Brown, Warren hit hard on policy in third Senate debate
Senator Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren focused on policy issues during their debate at Springfield Symphony Hall on Wednesday.

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Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren sparred Wednesday over health care, taxes, and women’s rights.

Yvonne Abraham

For AFL-CIO, a makeup test

This US Senate election will show if the AFL-CIO has its electoral oomph back. The union is making a mammoth effort on behalf of Elizabeth Warren.

Jeff Jacoby

Warren tries to have it both ways

Elizabeth Warren said she supports defense cuts but also said she would protect Massachusetts bases from closure or budget reductions.

Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan will face off Thursday night.

Biden, Ryan face high stakes in vice presidential debate

Democrats are nervous, Republicans sense a surge, and Vice President Joe Biden and Paul Ryan suddenly have a chance to influence the campaign Thursday.

Pharmacy linked to outbreak broke rules, Patrick says

Governor Patrick accused the Mass. pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has sickened at least 137 people and killed 12, of misleading regulators and operating outside its ­license.

About 1,800 people are expected to greet the Dalai Lama. He visited Medford in 2003.

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Medford going all-out for visit by Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is coming to Magoun Avenue. And — never mind the disruption, the noise, or that there aren’t many Buddhists in these parts — the neighbors are pretty much thrilled.

$366m accord reached to clean up New Bedford Harbor

A long-departed manufacturing company will pay to clean the PCB-laden harbor in the largest cash settlement for a single site in the history of the federal Superfund program.

The standings in the AFC East say there is only one game separating the 3-2 Patriots from the Jets, Bills, and Dolphins, all owners of 2-3 marks. The margin feels larger because of Tom Brady.

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Tom Brady gives Patriots AFC East advantage

It’s not just one game that separates the Patriots from the rest of the AFC East. It’s one player.

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Fitness guru and P90X creator Tony Horton leads a fitness class in the courtyard of the Canadian Embassy.

Tony Horton, the man behind Paul Ryan’s workout program

Joan Vennochi

Is he pro-life, pro-choice, or just pro-Mitt?

Painting your house? Color choices can overwhelm
The author, an ex-girlfriend, chronicles Jack Kerouac (above) in his early years.

Book Review

Exploring the influence of Jack Kerouac’s ethnicity

Tim Johnson

A health care disaster
A steroid formulated by a Framingham firm is linked to a meningitis outbreak.

Doctors split on value of low-back injections
The League of Urban Canners is a new organization devoted to converting oft-neglected fruits from city lots and neighbors’ trees into jellies, jams, and preserves, such as the peaches.

Food

Canners turn neighbors’ fruits into jams and jellies
Ben Affleck (center) plays a CIA operative who leads a rescue mission in Tehran during the 1979-80 Iran hostage crisis.

Thursday Preview | Movie Review

Ben Affleck’s fully in charge in ‘Argo’
Felix Baumgartner’s suit was made by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, which made the suit for the first US spacewalk.

Mass. firm outfits daredevil sky diver
Mini lobster rolls.

Dining out

Room to grow at City Landing
Adam Ant (pictured in London in 2011) performed for almost two hours Monday night at Royale.

Music Review

A recharged Adam Ant storms Royale

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Tony Massarotti

John Farrell has credibility.

Manager is not the priority for Red Sox

In baseball, the players make the manager far more frequently than the other way around, which is why nobody should get too bogged down with John Farrell.

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Boston University freshmen Talia Glickman-­Simon and Danielle Barney, both 18, said they are concerned about the recent armed robberies.

Armed robberies have Boston University on edge

Four recent robberies have put the BU community on edge, alter­ing routines and prompting calls from officials and ­police for students to be vigilant and cautious.

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Tech Lab

Small Samsung camera shoots like a pro
Container ship Edith Maersk crossed the Suez Canal northeast of Cairo Friday.

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The toughest sanctions
The standings in the AFC East say there is only one game separating the 3-2 Patriots from the Jets, Bills, and Dolphins, all owners of 2-3 marks. The margin feels larger because of Tom Brady.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady gives Patriots AFC East advantage

Yvonne Abraham

For AFL-CIO, a makeup test

Joan Vennochi

Is he pro-life, pro-choice, or just pro-Mitt?

Jeff Jacoby

Warren tries to have it both ways
This 1828 Andrew Jackson election poster derided John Q. Adams and his following.

Joanna Weiss

Partisan politics? Take a look at the 19th century
The Patriots’ Stevan Ridley, who rushed for 151 yards in the game, sails over Denver cornerback Champ Bailey as he scores on an 8-yard run in the third quarter.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots’ no-huddle success doomed Broncos

Brian McGrory

Couple still awaiting a happy ending
If you remember the night Tony Conigliaro was struck, you probably remember something else from that time.

Dan Shaughnessy

How sports connects us to key dates

Boston Capital

$100,000 for a start-up, but whose?

Kevin Cullen

Don’t ignore RCC students

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The combination of high prices — averaging $3.80 a gallon this season — and colder weather will drive fuel bills for heating oil consumers to around $2,500, on average, this winter.

Home heating costs expected to be higher

The combination of high prices — averaging $3.80 a gallon this season — and colder weather will drive fuel bills for heating oil consumers to around $2,500, on average, this winter.

Politics

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Glen Doherty killed in Libya last month. His mother wants Mitt Romney to stop talking about an encounter with him.

Romney to drop story about SEAL from Winchester who was killed in Libya

Glen Doherty killed in Libya last month. His mother wants Mitt Romney to stop talking about an encounter with him.

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A Pakistani girl held up a photograph of Malala Yousafzai during a vigil Wednesday in Karachi.

Shooting of Pakistan girl sparks outrage

Schools shut their doors in protest and Pakistanis held vigils for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group.

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Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #118: Fifty randomly placed points all connected by straight lines,’’ redone at the Museum School.

What’s happening in Boston-area galleries

Back in 1971, Sol LeWitt visited the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and invited students to help him construct a wall drawing.

Food & dining

Dana Masterpolo (left) and Michelle da Silva are the founders of Bantam Cider.

New entrepreneurs make hard cider from local apples

One alcohol category is still relatively unchartered: hard cider.

“Throughout the world, I know there are deep religious divides. But you’re not going to find them in Medford.”

Mayor Michael McGlynn,  on the Dalai Lama’s visit

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Opinion

“Amid all the grandstanding about drawing a ‘red line’ that Iran shouldn’t cross in its uranium enrichment program, a different kind of line may have just settled the issue.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Gerken has advanced a vision of governance unusual for someone whose political convictions are firmly liberal: She wants local decision-making bodies to be given more opportunity to rebel against federal policy.”

—Leon Neyfakh on Heather Gerken’s argument for “federalism all the way down”