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'THE MECHANIC' BY BEN MEZRICH

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Chapter 16: The Book of Bells
Professor Adrian Jenson didn't much like the Boston Tea Party Museum, but he needed something there.

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We're getting deep into "The Mechanic," Ben Mezrich's fictional tour of Boston. The board is set. The characters are coming into focus. And blood has been spilled. Join now to get in on the rest of the action.

Trump presses for schools to reopen, takes dig at Fauci

President Donald Trump called on governors across the nation Wednesday to work to reopen schools.
Here?s what Fauci said about college students returning to campus in the fall From Dr. Fauci, a reality check for colleges and students as they look toward fall

?Not a virus to be trifled with,? Baker says, as governor holds firm on slow return; coronavirus deaths top 5,300

Days before Massachusetts is slated to begin to reopen its economy, Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday insisted that a deliberate, phased approach, underpinned by the continued expansion of COVID-19 testing, is the best path toward a new normal, as the state?s coronavirus death toll topped 5,300.
Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts

Boston College will take over Pine Manor

Harvard Medical School says incoming students will learn online; UMass Medical School will hold classes on campus

Massachusetts families get a lifeline against hunger: $400 per child, whether they need it or not

Opinion

Joan Vennochi

Boston, unplugged from traffic. Can it last?
Renée Graham

Remembering lives lost to coronavirus, one tweet at a time
JEFF JACOBY

The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago
Scot Lehigh

Trump fights the truth as the US battles coronavirus

Comfort Zone

How to get everyone in your house to help keep things tidy-ish

Urbanity Dance is projecting pop-up dance videos, powered by car battery, onto Boston buildings

The Boston Book Festival is looking for essays about this challenging time

Mass Audubon?s Bird-a-thon starts Friday, with a backyard focus

COVID-19 was thought largely to spare children. Now a rare inflammatory syndrome seen in the young has doctors perplexed.
Boston Children?s Hospital has treated six patients with what doctors are now calling ?pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome," which may be linked to the coronavirus.

Vacationing in R.I. this summer? You might need to be tested first
If you?re a tourist or second-home owner planning to visit Rhode Island this summer, you might have to start your vacation with a swab up your nose.

Coronavirus spikes could emerge weeks after US economic reopenings
States are beginning to restart their economies after months of paralyzing coronavirus lockdowns, but it could take weeks until it becomes clear whether those reopenings will cause a spike in COVID-19 case.

First Black Princeton University valedictorian to attend MIT this fall
Nicholas Johnson will be the first Black student to give a valedictorian speech at Princeton since the university opened 274 years ago.

Jim McBride
Patriots receiver Marqise Lee hopes to put last two injury-riddled seasons behind him
Lee missed all of 2018 after a hit in an exhibition game resulted in a torn ACL, MCL, and PCL. His 2019 campaign last just six games because of a shoulder injury.

Dave Epstein | Weather
Cooler temperatures will continue, but warmth and more rain are on the way
Boston?s official low of 37 degrees did break the record for May 13, set way back in 1878 and 1882.

Record-breaking low temperature reported in Boston Wednesday morning

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5-alarm fire strikes vacant mill in Norton

UMass Medical student who survived coronavirus now takes care of people who have it

Boston, Newton, Weston consider bicycle improvements along Route 30

On StatNews.com

Covid-19 has streamlined addiction medicine. Will the changes stick?

6 takeaways from the Senate?s surreal virtual hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response

Coronavirus resources

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

Boston is still running

Town-by-town coronavirus data in Massachusetts

A list of layoffs and furloughs in Massachusetts (so far) due to coronavirus

Elegies for those lost to coronavirus

A scholarship is awarded to a surprised student in a most unusual way
Ainsley Peña?s life changed forever Tuesday afternoon, when the 18-year-old stepped out of her Roxbury home to find a drone descending from the sky with a special delivery: a cloth bag from Curry College in Milton with a message inside.

Video: Watch the surprise unfold

TRAVEL
This restaurant in Amsterdam is redefining pandemic dining with private ?greenhouses?
Most of what we love about restaurants makes dining out problematic during the coronavirus pandemic. Sure, we love eating the food, but going to restaurants is just as much about experiencing the service, being out of your house, and immersed in a communal atmosphere.

Aimee Stephens, transgender plaintiff in potentially landmark Supreme Court case, dies at 59
Aimee Stephens, whose potentially groundbreaking case before the Supreme Court could have major implications for the fight for civil rights for transgender people, died Tuesday at her home in Michigan.

STAT

A secret experiment revealed: In a medical first, doctors treat Parkinson?s with a novel brain cell transplant

If successful, the surgery could forever change Parkinson?s disease, from an inexorable, cruel, and sometimes fatal decline to ? for at least some patients ? a condition that can be successfully treated.

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I have been told to return to work but I worry it won?t be safe. What can I do?

Here are 16 questions and answers about the return to work you might be wondering about.

From Dr. Fauci, a reality check for colleges and students as they look toward fall
During a Senate hearing Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that coronavirus vaccines or treatments are unlikely to be widely available by this fall, leaving both colleges and students alike with uncertainty about the fall semester.

A scholarship is awarded to a surprised student in a most unusual way
Ainsley Peña?s life changed forever Tuesday afternoon, when the 18-year-old stepped out of her Roxbury home to find a drone descending from the sky with a special delivery: a cloth bag from Curry College in Milton with a message inside.

Rhode Island

New cases hold steady but deaths climb as Governor Raimondo looks ahead to summer

As Rhode Island enters its first week without a stay-at-home order, Governor Gina M. Raimondo admitted she is still trying to chart a course for Rhode Island?s summer tourism.

Vacationing in R.I. this summer? You might need to be tested first

Rhode Island?s ?new normal? needs to work for everyone
Newton

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Renée Graham

Remembering lives lost to coronavirus, one tweet at a time
JEFF JACOBY

The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago
Scot Lehigh

Trump fights the truth as the US battles coronavirus
EDITORIAL

Citizens should not be emboldened to make arrests
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | CHELSEA CONABOY

New mothers, don?t fear: You were made for times like this

VISUAL STORIES

Patriots defensive end Chase Winovich may be confined, but he?s hardly at a standstill

Photos: Celebrating Mother?s Day, from a social distance

A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemic

Boston Globe staff photographer Erin Clark named Feature Photography Pulitzer finalist for 2020

metro

Summer fairs, festivals canceled in Greater Boston
The Brockton Fair, the St. Peter's Fiesta in Glouceter, The Lowell Folk Festival and Newburyport's Homecoming festival won't be held this summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Death toll from COVID-19 reaches 96 in Newton

Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller also said that the number of positive coronavirus cases had grown to 675.

Suzuki School of Newton works to continue classes during COVID-19 pandemic

Switching to online instruction was essential, school officials said, in order to continue building the relationships among students and teachers.

Less traffic on Mass. Pike means less noise, pollution for Newton residents

Several projects would boost bicycle access in Newton

sports

Tennis

US Open searching for alternative sites to Flushing Meadows in New York

The US Open accounts for more than 80 percent of the USTA?s revenue, so a cancellation would be devastating.

Nassar-related charges dismissed against former MSU president Lou Anna Simon

A circuit judge ruled a lower court judge had abused her discretion in finding enough evidence to keep the case going.

MIAA board recommends COVID-19 task force

The task force would return to the next board meeting with any concerns regarding the fall 2020 season and beyond.
Jim McBride

Patriots receiver Marqise Lee hopes to put last two injury-riddled seasons behind him

The sports world is beginning to reopen; here is where some major sports stand

NASCAR to resume season Sunday, with adjustments

STAT

Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues

Experts question Facebook?s approach to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Covid-19 has shuttered labs. It could put a generation of researchers at risk

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Business

TALKING POINTS
Grocery prices in April had biggest monthly jump in nearly 50 years
Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

US meat plants are changing, signaling end of 99-cent chicken
The likely result of changes in response to the pandemic: higher costs for an industry that?s been very efficient at pumping out cheap meat.

ANALYSIS

Saving lives or saving the economy? Reopening doesn?t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition

Trump says he disagrees with Fauci over reopening

Tesla plant buzzing ahead of permission to resume operations

Democrats unveil historic rule change to allow remote voting in Congress during pandemic

Politics

Trump presses for schools to reopen, takes dig at Fauci

Michael Flynn case boosts Trump?s bid to undo Russia probe narrative, shift focus from pandemic

Jared Kushner sparks backlash with comments about holding November election

Marijuana

Help wanted, no pot test required: New NYC law takes effect

Marijuana banking access included in House leadership?s coronavirus relief bill
magazine
Perspective

I?ve been sheltering in place my whole life and I?m over it
Style Watch

Home design inspiration: Going glam, with a Gwen Stefani edge
Cover story

The ?fourth trimester? and plight of new mothers during a pandemic
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, May 11-17

sports

Instant replay: The best sports on TV Thursday

Baseball players? union holds internal discussions on MLB?s restart proposal

Jaylen Brown says NBA probably would go right to playoffs with a restart

metro

Summer fairs, festivals canceled in Greater Boston

Death toll from COVID-19 reaches 96 in Newton

Suzuki School of Newton works to continue classes during COVID-19 pandemic

Nation

Justices ask if chaos will ensue if states can?t force electors to back popular-vote winners

Brigham, Dana-Farber to study whether plasma from recovered coronavirus patients can treat the sick

Memorial Day is coming, and Cape Cod beaches still aren?t ready for the masses amid the coronavirus

World

As countries restart, WHO warns about lack of virus tracing

Iranian friendly fire kills 19 in 2nd missile accident of year

Fire at nursing home in Moscow suburb kills 9, injures 9

politics

Michael Flynn case boosts Trump?s bid to undo Russia probe narrative, shift focus from pandemic

Jared Kushner sparks backlash with comments about holding November election

Ocasio-Cortez among top Democrats on Biden-Sanders unity task forces

business

Grocery prices in April had biggest monthly jump in nearly 50 years

US meat plants are changing, signaling end of 99-cent chicken

Saving lives or saving the economy? Reopening doesn?t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition

lifestyle

The Boston Book Festival is looking for essays about this challenging time

How to get everyone in your house to help keep things tidy-ish

Mass Audubon?s Bird-a-thon starts Friday, with a backyard focus

marijuana

Help wanted, no pot test required: New NYC law takes effect

Marijuana banking access included in House leadership?s coronavirus relief bill

The next Mass. marijuana commissioner is not allowed to be a registered Democrat

opinion

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Boston, unplugged from traffic. Can it last?

The coronavirus is deepening inequalities

food & dining

Recipe: This classic all-beef meatloaf is a comfort-food classic

Cooking together, cooking apart

Recipe: Velvety, bright-green spring pea soup is ridiculously simple to make

travel

How to make sure your next hotel stay is a safe one

This restaurant in Amsterdam is redefining pandemic dining with private ?greenhouses?

The life of a travel influencer when there?s no travel

Books

Chapter 16: The Book of Bells

Chapter 15: ?This one?s gonna hurt?

Chapter 14: Puzzles to solve

Movies

In ?Capone,? Scarface retires to Florida ? but retiring he?s definitely not

One actress to another: Kristen Stewart plays the title role in ?Seberg?

In ?Blood and Money,? watch out for those northwest Maine woods in winter

Television

?The Great? gleefully rewrites history

?Killing Eve?: From fantastic to forgettable

What spoiled ?Hollywood? ? spoilers included

music

Jordan Hall will remain off-limits for concert rentals until June 2021

When Little Richard gave up rock 'n' roll for Jesus

Andre Harrell helped kick in the door for the culture

Theater/Dance

In isolation, theater couples entertain new ideas ? and each other

Gloucester Stage cancels summer season

Urbanity Dance is projecting pop-up dance videos, powered by car battery, onto Boston buildings

globe local

Death toll from COVID-19 reaches 96 in Newton

Suzuki School of Newton works to continue classes during COVID-19 pandemic

Less traffic on Mass. Pike means less noise, pollution for Newton residents

Obituaries

Longtime pass-rushing tutor John Teerlinck dies at age 69

A league of her own: Women?s sports pioneer Mary Pratt dies at 101

Andre Harrell, executive who bridged hip-hop and R&B, dies at 59