys in partnership with Berkshire Mountain Distillers in Great Barrington.

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President Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine.”

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Panic sets in at the White House
Cary Tedder and Jacquelyn Piro Donovan in “Hello, Dolly!’’ at North Shore Music Theatre.

Stage Review

Slightly shifted focus in ‘Hello, Dolly!’
After some games at Turner Field in Atlanta, kids get to run the bases.

Kid friendly

10 top US baseball parks for families
Director Alex Timbers (forefront) onstage with Ruthie Ann Miles (left) during the first rehearsal of “Here Lies Love” at Mass MoCA.

The immersive tale of Imelda Marcos
Robert C. Hinckley painting,

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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Theater audiences are growing older
A DNA display was ready to be unpacked for the BIO convention at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

BIO convention comes back to Boston
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.

Joe Resnek is writing his way to the top
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
Derek Fisher, 37, has emerged as the first guard off the bench for the Thunder as he seeks his sixth NBA title.

Sunday basketball notes

Amid calls for ouster, Derek Fisher keeps going

Sports

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Kalish comes up big in return to ‘Show’

Ryan Kalish, recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket before Sunday’s game, had a tiebreaking RBI single for the Red Sox.

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Visitors gaze at Morticia, an amorphophallus titanum, in a temporary greenhouse at the Franklin Park Zoo in Dorchester.

Curiosity for Franklin Park Zoo’s ‘corpse flower’

When the rare, 4-foot-6-inch plant affectionately known as Morticia finally blooms, the flower will emit an odor of rotting flesh.

Columnists

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio-industry

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

Innovation Economy

Lighting the way for better bulbs

Dan Shaughnessy

Bobby Valentine no longer in comfort of the booth

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

Dan Shaughnessy

Some bad vibrations at Wrigley Field
Verastem executives (from left) Robert Forrester, Robert Weinberg, and Christoph Westphal.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money
Actor Robert Young, the perfect dad in “Father Knows Best,” is surrounded by his television family.

Beverly Beckham

The things today’s dads do

Adrian Walker

For immigrants, a sigh of relief

Business

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Greek vote offers hope but markets may still ail

Despite a victory for the probailout party in Sunday’s election in Greece, the bumpy ride for global financial markets isn’t over yet.

Politics

Mitt Romney refused to say what he would do about President Obama’s immigration order if he is elected president.

Romney criticizes Obama’s immigration order

Mitt Romney called President Obama’s executive order benefitting illegal immigrants politically motivated but refused to say if he would revoke it.

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Muslim Brotherhood claims win in Egypt vote

The Muslim Brotherhood projected its candidate as the presidential victor after the military-led government issued an interim constitution to protect its power.

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MUSIC REVIEW

Rascal Flatts (above, at the 2012 CMA Music Festival) headlined the annual Country 102.5 festival Saturday at the Comcast Center.

Rascal Flatts gets groups going at fest

The band headlined the Country 102.5 festival and its set was an 80-minute no-turbulence zone of radio hits.

Health and wellness

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Acupuncture closer to being widely accepted

A new clinical trial shows that the technique works better than a sham treatment to relieve not just pain but other symptoms that are less subjective to measure.

“She won’t be forgotten, but it’s sort of too painful here. There are too many memories, too many places she used to go.”

Virginia Payne,  on her daughter, Rebecca, who was killed in her Mission Hill apartment

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Opinion

“Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.”

John E. Sununu 

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