Breaching of dam, restoring salmon’s passage unite many
Joseph Dana watched from a traditional handmade birch canoe on the Penobscot as the Veazie Dam was breached.

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The breach of the Veazie Dam, the culmination of a $62 million public-private partnership, is a critical step toward revitalizing Maine’s Penobscot River.

Ben Cooper (left) of Sensible Baby, a start-up with a product that monitors the health of infants, met with Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey Monday.

Edward Markey basks in Elizabeth Warren’s spotlight

When it comes to the first-year senators from Mass., Markey is the junior partner in both chronology and celebrity.

Medicare considers using stars to rate hospitals

The proposed rating system is intended to help patients compare care as the agency worries that the data it already offers are difficult to understand.

Alex Gutkowski (left) and Sam Mayer kept an eye on the energy use of thousands of customers from Enernoc’s Boston location last week.

Conservation program eases power grid strain

The program, known as “demand response,” pays large commercial users to cut their electricity use when consumption begins to approach the grid’s capacity.

Kevin Cullen

It’s always somebody else’s fault at Bulger trial

None of the degenerates in the Whitey Bulger trial wants to accept responsibility for what he did.

From childhood to Butler (right) and now Boston, Brad Stevens has always loved the game.

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Midwestern values carry Celtics coach Brad Stevens

The 36-year-old believes lessons from his time in Zionsville, Indiana, at DePauw and at Butler will help him in his new job.

Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons will miss Saturday night’s concert at Tanglewood.

Concussion keeps BSO’s Andris Nelsons away

Advised not to fly, the young Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor will miss Saturday night’s concert at Tanglewood.

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The lane closures and new traffic pattern mark the beginning of a $255 million project to rehabilitate the bridge.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

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The difference between a thriving city and one in collapse is public safety.

Globe exclusives

Kadahj Bennett as young rapper Hank in Company One’s “How We Got On.’’

Stage review

Hip-hop dreams burst to life in ‘How We Got On’
In a family photo of the Walshes before they discovered the siblings shared a potentially fatal gene, are (from left) Steve Walsh, his sister Beth Lambert, brother Mike, sister Kathy Flores, brother Dave, and their mother, Mary Walsh.

G Cover

Cutting out a health risk

Album Review | r&b

Songs tell the story in Redding set
The cast of the Martha’s Vineyard-based reality show includes (from left) Katie Tardif, Jackie Lyons, and Gabby Lapointe.

Television Review

Mannequins on beach in ‘The Vineyard’
Open heart surgery in 1955.

Health

Hypothermia making a comeback
Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons will miss Saturday night’s concert at Tanglewood.

Concussion keeps BSO’s Nelsons away
Mr. Farina, a popular character actor, played Detective Joe Fontana on ‘‘Law & Order’’ during the 2004-06 seasons.

Actor Dennis Farina, who starred on ‘Law & Order,’ dies
Tasha Garland, 2, of West Falmouth, hunts for shells in the tide at Chapoquoit Beach.

Travel

Cape’s west coast less traveled
Hunter Perry gets picked up near his office on Harrison Avenue by Lyft, whose vehicles sport a pink mustache.

Trips for post-taxi population
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, far right, at a groundbreaking in Dorchester in 2011. Also pictured are University of Massachusetts President Jack Wilson, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Paul G. Kirk, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

Builders hurry to win city approval

In Practice

Intuition told her patient had Lyme
Jana Coonan, shown with her younger brother, Brian, was one of four people who disappeared in a boating accident off Plymouth over Memorial Day weekend in 1976. Her family searched for her for years. Some of her remains were recently identified, after they were mailed to the Globe last fall.

From the Sunday Globe

Package brings end to a long mystery

Sports

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Rays 3, Red Sox 0

Jose Iglesias and the Red Sox’ offense were kept quiet by Rays pitcher Matt Moore.

Rays’ Matt Moore 2-hits Red Sox

The Rays now sit only a half-game behind the Red Sox in the AL East with three games left in the series.

Metro

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States urged to look into Ibragim Todashev’s death

The ACLU is calling on officials in Mass. and Florida to investigate a FBI agent’s fatal shooting of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s friend.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

The real marriage revolution

EDWARD L. GLAESER

In Detroit, bad policies bear bitter fruit

Kevin Cullen

It’s somebody else’s fault

Adrian Walker

Give festival another go
Red Sox pitcher John Lackey got a hand from David Ortiz after getting pulled from the game in the seventh.

Christopher L. Gasper

Lackey is pitching like an ace

Yvonne Abraham

Good people, good fortune
Amar Bose, who founded Bose Corp. in 1964, died earlier this month. He used some profits to fund research into new areas, like auto suspension.

Innovation Economy

Dr. Bose’s greatest innovation may be his company
Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee.

alex beam

Lots of noise from Warren but little delivery

Beverly Beckham

Remembering my mentor: Bob Cormier
Nelson Mandela walked down Boylston Street on a 1990 visit to Boston.

JEFF JACOBY

Mandela’s undiminished legacy

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This exchange really captured Whitey’s attention

LAWRENCE HARMON

Recovering addicts stand behind Walsh

Nation & World

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Buckingham Palace used a worldwide tweet and a traditional town crier Monday to announce the birth of a son to Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton.

Britian rejoices over arrival of a new royal heir

Buckingham Palace on Monday announced the birth of a boy to Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton.

Politics

If Obama’s new focus on the economy sounds familiar, that is because he has done it several times since the first year of his presidency.

Obama attempts to shift focus back to economy

The president intends to deliver a series of economic speeches over the next several weeks ahead of key budget deadlines.

Business

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Josh Scott helped a computer user who did not want to be identified during a Cryptoparty on Web security in Dallas.

Internet users shift habits amid US spying

Some are changing their online habits as they reconsider some basic questions about today’s interconnected world.

Arts

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Concert Review

Vladimir Jurowski leading the BSO in his Tanglewood debut Friday.

Wagner, Brahms anchor BSO’s weekend at Tanglewood

Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski made his Tanglewood debut Friday.

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Ideas

“Using techniques from the past, ideas from hot-weather countries, and new findings from building design experts, we can see a surprising portrait emerge of what life might look like if we decided we could no longer afford our addiction to air conditioning.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on life without A/C