A divide of donors in Senate contest

The contrast of top backers is sharp, reflecting donors’ view of Senator Brown as an advocate for investment firms and Elizabeth Warren as a former cop on the Wall Street beat.

GOP faith unshaken in supply-side tax policies

The basic ingredients of Mitt Romney’s plan to slash tax rates are steeped in doctrine that has inspired conservatives for decades.

Mario Testino’s photos will be exhibited.

Mario Testino

MFA showcases a sure grasp of glamour

Fashion photographer Mario Testino’s first exhibition in the US, opening at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is aptly titled “In Your Face.”

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/10/15/BostonGlobe.com/HealthScience/Images/kreiter_compounding2_met--90x90.jpg A close look at compounding pharmacies

The widening outbreak of infections linked to a potentially tainted steroid has abruptly thrust a niche area of drug preparation into public view.

Tom Brady (12) and Wes Welker have a lot to think about after the Patriots’ final offensive play in a tough loss in Seattle.

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Seahawks stun Patriots on late TD

The Patriots blew a 13-point fourth-quarter lead as rookie quarterback Russell Wilson powered Seattle back for a 24-23 win.

Seattle’s 12th man, its extremely loud crowd, erupts as receiver Sidney Rice cradles the ball after his 46-yard game-winning TD catch.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots embarrassed by Pete Carroll

Pete was pumped and jacked on the Seattle sideline as the Seahawks stunned the Patriots for easily one of the worst losses of the Belichick-Kraft era.

Assisted death plan brings tug of feelings

Although the “Death with Dignity” ballot question has generated relatively little fanfare, the decision Mass. voters will confront has far-reaching repercussions.

Austrian Felix Baumgartner on Sunday became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, plunging from a balloon capsule more than 24 miles above the New Mexico desert and landing on his feet 4 minutes and 20 seconds later.

Daredevil sky diver leaps into the record books

Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound after successfully completing a 24-mile jump from the stratosphere.

The nanoelectronic scaffold folded in three dimensions, with the circuits visible as loops.

Wired tissue brings promise of smart cells

A team of Harvard and MIT researchers has created the first three-dimensional piece of artificial tissue that’s wired with electronics.

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Already the scene of one of the biggest fires in the history of the country in 1908, the city was engulfed anew on Oct. 14, 1973.

Globe exclusives

Pete Townshend performing a short acoustic set following a talk at Berklee Performance Center on Friday.

Music Review

Townshend talks, plays to delight of Berklee crowd

Daily Dose

Heart attack patients in Mass. have fewer stents
Ben Folds Five (here in New York in September) has reunited for a tour that stopped Saturday at the House of Blues.

Music Review

Ben Folds Five proves a happy, sound reunion
“I feel a little more reflective and searching,” Tig Notaro said. “My comedy is beyond me right now.”

Tig Notaro stands up to a scary diagnosis

Globe Magazine

How grocery shopping got personal
Jessica Wood ties son Emmett’s shoes as her mother, Anne Low, looks on. Wood and her family live with her parents while they try to get out of debt. For now, buying even a used car (below) is a strain.

A young couple caught up in the middle
Elizabeth Warren is known for pushing students without being mean at Harvard Law School.

At Harvard, Elizabeth Warren has warm reputation
Red Sox GM Ben Cherington wants more Cody Rosses and Vicente Padillas and fewer Carl Crawfords.

Sunday baseball notes

A few ideas to shore up the Red Sox
When the Saints scandal broke, Roger Goodell was in the midst of changing the culture of the NFL as far as player safety.

Sunday Football Notes

Roger Goodell’s Saints bounty ruling still right call
The Ontario Hockey League considers itself a primary feeder for the National Hockey League.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Fighting chance to curb fisticuffs in the OHL
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” a collaboration between the American Repertory Theater and commercial producers, went from Cambridge to Broadway.

Are nonprofit theaters too closely tied to commercial producers?
The indie McNally Jackson Books in SoHo has a cafe, spaces for readings and workshops, printers to use for your book, and, yes, books to buy.

travel

48 hours in New York City

Sports

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Tigers 3, Yankees 0

Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez made short work of the Yankees in Game 2, including this soft toss to first base that beat Robinson Cano to the bag.

Tigers put Yankees in 2-0 hole

Playing without an injured Derek Jeter, The Yankees looked helpless at the plate and were beaten, 3-0, by the Tigers in Game 2 of the ALCS.

Metro

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The Dalai Lama waved to the audience Sunday after his talk. Joining him were the Rev. Liz Walker, the moderator, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, one of two Catholic priest panelists.

Dalai Lama imparts wisdom of happiness, compassion

The Dalai Lama discussed interfaith harmony to a crowd of 2,000 in the start of a three-day Boston visit.

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Eliminate the Boston City Council districts

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Khadafy son should be tried by Libya
John F. Kennedy was confronted with the Cuban Missile Crisis 50 years ago today. His handling of the situation rescued his reputation after he was thought to have bungled the Bay of Pigs the previous year.

JAMES CARROLL

Credible presidential power
David Skok, a top go-to investor

Innovation Economy

Start-up Axio, IDEO put heads together

Tech Lab Plus

BluCon offers Bluetooth music for the living room
Seattle’s 12th man, its extremely loud crowd, erupts as receiver Sidney Rice cradles the ball after his 46-yard game-winning TD catch.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots embarrassed by Pete Carroll

Kevin Cullen

Accentuate candidates, eliminate the moderator

JOAN VENNOCHI

State’s in trouble; where’s Patrick?

Nguyen Chi Thien, right, spent his life fighting communism. Eric Hobsbawm, left, spent his life as a communist supporter.

JEFF JACOBY

Communism, in life and death
Michelle Dipp has OvaScience in line to join the Nasdaq stock exchange.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Michelle Dipp, 36, reflects biotech’s next generation
The Patriots will be hearing from the fans at CenturyLink Field — the NFL’s loudest.

Dan Shaughnessy

Seattle will be a racket for the Patriots

JOANNA WEISS

Big Bird ad ruffles some feathers

Business

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A driver tested the Quadski, a one-person watercraft that drives on land, in Oxford, Mich., on Friday.

Amphibious vehicle to be sold in US

The Quadski is being billed by its makers as the first high-speed, commercially available amphibious vehicle.

Politics

Mr. Specter, who began and ended his career as a Democrat, spent 44 years as a Republican.

Arlen Specter, US senator, outspoken centrist; at 82

The irascible senator from Pennsylvania was at the center of many of the Senate’s most divisive legal battles.

Nation & World

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A Pakistani woman shouted slogans during a protest Sunday against the shooting of child activist Malala Yousufzai.

Thousands rally to condemn attack on Pakistani girl

The protest was for 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education and criticizing the militants.

Arts

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Movie Review

Samantha Mathis stars as Dagny Taggart in “Atlas Shrugged Part II.”

The shrugging continues in ‘Atlas Shrugged Part II’

Here’s the thing about filming a great big book of capitalist science-fiction. If you’re enslaved to its every idea, one movie will never do.

Health and wellness

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“There’s a lot of interest in trying to understand how these bacterial products educate the immune system,” said Dr. Ramnik Xavier of Mass. General Hospital.

Researchers rethink role of bacteria in our health

Seven decades after penicillin revolutionized the treatment of infections by killing bacteria, medicine is poised for another revolution.

“The strength of my pictures comes from many years of trying to make you look at people in a way you’ve never looked at them before.”

Fashion photographer Mario Testino 

Magazine

The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal
The cover for the October 7 2012 issue

AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design

Opinion

“Newly elected presidents can be dangerous. Untested and inexperienced, they can act in the name of national security to soothe a personal insecurity.”

James Carroll 

Ideas

“The strategy that underlies American policy, the Carter Doctrine, is now more than 30 years old, and in dire need of an overhaul. …Today, it drives American engagement in a Middle East that looks far different from the region for which it was invented.

Thanassis Cambanis , on the need for a new Middle East policy