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Bulger jury starts deliberations

After 35 days of sometimes grotesque stories of ruthless murders, four women and eight men will decide James “Whitey” Bulger’s fate.

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Divers are searching a Bristol, Conn., lake for the gun used in a murder the former Patriot is charged with.

A Yemeni soldier inspected a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US Embassy.

State Dept. urges US citizens to leave Yemen

The State Department also ordered non-essential personnel at the US Embassy in Yemen to leave the country.

Concord-Carlisle faces bullying lawsuit from ex-student

Isabella “Belle” Hankey, now 18, says she was mercilessly bullied for a year and a half while administrators ignored her pleas for help.

Tom Strangfeld at his home in East Harwich.

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Tom Strangfeld at his home in East Harwich.

Strangfeld’s garden is 20 by 30 feet, framed by a white picket fence, and purposely low maintenance.

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Strangfeld’s garden is 20 by 30 feet, framed by a white picket fence, and purposely low maintenance.

“There’s a very limited number of people who get excited about gardening versus cooking and decorating,” said Strangfeld.

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“There’s a very limited number of people who get excited about gardening versus cooking and decorating,” said Strangfeld.

Strangfeld has an encyclopedic knowledge of plants and is a natural teacher.

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Strangfeld has an encyclopedic knowledge of plants and is a natural teacher.

Strangfeld's menacing-looking

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Strangfeld's menacing-looking "killer tool" does everything from slice weeds to clean ledge.

Purple cone flowers at at his home.

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Purple cone flowers at at his home.

The garden has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens magazine, yet it’s unexpectedly unassuming.

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The garden has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens magazine, yet it’s unexpectedly unassuming.

Strangfeld's garden started out as a shade garden but after the flowering cherry tree fell down two years ago, it became very sunny.

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Strangfeld's garden started out as a shade garden but after the flowering cherry tree fell down two years ago, it became very sunny.

Strangfeld plans to completely redo the garden over the next few years for his grandchildren.

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Strangfeld plans to completely redo the garden over the next few years for his grandchildren.

Helping people take back their yards

Eminent landscaper Tom Strangfeld is urging homeowners to avoid the repetitious, the soulless, and the boring in their yards.

The tower will be the first major office building in Seaport Square.

PricewaterhouseCoopers to move to Seaport

The accounting giant has signed a lease that will trigger construction of a 17-story office building to begin later this month.

A Boston Globe driver escaped with no serious injuries after his delivery truck fell 40 feet onto a ramp off Interstate 93.

Drunken driving blamed in I-93 accident

An allegedly drunk driver crashed into a Globe delivery truck, sending the truck over a guardrail and onto an exit ramp nearly 40 feet below, officials said.

Entrepreneur Sarah Cherry Rice described her curriculum-mapping tool for teachers at a recent Waltham event.

Start-ups focus on creating tools for teachers

Massachusetts has become a hub for education technology start-ups, which look to improve education from outside the classroom.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

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If politicians really cared about helping retailers and shoppers, they would cut the sales tax rate across the board.

Globe exclusives

Esperanza Spalding performing Sunday night at Tanglewood. She played both electric and acoutic basses.

Music Review

Spalding lights up Tanglewood
Alex Rodriguez returned to the field Monday even after his suspension was announced.

On Baseball

Many MLB players happy with PED suspensions
Prospective Boston Globe owner John W. Henry (left) talked with graphic designer David Butler on Monday during a newsroom tour.

In Globe visit, Henry plays role of observer
Olympia and Apollo Dukakis in the Shakespeare & Company production of “Mother Courage and Her Children.’’

Stage Review

Measuring the toll of war in ‘Mother Courage’
Maria Vasquez was able to keep her home in Revere after a Suffolk Superior Court ruled that the mortgage holder was misidentified in foreclosure proceedings.

Banks accused of rules violation

Album Review | FOLK/COUNTRY

Tension, grace on ‘The Civil Wars’
Runners compete in the 2012 Boston Marathon.

Health

How much exercise is too much?
John Henry, center, whose bid for the Globe was accepted by the Times Co., spent Sunday evening watching the Boston Red Sox play Arizona from the EMC Level at Fenway Park.

3 groups say they topped Henry’s bid
Geralda Figueroa, a Boston health inspector, told Kim Crocker and Robert MacClean how to avoid violations.

Food truck popularity outrunning hygiene
Archeologists Rosemary Pinales and Scott McGaughey worked at a site undisturbed by centuries of nearby development.

North End dig hits pay dirt
Worcester Polytechnic Institute students work on an Atlas robot, which was delivered as part of a Pentagon project.

Vying to give brawny robot a brain
Stephanie Scarcella, as Cenerentola, and Zac Engle, as Prince Ramiro, take center stage in Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” at the Strand Theatre.

Opera Review

BOC’s ‘Cinderella’ triumphs at Strand

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Before he joined the Yankees, Alex Rodriguez came close to wearing a Red Sox uniform in late 2003.

Alex Rodriguez was close to being Red Sox’ problem

Had the MLBPA not voided a trade agreement in 2003, the Rodriguez PED drama might have played out at Fenway Park.

Metro

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Tayshia Holmes-Maxwell worked at the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program office in Cambridge on Monday.

Still tough for Mass. teens to find summer jobs

Teenage employment has stalled this summer, despite hopes that an improving economy would mean more opportunities.

Columnists

A picture taken from inside a car shows Iranians waiting at a bus station in downtown Tehran in June.

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Tehran calculations
Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

The theater of Whitey
Pope Francis waved from his popemobile on the Copacabana beachfront in Brazil.

JAMES CARROLL

The pope’s ‘culture of solidarity’

JOHN E. SUNUNU

‘Grand bargain’ is a grand head fake
Shane Victorino held a little impromptu meet-and-greet with some of the 37,611 Fenway Faithful in Sunday’s game.

Christopher L. Gasper

These Red Sox are Dirt Dogs again
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?

Christopher L. Gasper

Drawing up a safer way to practice

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces

Nation & World

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Former US President George W. Bush, here in July, underwent heart surgery after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery.

George W. Bush has heart surgery

Former President George W. Bush has a successful heart procedure after doctors discovered a blocked artery.

Politics

President Obama will also renew his calls for sweeping mortgage refinancing legislation when he travels to Phoenix on Tuesday.

President Obama to focus on housing market

President Obama will urge Congress this week to back bipartisan efforts to shutter mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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The Washington Post, like most newspapers, has been losing readers and advertisers to the Internet while watching its value plummet.

Washington Post to be sold to founder of Amazon

Jeff Bezos stunned the media industry by announcing plans to acquire another pillar of mainstream media: The Washington Post.

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Lil Wayne (pictured performing in New Jersey in June) teamed with T.I. Sunday night at the Comcast Center.

T.I., Lil Wayne dig into name-making hits

Both rappers staked a claim to their illustrious pasts and looked ahead to the future in their concert at the Comcast Center.

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Magazine

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The lake house
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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