New rules define unsafe drivers

The new rules, which make clear that age and illness are not by themselves disqualifying, define what it means to be too physically or cognitively impaired to drive safely.

Mass. Senate, House health plans vie for savings

In a plan to be unveiled today, Senate leaders will call for less aggressive spending limits on the health care industry than the House proposed, and fewer controls on high-priced hospitals.

Fidelity: Retired couples need $240,000 for health care

A newly retired couple will need almost a quarter million dollars to cover health care expenses, up 4 percent from last year, Fidelity Investments estimates.

Despite protests, scrutiny of illegal immigrants to rise

A controversial federal program targeting illegal immigrants, particularly criminals, will expand in the state on May 15.

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John Kerry lamented Richard Lugar’s loss in the Indiana Republican primary as “a blow to the institution.”

SJC rules against property owner’s Cape Wind challenge

The state’s highest court rejected a bid by Thomas Melone of Martha’s Vineyard, who argued that the giant wind turbine farm would have “adverse effects” on him.

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Former students buoyed final days of violinist Totenberg

Violinist Roman Totenberg, who died Tuesday in his Newton home at age 101, was visited in his final days by many former students who paid their respects by playing at his bedside for hours at a time.

Has the Red Sox pitching staff become so bad that the team might consider trading Jon Lester?

Analysis

Time for Red Sox to blow up pitching staff?

It’s no longer an anomaly. The Red Sox pitching staff has proven itself insufficient. What’s the fix? Maybe a Nomar Garciaparra-like trade that radically changes the staff.

Brian McGrory

Very friendly skies for insurance execs

Liberty Mutual isn’t the only Mass. insurance company with a taste for the high life. Springfield-based MassMutual has a pair of planes that regularly haunt airports in Florida.

Rajon Rondo (13 points, 6-of-17 shooting) ran out of time after stealing the ball in the final seconds, dribbling into a crowd, then failing to get off a shot or a pass as the Celtics lost Game 5.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics will not cough up this series

The loss in Game 5 was merely a setback. There is no way the Celtics will lose three straight to the embarrassing Hawks.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Dan Wasserman

Editorial cartoon: Mourning Maurice Sendak

Another NStar outage draws questions, outrage

Steve Wynn drops casino proposal
Aaron Kirley, cofounder of luggage shipping company Luggage Forward, in the company's Boston office.

Five Mass. companies on Inner City 100
Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German shepherd, Herman.

Path-setting children’s author Maurice Sendak dies
Leslie Feist (pictured last month in Indio, Calif.) and her band Feist played the House of Blues Monday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Feist’s singular voice soars at House of Blues
Rod’s Grille has been serving hot wieners since 1955.

A Tank aWAY

Vibrant village packed with arts, boutiques, history
Top: Dan dan mein, noodles topped with a spicy pork and mushroom ragu.

Making the most of Moksa

Book Review

‘I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)’ by Stephen Colbert

Grateful alumnus gives BC, BC High total $27m

To Grammar’s House

Hopefully, we’ll see it rarely
The late Adam Yauch (top) and his film company produced small, weird, and unheralded movies such as “Wendy and Lucy,” with Michelle Williams; “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” starring Tilda Swinton and Rocky Duer; the Banksy film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”; and “The Messenger,” with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster.

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Yauch’s small victories lost amid ‘Avengers’ weekend

Sports

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On basketball

With no timeouts left, coach Doc Rivers yells for Rajon Rondo to hurry up after he stole the ball in the final seconds.

Celtics stumbled at the end of the game

The Celtics didn’t overlook the Hawks, but they weren’t as prepared as they needed to be either. And it cost them.

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Hebrew College cancels sale of campus

Eighteen months after the news that the school planned to sell its campus, its leaders say the it has regained its financial footing and will now stay put.

Columnists

Derrick Z. Jackson

Obesity, A new kind of smoke

Jeff Jacoby

‘Never again’ is now in North Korea

Brian McGrory

Very friendly skies for insurance execs
Rajon Rondo (13 points, 6-of-17 shooting) ran out of time after stealing the ball in the final seconds, dribbling into a crowd, then failing to get off a shot or a pass as the Celtics lost Game 5.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics will not cough up this series

Joanna Weiss

Women don’t need Obama’s ‘Julia’ avatar

Kevin Cullen

Street’s win is society’s loss

innovation economy

Fledgling start-ups strut their stuff
Protesters demanding the release of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng last week held signs and prayed in front of the White House.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A tragedy or merely tragic?

Adrian Walker

Taking a pass on the future

JOANNA WEISS

Big drama and bigger egos in Edwards’ court

Bob Ryan

Football tests limits of our conscience
Bill Gates presents what was called a “tablet PC” at Microsoft headquarters in 2000.

jeff jacoby

Thanks, Obama, but wealth is not theft

Arts

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Book Review

A 1953 Boston Police booking photo shows James “Whitey” Bulger after an arrest.

‘Most Wanted’ by Thomas Foley

A former Mass. State Police head details his 20-year investigation of Whitey Bulger and how the FBI sought to foil it.

Politics

Political Notebook

By most accounts, a slow, sometimes stumbling recovery is underway in New York and nationally, and Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Obama have made creating jobs their priority.

Obama, Cuomo foresee economic prosperity

President Obama and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo share a rosier view of the current state and national economies.

Business

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In an interview, US Rep. Edward Markey said he would “seriously consider’’ supporting a proposal by Spectra Energy Corp. of Houston to expand the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline that delivers natural gas to New England.

Markey urges more investment in gas pipelines

US Rep. Edward J. Markey called for increased investments in domestic pipelines — which could boost recent efforts to expand a natural gas pipeline that serves New England.

Nation & World

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Long seen as a pragmatist and master political tactician, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has focused on minimizing risk - to Israel, and to his own standing.

Coalition gives Netanyahu broader mandate

Analysts speculated on how Benjamin Netanyahu would use his power after the Israeli leader struck a deal to create the largest coalition government in recent times.

Food & dining

Tabla de Los Santos, in the Hotel St. Francis, has an austere Spanish Colonial decor reminiscent of a monastery.

Heavenly Southwestern cuisine in Santa Fe

It seems almost inevitable that Tabla de Los Santos restaurant in the Hotel St. Francis would be run by chef Estevan Garcia.

“It was only two months ago. How is it possible that it happened again? And will it be chalked up again as an unavoidable catastrophe?”

Pamela Ackers,  a Back Bay resident, on yesterday’s outage

Magazine

The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden

Opinion

“The health care costs of obesity have, by most accounts, surpassed the medical costs of smoking.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

Ideas

“Officials deny they’re in competition, but as Asia’s economies expand, the record suggests that they are using space to demonstrate military power, technological might, and political prestige over their neighbors.”

James Clay Moltz