Defense cut damage viewed as overblown

Analysts across the political spectrum say the US defense budget can and should be cut significantly — and that doing so will not harm national security.

Brody Dorion with his mother, Vanessa, at a Head Start in Boston. “It’s not day care,” Vanessa says. “The kids are in there learning.”

Cost of sequestration hits home in Boston

The Head Start program, which serves 2,500 children, is bracing for cuts that could leave 250 children and perhaps a center out in the cold.

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The state gambling commission has a number of decisions to make over the next 12 months, but perhaps none as fundamental as this: Rural or urban?

Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put an end to telecommuting at her company.

JOANNA WEISS

Marissa Mayer is insulting our intelligence

Women need the tools, and respect, to make career choices for themselves. Corporate top-achievers, like the Yahoo CEO, are always the last to understand this.

Boston humming as appeal of life in city booms

The century’s first decade has brought a historic surge of newcomers to Boston. They carry fresh expectations — and pose real challenges.

Susan Mai

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Susan Mai viewed Boston from the roof at her small Beacon Hill apartment. Her devotion to city living is part of a trend.

Almost everywhere you look, it seems, is a new building site in Boston. People are moving back into the city.

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Almost everywhere you look, it seems, is a new building site in Boston. People are moving back into the city.

More than 5,300 homes are under construction in Boston.

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More than 5,300 homes are under construction in Boston.

The Factory 63

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The Factory 63, a newly renovated building in South Boston, includes apartments as small as 375 square feet.

Housing is going up quickly to meet demand — in 2010 alone, Boston’s population grew by 7,500 people and is now above 625,000.

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Housing is going up quickly to meet demand — in 2010 alone, Boston’s population grew by 7,500 people and is now above 625,000.

The average rent in Boston is $1,700, but there are many at $4,000 or more.

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The average rent in Boston is $1,700, but there are many at $4,000 or more.

Crews worked on the upper floors of The Kensington, a new apartment tower going up along Washington Street.

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Crews worked on the upper floors of The Kensington, a new apartment tower going up along Washington Street.

Thomas Murphy addressed Harvard students

Improving your financial literacy skills

With even Harvard students lacking basic knowledge, the search is on for the best way to teach money skills.

Extreme weather tourists explored at Mount Washington Observatory.

Mt. Washington’s wintry ferocity draws weather tourists

The famed Mount Washington Observatory offers extreme weather tourists the opportunity to experience deadly weather in relaxing comfort.

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Joi Gresham, literary executor for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose portrait hangs over Gresham’s Cambridge mantel.

‘A Raisin in the Sun’ inspires spinoffs and debate
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Sunday Football Notes

Unchartered waters ahead in NFL free agency
Adie Sprague says she always pictured herself as a baker, creating sculptures out of batter at art school.

On the job

Sculpting art out of flour and frosting
Caroline “Calle” Cronk, who has a rare brain tumor, practices her dance moves with her friends during a class in Scituate.

Hope for Caroline

Family aids work to discover a cure
Biologist Bryan Windmiller checked for Blanding’s turtles fitted with radio transmitters at the Great Meadows refuge, in a conservation effort that includes raising hatchlings in captivity; the turtle below was “head-started” by Curtis Middle School students in Sudbury.

Conservation effort keeps watch over turtles
At the end of a road through peat bogs, the circa 1856 Miscou Island Lighthouse looks over the Bay of Chaleur and beyond to Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula.

Travel

Remotely beautiful, with Acadian accents
The Land of Oz in the film

Movies

L. Frank Baum’s Oz remains a wonderful destination
Women hugged Friday outside court, where two men were ordered held without bail on murder charges.

Roxbury slaying a deadly reminder
Richard Ward, the youth director of the Boston Ski Party, a club that promotes skiing in black communities. “We are part of the fabric here now,” says Ward of African-Americans on the slopes.

Boston Ski Party promotes sport in black communities
Emily Glass (left) and her husband Venkat Korvi would like to sell their condo and move into a bigger house but they can't find anything suitable. Home inventories are at an eight-year low and everyone is asking: Where are the sellers?

Local housing market desperately seeking sellers
Nazalone is credited with reversing more than 1,800 opiate overdoses in Massachusetts.

A simple nasal spray gives parents the power to reverse a child’s overdose

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Brad Marchand (left) and Patrice Bergeron

Bruins come charging back, beat the Lightning

Thanks to a Brad Marchand goal late in the third, the Bruins wiped out a two-goal deficit to win their sixth straight game.

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Jon Favreau, shown with President Obama in April 2009, was one of the youngest head speechwriters in presidential history.

Leaving West Wing to pursue Hollywood dream

Mass. native Jon Favreau, who was one of the youngest head speechwriters in presidential history, is working on a screenplay.

Columnists

Heading into his 14th season, Bill Belichick is the doyen of NFL coaches.

Christopher L. Gasper

Ranking the Boston sports coaches
Robert Ethan Saylor

JOAN VENNOCHI

Death over an $11.50 movie ticket

JEFF JACOBY

Yes, Europe, Hezbollah is a terror group

Bob Ryan

WAR stat in baseball is complete nonsense

Innovation Economy

Linking art, science, commerce
Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put an end to telecommuting at her company.

JOANNA WEISS

Marissa Mayer is insulting our intelligence
The modern look of Suffolk University’s planned classroom building.

Opinion | Lawrence Harmon

Town-gown peace

Opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

Politics imperil offshore wind sweet spots

SCOT LEHIGH

Baby boomers are the economy’s ‘oh, no!’
Magic Slim was a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of the Chicago blues.

CARLO ROTELLA

The shuffle done right

Kevin Cullen

‘Silver Linings’ a good take
At some point, the Celtics will have to face the facts that the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett era will run out of time.

Christopher L. Gasper

Hard to believe in these Celtics

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Egyptian activists burned a poster depicting John Kerry outside the foreign ministry.

John Kerry prods Egypt on economic reforms

Kerry made his first trip to an Arab capital as secretary of state on Saturday.

Politics

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Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney steps back on national stage

The former GOP presidential candidate is reemerging after nearly four months in seclusion.

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New tablets offer greater capabilities at lower prices

Rapid changes in tablets are bringing more choices, new features, and better prices.

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Sam Kassirer, 32, of Arlington, produces recordings in his studio (sometimes the rooms of the house) in Maine. He has played piano since he was 7, and been Josh Ritter’s keyboardist for 12 years, along with producing three Ritter albums.

Kassirer’s ear for Americana’s future

Sam Kassirer bought a farmhouse five years ago and has turned it into a Americana music factory.

Travel

Second Look

Life-size replica of a dilophosaurus is one of three full-scale dinosaur models on display at the EcoTarium in Worcester.

DinoTracks, EcoTarium in Worcester

The EcoTarium, a sprawling indoor-outdoor science and nature center, features life-size replicas dinosaurs.

Books

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Elizabeth Graver, author of “The End of the Point.”

‘The End of the Point’ by Elizabeth Graver

There are no end of frolicsome children and fretful parents in Graver’s beautifully orchestrated family symphony.

Magazine

The cover for the March 3 2013 issue

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
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James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
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A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
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Change on the Mystic

Opinion

“It is astonishing that anyone could regard Hezbollah as ‘benign,’ given its long history of murder, mayhem, and genocidal incitement.”

Jeff Jacoby  

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Beginning in the 1930s, New England ski trails quickly expanded, and today skiing isn’t the quaint small business it once was.

Ideas

“To proponents of this speculative new field, understanding the legal status of robots is key to how we want society to work once humans are no longer the only ones making important decisions.”

Leon Neyfakh on robot law