John Henry adding Globe to his Boston constellation

The Red Sox owner had two advantages in his bid for The Boston Globe: a local profile and a cash offer.

Globe readers, Red Sox fans weigh in on Henry as owner

The prospect of Red Sox principal owner John Henry buying The Boston Globe has sparked a mix of optimism and concern.

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Henry has earned a reputation as a smart businessman willing to make bold, risky bets — and winning many of them.

Pier 4 developers have proposed using special flood barriers to protect new buildings.

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Rising water levels threaten Boston’s waterfront

From downtown to East Boston to Dorchester, rising sea levels are posing an increasingly urgent threat to developers’ plans.

Geralda Figueroa, a Boston health inspector, told Kim Crocker and Robert MacClean how to avoid violations.

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Food truck popularity outrunning hygiene

Forty-one percent of trucks in Boston have been cited for food safety violations that put their customers at risk of food poisoning, according to a review.

General Joseph F. Dunford spoke to a group of Romanian soldiers in Kabul as they prepared to return home.

Mass. native guides war in Afghanistan to a close

General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., a son of a retired Boston police officer, is leading the wind down of our mission.

(From left to right) Joel Joseph, Rosemary Agbede, and Andre Kurs.

Immigrants a vital part of the Mass. economy

Immigrants are expected to play even larger roles in coming years as the aging, native-born population leaves the labor force.

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Boston Ballet Company and the school are partners in a novel initiative that allows dancers to earn a college degree while they dance.

Opinion

opinion | Jon Garelick

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The Os Gemeos mural deserves to become a permanent public installation as it shows Boston’s inclusiveness and capacity for joy.

Globe exclusives

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman got some offense when he acquired Alfonso Soriano from the Cubs.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Yankees still alive for playoffs
In his game-review video series “Zero Punctuation,” Benjamin “Yahtzee” Croshaw (below) offers observations delivered as a series of still shots of rudimentary figures.

Game On

A biting wit, and a mission to reform
Kenbrell Thompkins has speed and has looked great in Patriots camp.

Sunday Football Notes

Some Patriots are on the spot
John Chereski (right) worked with Leland Alexander to estimate costs for a synagogue renovation.

On the Job

Working as a ‘human calculator’
Margaret Hamilton in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939).

history repeating

Still green, still a witch

Your Home

34 home maintenance myths

How college classes encourage cheating
“Odysseo” will feature a full-size carousel that descends from the ceiling like something out of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

THEATER

Horses star in this show
The Canobie Corkscrew (opened in 1987) is a steel sit-down roller coaster that can reach 45 miles an hour.

Smackdown!

Lake Compounce vs. Canobie Lake Park
Matt Damon.

Movies

Next stop Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’

Give American currency a makeover!
Steve Costner of the State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which is the largest single source of money for mine removal operations around the world.

Homefront impasse has distant victims

Sports

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Jake Peavy was pumped for his Red Sox debut, pitching into the eighth inning and allowing only two runs.

Jake Peavy stifles in his Red Sox debut

Buoyed by Peavy’s seven-plus innings of four-hit pitching, the Red Sox beat the Diamondbacks, 5-2, at Fenway.

Metro

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A rider supporting stem cell research pulled in for a lunch break on Saturday during the 34th annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge.

For PMC riders, fight is personal

The two-day Pan-Massachusetts Challenge raises money for cancer research and has quickly become the largest athletic fund-raiser in the country.

Columnists

Christopher L. Gasper

Drawing up a safer way to practice
Danny Ainge entrusted the Celtics’ head coaching job to 36-year-old Brad Stevens.

Bob Ryan

Stevens has a tough road ahead in NBA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor’s race looms over Suffolk casino
Dockyard, a small Boston-based company, could be facing a significant cost increase, says principal Brian Cardarella.

Innovation Economy

Tech firms learning a costly lesson
Lucy loves to share online songs and videos with her grandmother.

Beverly Beckham

Would a ‘cure’ change the love?

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak would be open to retaining Meredith Weenick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Next mayor needs no-nonsense CFO

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart
Bill Parcells helped change the trajectory of the Patriots franchise during his four-year stint as head coach in the 1990s.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells reflects on his Patriots years

Kevin Cullen

Time for an explanation
Argentina’s Mauricio Munoz took a blow during a featherweight title match in Macau last week.

CARLO ROTELLA

All’s unfair in boxing and politics

Nation & World

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Hasan Rouhani, the new president of Iran, spoke about international sanctions during his installation ceremony in Tehran on Saturday. He received the backing of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (third from right).

Iran’s new president to seek sanctions’ end

Hasan Rouhani vowed to work with the outside world to lift the “oppressive sanctions” crippling Iran’s economy.

Politics

About 75,000 Lincoln papers in the National Archives have still not been examined under the program.

Funds dwindle for Lincoln papers project

About 75,000 Lincoln papers in the National Archives have still not been examined under the program.

Business

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Product Reviews

How to keep your smartphone safe

Most smartphone users haven’t suffered serious losses because of their phone, but there are threats that merit concern.

Arts

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Art Review

Sukuma dance figures (52, 60, and 56 inches tall) made of wood, metal, and pigments.

An amazing world of art from Tanzania

“Shangaa: Art of Tanzania” at the Portland Museum of Art is a thought-provoking show made up of sculptural objects.

Travel

Zilker Botanical Garden in downtown Austin.

Taking the kids to Texas

Desperate for a change of scene, warm weather, and good food, a family of four explores Texas.

Books

Book review

‘Brewster’ by Mark Slouka

The terrific novel focuses on teenagers growing up during the Woodstock era in the titular small town.

Globe Insiders

Globe e-book

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I was the sun, the kids were my planets, and other reflections from the Globe columnist.

Boston Globe ePaper

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Read the ePaper edition

The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Magazine

The cover for the August 4 2013 issue

The lake house
The cover for the July 28 2013 issue

Walter Willett’s food fight
The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield
The cover for the July 14 2013 issue

Kitchen overhaul

Ideas

“There hasn’t been a meaningful rethinking of who should appear on our paper money since 1928, when early versions of the bills we still use today entered circulation.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on American currency