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Stocks rise sharply after jobs report

The US unemployment rate fell to 7 percent in November, a five-year low.

A policeman guarded the Ukrainian Parliament as supporters of President Viktor Yanukovych stood in the background.

Government supporters in Ukraine use gay rights as tactic

Progovernment demonstrators said homosexuality would accompany a greater role for the European Union in Ukrainian affairs.

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Fifteen-year-old Abigail Hernandez, who disappeared nearly two months ago, wrote her mother a letter, police said.

To help wind energy, US to allow eagle deaths

A golden eagle flew over a wind turbine in Wyoming in April.

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The Obama administration said today it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without fear of prosecution for up to 30 years.

DOOMED (left): The The demolition of Chicago’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, designed by Bertrand Goldberg, has been called Modernism’s “Penn Station moment.” PRESERVED (right): The Portland Building in Portland, Ore., is on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by Michael Graves, it’s been called one of “the world’s ugliest.”

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Can buildings be too young to save?

The struggle to predict — and preserve — the architectural landmarks of tomorrow.

The Boston Fire Department had to use their tower unit truck to evacuate a worker, who had become ill, from the roof an an apartment building on Bishop Joe Smith Way on Dec. 5.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week

The Boston Fire Department helped evacuate an ill worker from the roof of an apartment building, and more of the week’s best images.

People danced and sang as they take part in an interfaith service for the late former President Nelson Mandela inCape Town.

South Africans celebrate Mandela’s legacy

People erupted in song, dance, and tears Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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The acid test of economic doctrine isn’t its theoretical appeal but rather how well it works in the real world.

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Students attending a class in “At Berkeley,” a four-hour documentary by Frederick Wiseman.

‘At Berkeley’ raises class consciousness

Frederick Wiseman’s documentary is a four-hour study of a critical juncture in the University of California, Berkeley’s existence, and in American higher education.