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Menino seeks $15m to handle convicts from lab scandal

Mayor Thomas M. Menino today asked Governor Patrick for the funds to help handle the possible influx of convicted drug dealers released in the state drug lab scandal.

Mattapan shooting victim Marcus Hurd testified at the quadruple murder trial in March.

Judge to allow Mattapan victim’s testimony at retrial

Marcus Hurd, the man wounded in the 2010 quadruple slaying, testified at the first trial that he couldn’t identify the shooters, but has since changed his testimony.

Other drugs from Mass. firm may have led to illnesses

Officials warned that any injectable drugs -- not just steroid injections -- made by a Framingham facility at the center of a meningitis outbreak are of “significant concern.”

“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.

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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.

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The figure puts Mitt Romney’s fund-raising effort slightly behind President Obama’s $181 million haul for the month.

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Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million - much more than Scott Brown’s $7.45 million - in the most recent quarter.

Opinion | JAMES CARROLL

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For newly elected US presidents, the temptation to talk tough has deadly consequences.

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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.

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Joanne Lee at work at Johnson Compounding.

A close look at compounding pharmacies

Comics

The funny pages
Mario Testino’s photos will be exhibited.

MFA showcases a sure grasp of glamour
Ronald Reagan once said that after he made four movies in a year, he would “go to the country,’’ because tax rates for additional income were confiscatory and discouraged more effort.

GOP faith unshaken in supply-side tax policies
“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
The Dalai Lama adjusted his visor to shade the strong light on stage before his talk, “Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, and Wellbeing” at the Marriott Copley in Boston.

Dalai Lama’s visit exudes happiness
The nanoelectronic scaffold folded in three dimensions, with the circuits visible as loops.

Wired tissue brings promise of smart cells
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

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

Sports

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New York Yankees bench coach Tony Pena (center) will interview to be the next Red Sox manager.

Red Sox to interview Pena, Hale in manager search

The team is interviewing Yankees bench coach Tony Pena Monday, and Orioles third base coach DeMarlo Hale will reportedly be interviewed later this week.

Metro

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Seth Mazzaglia (center) was arraigned by video from a jail in Dover, N.H., on Monday.

N.H. man held without bail in slaying of student

The 29-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder for “strangling and/or suffocating” Elizabeth Marriott, 19, of Westborough.

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.

Opinion | 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
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll patted quarterback Russell Wilson on the head before the game against the Patriots.

SEAHAWKS 24, PATRIOTS 23 | 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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Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (left) and Dan Hesse, chief executive of Sprint Nextel Corp., shook hands during a joint press conference in Tokyo on Monday.

Sprint sells 70 percent of company to Japanese firm

Japan’s Softbank has agreed to buy $20.1 billion in Sprint stock, giving the struggling US cellphone company an infusion of cash and confidence.

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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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.

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