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Beth Israel, Lahey Clinic in talks on potential alliance

The alliance would rival Partners HealthCare in scale and reach.

US missile shield to counter North Korea threats

The Pentagon is deploying the ballistic missile defense system to Guam.

A large gun rights rally was held on Boston Common Wednesday afternoon.

Gun-rights rally draws 1,000 to Boston Common

Speakers argued that gun control will subvert the US Constitution and open the door to a police state.

Alison Demadis worked in the food lab at the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center last June. About 1,500 workers there will be taking a 20 percent pay cut.

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Federal sequester cuts felt around Mass.

Communities outside Boston are about to feel the pain as a result of $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts that went into effect last month.

JOANNA WEISS

Jay Leno is my hero

He’s weathered the indignities of Hollywood, he’s survived some serious scrapes, and now he’s exiting with (mostly good-natured) humor and grace.

Science

Experiment hints at dark matter

The first results of a two-decade experiment led by an MIT scientist provided preliminary evidence of new phenomena that could be created by dark matter.

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Boston College sophomores Erika Bjerklie, left, and Jessika Parry are on the board of BC Students for Sexual Health.

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The BC condom clash

Edward Tutunjian's taxi garage on Kilmarnock Street in Boston.

Readers respond to the Globe’s ‘Driven to the Edge’ series

Saltenas, Bolivian pastries resembling an empanada and filled with chicken or beef, and peas, eggs, potatoes, olives, and gravy.

Cheap Eats

Bolivian mixes with Mexican at Que Padre

Mona Aboukhalil and her husband, Mohamed, a taxi driver, were among those pushing for a hackney unit overhaul

Drivers want hackney unit replaced

Photo gallery

Boston goes blue for autism awareness

Interactive map

Day in the life of a cabbie

Adrian Walker

Promise for Boston’s future

Teacher Kara Lysy worked with her K2 class at Dorchester’s Lee Academy, which will be moving into its own building next year. Boston schools have seen an enrollment rise in the lower grades.

Nine Boston schools losing space

On hockey

Jaromir Jagr brings Cup dreams to Bruins

“But if it wasn’t already clear to me, and it was, that failure drove home the fact that it is a deadly serious sport. It isn’t a game in any way,” said Vanessa O’Brien, who trains by dragging a tractor tire on Revere Beach to build endurance and lung capacity.

Boston woman tackling peaks at a record pace

David Tennant stars as Jean-Francois Mercier, a French military attaché based at the French Embassy in Warsaw.

Television Review

‘Spies of Warsaw’ lacking thrills

Dishes to celebrate the new season

Spotlight Report: Driven to the Edge

Spotlight Report

A nine-month Globe investigation of Boston’s $1 billion taxicab industry found widespread corruption.

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On Baseball

Jon Lester picked up the win in his Opening Day start at New York.

Jon Lester could be poised for major payday

Lester, 29, faces a big year. If he rebounds into top-of-the-rotation form, a look around MLB suggests the Red Sox will have to pay him a very big contract.