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Housing-starved cities seek relief in micro-apartments

With growing US cities looking to hold on to young professionals, city officials are experimenting with the construction of tiny dwelling units.

Wegmans may open in Fenway, near Whole Foods

It is a food fight that could do a world of good for local consumers: Wegmans versus Whole Foods in a battle for supermarket supremacy.

Menino touts ambitious agenda

Mayor Menino did not say whether he plans to run again, but he unveiled major initiatives today including 30,000 new housing units and a Wegmans in Fenway’s Landmark Center.

Pharmacy recalls drugs after foreign matter is found

Pallimed, a compounding pharmacy in Woburn, voluntarily recalled more than a dozen products after regulators found “foreign matter” in vials of injectable drugs.

Yale Center for British Art

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A royal ‘Zebra,’ by George Stubbs

Eighteenth-century British artist George Stubbs painted Queen Charlotte’s zebra, which grazed on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

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Bruins win in a shootout

The Bruins rallied from a two-goal deficit to win in overtime at TD Garden.

Many mothers feed babies solid food too soon, report says

Feeding babies solid food too early can increase health risks later for the child, researchers say.

Opinion | The Podium

Same-sex marriage — protecting equality under the law

Christopher Ott of the ACLU of Massachusetts predicts that pockets of resistance will likely shrink and fade away.

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Tax breaks won by the Washington lobbying industry, centered on the K Street corridor, show how cheap it is, relatively speaking, to buy political influence.

Special Report

Broken City: Politics in an age of paralysis

Boston University medical student Erica Perry checks on patient Alma Conroy at Boston Medical Center.

Health

Empathy gap in medical students

“After a while, you start to think, ‘Am I ever going to work again?’ ” said John McLaughlin, who lost his job as manager of a Fidelity Investments call center two years ago.

Joblessness hits older workers hard

A sense of urgency on Gardner art recovery

Above (clockwise from left): Arthur Leeth (as the King), Elizabeth Olds (as the Queen) and Misa Kuranaga (as Princess Aurora) in Boston Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty.”

Dance Review

Ballet’s ‘Beauty’ awakens the senses

Babson taps Kerry Healey as president

Fans of StarCraft II watched video of a battle between gamers.

Video gaming now a spectator sport

From left: Erik Lochtefeld, Michael Manuel, and Paul Giamatti in Yale Repertory Theatre’s “Hamlet.’’

Stage Review

Giamatti plays Hamlet as antic Everyschlub

A NASA image shows the SpaceX capsule Dragon being snagged by an arm of the International Space Station this month.

Space station to aid firm’s drug research

In 1942, Harvard scientists conducted the first test of a napalm bomb in a pond dug behind the Business School.

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Napalm, from Harvard to Vietnam

Arthur Johnson (left), Kevin Batt, Barbara Kaplan, and David Bor pooled their resources to buy a vacant lot in their Jamaica Plain neighborhood and are planning to build new housing on the site.

Neighbors team up to develop empty lot

Courtney Kane says her daughter, Julia, has brought great rewards. Kane and her husband have no regrets.

As Down detection gets easier, choices harder

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Bradley does it again at the plate

Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a pinch-hit two-run single for the Red Sox in the eighth and a triple in the ninth against the Orioles in a spring training game.