Falmouth wall divides land, sea, neighbors

Residents say beach access has been eroded by a few wealthy homeowners trying to protect waterfront properties with new walls.

Annie Dookhan, 34, was charged with obstruction of justice and falsifying her academic record in the crime lab case.

How a chemist circumvented her lab’s safeguards

Close supervision is key in a lab, specialists say, and state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan’s appeared to lack it.

Poll shows Elizabeth Warren taking slim lead

Warren appears to be inching ahead of Senator Brown in the highly competitive race for Senate, according to a new Globe poll.

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US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

The latest US military death happened Saturday when an Afghan military member killed an American service member and a NATO civilian contractor and at least two Afghans.

Tom Brady and the Patriots are looking to rebound with their record at 1-2 entering Week 4.

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Patriots’ keys to Week 4 win vs. Bills

Jim McBride examines the scouting report and offers a prediction as New England looks to rebound and get back to .500.

Neither Ben Cherington nor Bobby Valentine had solutions to what befell the Sox this year.

Pitching, injuries led to demise of the Red Sox

The 2012 Red Sox began the season with very high expectations but plunged nearly to the bottom of the American League in six months.

The hour-long procession opening the Second Vatican Council moves into St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Oct. 11, 1962. In all, about 10,000 walked in the procession.

opinion | James Carroll

The Catholic Church’s lost revolution

Fifty years ago at Vatican II, a profound transformation of Catholicism began — only to be cut short.

ideas

Big data: Mind the gaps

These days, we can measure a lot about the world – but only the fraction we know about.

Globe magazine

New Kids on the Block: Their early Boston days

From the new authorized biography come these scenes from the boy band’s start. It was a time of break dancing, goofing off, and dreaming big.

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Since the first Chinese immigrants began arriving in the 1880’s, the neighborhood has been one of the city’s most vibrant.

Globe exclusives

Mitt Romney has struggled to confront the self-inflicted wound from a video from a fund-raiser video in which he disparaged 47 percent of the electorate.

NEWS ANALYSIS

Romney must change dynamics of race drastically to win
Terrel Sylvestre of Waltham led the opening ceremony of a meeting at the Paul Robeson Institute.

Institute forges life lessons for at-risk young men
Dan Duquette deserves credit for adding to the Orioles roster, for constantly having to tweak the roster amid injuries.

Sunday Baseball Notes

In American League front offices, two stand out
Army veteran Thomas Jude Carroll, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident, on joining this VetEx climb up Mount Washington: “I hope someone out there sees me and it hits them that they can do it, too.”

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On Mount Washington, a peak experience

ideas

Big data: Mind the gaps
Mount Greylock has trails for both hikers and amblers.

Budget Friendly

The Berkshires on a budget
Ives’s father’s cornet.

Third ear

The Connecticut home of Charles Ives is being sold off

movies

Why some directors remake their original films
In 1988, Peter Staley finishes hanging a banner over the main entrance to the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Rockville, Md.

movies

‘How to Survive a Plague’ a triumph of activism
A Muslim man in Calcutta held up a placard during a protest against a film considered to be blasphemous.

ideas

How blasphemy divides the Arab world from the West
The Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band (featuring trombone players, from left, Jesse Metzler, Kate Riegle-Van West, and Kevin Leppmann) came up with the idea for the HONK! Festival.

music

HONK! Festival makes noise that matters

book review

‘Gods Like Us’ by Ty Burr

Sports

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There are only three Celtics players left who embarked on the 2007 preseason trip to Rome and London.

Celtics eager to bond on trip to Europe

The Celtics will spend six days in Istanbul and three in Milan, playing an exhibition game in each city and conducting valuable two-a-day practices.

Metro

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James Lynch next to a microfilm reader that is showing the 1708 freetown land transfer.

Conn. researcher can swing fates of tribes

James Lynch debunks historical claims of Indians, sometimes testifying in disputes over casino proposals.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

New Orleans fights for its news

Kevin Cullen

Brown supporters’ fun not funny to Native American
Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate was ruled to have pulled in a game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Russell Wilson against the Packers this week.

Bob Ryan

Entertainment is fun, but it’s no contest

Yvonne Abraham

Scott Brown doesn’t have much to offer

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots and Red Sox in familiar positions

Joan Vennochi

Limousine liberal and a pickup truck
Burst’s Tracey Deforge and Bryant McBride and their team have developed an app that allows photos and video to be shared with selected group of friends or family.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Growing app market sparks fierce competition
IMPACT instructors work with Lennie Kaplan of Randolph (left).

Beverly Beckham

Self-defense making a big IMPACT

Adrian walker

Boston janitors and their bosses are at loggerheads — again
Eric Harris, left, and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are seen in an image from a security camera in the cafeteria at Columbine High School during their shooting rampage.

derrick z. jackson

Denver debate needs question on guns

Jeff Jacoby

Working for BU’s ‘silver unicorn’

Boston Capital

Elizabeth Warren is no friend of big business

Business

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JANUS AUTOMATED WORKSTATION: PerkinElmer, Waltham. Used to automate sample preparation and other tasks involved in lab work such as drug research, forensics, and diagnostics.

Mass. medical device companies ready to market wares

As medical technology leaders gather in Boston, state officials and local companies are making a case for Massachusetts.

Politics

Political Notebook

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry at a hearing on Sept. 19.

Kerry calls for facts, not politics, in Libya inquiry

Senator John Kerry is calling on his colleagues to dial down the political mudslinging over the recent terrorist attacks in Libya.

Nation & World

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Iraqis stand at the scene of a car bomb attack in the town of Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad.

Bombs rock Iraq, killing 26 in coordinated attacks

Bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods, security forces, and other targets across Iraq in the latest instance of violence that could undermine confidence in the government.

Arts

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Bob Newhart (above, speaking in Boston in 2007) has been making comedy for 52 years.

At 83, Bob Newhart still loves the laughter

It’s easy to picture Bob Newhart as a mild-mannered caricature in a Cosby sweater, an enduring image of the curmudgeon and the everyman he has played.

Books

book review

‘The Signal and the Noise’ by Nate Silver

We don’t know whether Nate Silver’s forecast of the 2012 election will be as accurate as it was in 2008. But he’s got a long track record of high-quality prediction.

Travel

Steve Jobs lived in this relatively unpretentious Palo Alto, Calif., house from 1992 until his death last year. The double lot accommodated his wife, Laurene’s, garden.

Steve Jobs still stored in Silicon Valley’s memories

In Silicon Valley, tourists are becoming a frequent presence at the homes and public spots that played a backdrop to Steve Jobs’s epic life. Here are six of the biggest draws.

“That’s what I try to give these boys and young men — guidance based on the types of lives that a great many ‘normal’ black men live.”

Courtneay Small,  co-director of the Robeson Institute

Magazine

The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

On Mount Washington, a peak experience
The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires

Opinion

“It’s complicated and getting more so for [Elizabeth] Warren, as the senator in the pickup truck tries to slam the door shut on the liberal in the limousine.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“We know a lot about the things that are closer to our size, our altitude, our spot in the universe — and less about things that are hard to reach, hard to dig up, and hard to quantify.”

Samuel Arbesman  on what big data is missing