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Mass. IT project is latest black eye for Deloitte

From Florida and Pennsylvania to California, big projects managed by the company have come in behind schedule, over budget, and riddled with woes.

J. Christopher Love, professor at MIT’s Koch Institute, with a tabletop device for creating biologic drugs.

Lane Turner/Globe Staff

MIT researchers aim to make drugs on the battlefield

The goal: create a mobile drug lab that can be pieced together to brew small batches of medicines in a day or less.

Adrian Walker

No fix for the fix-it man

Independent contractors who help take care of the JFK Library in Dorchester aren’t getting paid because of the shutdown — and won’t get retroactive pay, either.

John Boehner wants to deal on debt

The House speaker dismissed any immediate path to ending the government shutdown.

Eric Coldwell and his children, Thomas and Chloe, played with their 1-year-old pit bull mix in Weymouth.

Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff

Many reject the fears, welcome pit bulls

Can pit bulls really be good family dogs in the hands of the right owners? The MSPCA’s efforts to convince others appear to be paying off.

Nonprofit teaches amputees the mechanics of running

The Challenged Athletes Foundation worked with 41 amputees, including some wounded in the Marathon bombings, at the Harvard University clinic.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady’s TD pass streak, Patriots’ winning streak over

Death, taxes, and TB12 touchdown passes were all certainties, until the Patriots faced the Bengals’ defense.

Students joust for MIT hacking title

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first HackMIT, a 36-hour event, yielded some ingenious — and wacky — creations.

Opinion

Jennifer Graham

‘Free’ comes with a price

For better or worse, we’re already down the slope to where everything’s free, and the land of the free is necessarily the home of the brave.

Globe exclusives

“Darkwater,” by Tim Rollins and K.O.S., in collaboration with students from the Springfield Renaissance School.

Art Review

Paying tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois

Clay Buchholz will start against the Rays in Game 3 of the ALDS.

ALDS: Red Sox at Rays | 6:07 p.m., TBS

Buchholz ready to make his mark

Pediatric brain cancer survivors (from left) Katie Nickerson, Bernard Manning, and Jack Coates.

Pediatric brain tumor survivors share bond

Bill O'Reilly is a popular, and partisan, host on television and radio.

Broken City

The role of partisan media

ideas

Why you can’t stop checking your phone

Yvonne Abraham

Some joy and trepidation

Critic’s Notebook

How good is Boston’s public art?

Photo gallery

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

John P. Flaherty, running for mayor in Woburn, was accused of threatening a business partner.

Woburn’s mayoral choice: bad or worse?

A container of clams was unloaded from the Sea Watcher 1 in New Bedford.

Georges Bank slowly opens to clamming

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Your Town by the Numbers

New math standards being adopted across the state push reasoning and abstract thinking, says eighth-grade teacher Michelle Calioro. “I think that was really missing from the old standards.”

Magazine | The Education Issue

Aiming higher

Sports

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bengals 13, patriots 6

Brandon Bolden was stopped short of a first down in the third quarter.

Patriots tamed by Bengals in season’s first loss

The Patriots were just 1 for 12 on third down, their worst such performance since November 2008 in Pittsburgh.

Boston mayoral race

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“I was extra pumped up to be in Roslindale, where I grew up,’’ said Councilor John Connolly. “I need Roslindale to get me over the finish line.’’

A sprinting, soggy mayoral spiel

John Connolly and Martin Walsh gripped and grinned their way along the route of the 38th annual Roslindale Day Parade despite the downpour.

Metro

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“Our active-duty military, Reserve, and National Guard members who put their lives on the line to protect us deserve far better from their country than to be prevented from accessing the higher education benefits they were promised,” Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun (above) wrote in a letter to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

NU president urges military to resume tuition aid

The Pentagon’s decision to cut off tuition assistance because of the government shutdown is jeopardizing the academic plans of active-duty troops, Joseph Aoun said.