181 vie for Mass. medical marijuana dispensary licenses

The size of the applicant pool “exceeded most people’s expectations,” said one medical marijuana expert.

Crowded Boston election may leave poll checkers outside

Election officials have tried to identify tight spots long before the Sept. 24 preliminary election.

Man applies for jobless benefits, gets $45,339 bill

Dennis Cutrona’s trouble is the latest to come as the state Department of Unemployment Assistance has moved to a new $46 million computer system.

A wide N.E. divide on health overhaul

The differences highlight how the consumer experience will vary widely under health care reform.

Handheld device lets officials translate on the go

“The box” is supposed to connect authorities to live translators in less than a minute.

When it is ready, the firm rind will not give when you tap it. “Too early or too ripe, and all you hear is a thud,” said Carl Hills. This one was not quite ripe.

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Taste of Summer

Watermelon makes its arrival

The fruit’s arrival wraps up three hot months of sowing and harvesting on Kimball Fruit Farm, Carl Hills’s 200-acre idyll on the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.

Blo Blow Dry Bar stylist Amanda Gurdjian with client Cyd McKenna.

Blow-dry salons come to Boston

Places like Blo, Hairo, and Be Styled don’t cut hair but are being embraced by clients frustrated at seeing their coiffed tresses turn limp shortly after hours with a stylist.

John Lackey pitched one of the best games of the season for the Red Sox, and it wasn’t close to good enough.

Dodgers 2, Red Sox 0

Shutout continues downward slide

The Red Sox have not won consecutive games since Aug. 6-7 and are now percentage points behind Tampa Bay in the AL East.

Dan Shaughnessy

Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford won’t talk about Red Sox

The odds of any athlete talking to me after not having time for Jenny Dell are about one hundred million-to-one.

Opinion

Derrick Z. Jackson

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Dartmouth College far too often seems to exist solely to reveal the depths of racial catatonia among cloistered white students.

Globe exclusives

Rob Consalvo

Rob Consalvo hopes hip-hop track strikes a chord
Jake Novak (right) and other cast members of “Kiss Me, Kate” performing a musical number on the Hatch Shell stage Wednesday.

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Many kisses for ‘Kate’ on the Esplanade

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What’s a ‘Yankee Doodle’?
Jerry Remy has been out of the broadcast booth after his son was charged with murder.

Jerry Remy to miss at least three more Red Sox games
Tanya Cummings-Singleton

Hernandez’s cousin arraigned on contempt of court charge

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The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series returns to Boston this weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Cliff divers prepare for competition at ICA
Hipsters are amassing in Somerville, which claims to be the only city in the country that conducts a happiness survey.

Somerville worries it’s growing too hip

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Who will fight the beauty bias?
Tom Evangelou, the treasurer of St. John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox Church in South Boston spent the day trying to recover church items that were damaged in a five-alarm fire on Tuesday.

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South Boston church fire aftermath

Shirley Leung

A quick way to bypass Southie’s traffic problem?
New CEO of Friendly’s Ice Cream, John Maguire.

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The plan to save Friendly’s

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David Ortiz, taking batting practice before Friday night’s game, was still answering questions over his recent comments.

David Ortiz said comments were misinterpreted

The DH said that his comments on the Ryan Dempster-Alex Rodriguez affair were not meant as criticism of his teammate.

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Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle is under fire after the Globe reported on his spending.

Officials want Westfield State review released

The move comes in the wake of a Globe story about university president Evan Dobelle’s history of charging high expenses to the school.

Columnists

“I did not ask for any money from outside groups,” mayoral candidate John Connolly said.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Memo to Connolly: Take the money
Nate Silver is taking his analytics talent to ESPN.

RENÉE LOTH

Nate Silver — exemplar of openness

EDWARD L. GLAESER

A middle way on mortgage subsidies
Since Alex Rodriguez returned to the lineup Aug. 5 — while appealing his 211-game suspension — the Yankees are 11-6.

Christopher L. Gasper

Alex Rodriguez’s appeal is a sham
Jeremy Geidt performed with Cherry Jones in Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at the ART in 1982. Geidt died earlier this month in Cambridge at age 83.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Jeremy Geidt, the actor who mastered paradox
Jennifer Martel and Jared Remy.

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In Remy case, everybody figured wrong

Beverly Beckham

I was the sun, the kids my planets

JEFF JACOBY

How to fix presidential debates
President Calvin Coolidge fished at the home of a friend in Simsburyg, Conn.

SCOT LEHIGH

New England, presidential vacationland

Adrian Walker

Remy case needs independent review
Harold Brown is 88, and he is still doing real estate deals. He is one of the region's biggest landlords with $1.4 billion in his portfolio.

Shirley Leung

Buy or sell? The guru is stumped
Ryan Dempster drew a 5-game suspension from MLB for hitting Alex Rodriguez with a pitch on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Dempster deserved to be suspended

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A soldier stood watch near Cairo’s Mustafa Mahmoud mosque, one of several closed off on Friday to squelch gatherings.

Egypt’s military heads off protests

A tight lockdown on Cairo all but squelched a planned day of protests by the Muslim Brotherhood and allies, suggesting that the military government had gained a decisive edge.

Politics

State Representative Martin J. Walsh

Conley calls on Walsh to take Boston Pledge

Suffolk DA Dan Conley wants fellow mayoral candidate Marty Walsh to swear off spending by special interest groups and labor unions.

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The increase in mortgage rates has begun to steal some momentum from the market.

Jump in mortgage rates hurts US sales of new homes

Americans cut back sharply in July on their purchases of new homes, a sign that higher mortgage rates may slow the housing recovery.

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“We have a very strong mission to collaborate with the community,” says Meg Fofonoff of Fiddlehead Theatre Company.

Theater company adds a new flavor to Uphams Corner

A “pop-up theater” will be the first taste of what Fiddlehead’s arrival as resident theater company at the Strand Theatre could mean to the neighborhood.

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Brewers Guild Fest returns

More than 80 styles of beer from more than 30 Massachusetts breweries will be available to sample in the Seaport World Trade Center.

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Walter Willett’s food fight

Ideas

“Becoming overly reliant on GPS and letting our natural skills at mental mapping atrophy, new neuroscience research suggests, might actually be bad for our cognitive health.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what GPS does to your brain