Mitt Romney has financial edge in final months

The growing financial advantage comes after months of hoarding money as the Obama campaign spent heavily on TV ads trying to brand Romney early in the minds of voters.

Todd Akin rejected calls from Mitt Romney and other Republicans to end his bid for US Senate.

Republican plank opposes all abortions

The GOP platform committee approved language seeking a constitutional amendment for a total abortion ban, adding to the furor over Rep. Todd Akin’s rape comments.

Governor Patrick has been ratcheting up his activities on the campaign trail for President Obama.

Governor Patrick makes pitch for Obama in Midwest

Even while he said in an interview he had no ambition for higher office, Governor Patrick made a two-pronged appeal for President Obama’s reelection in Iowa and Wisconsin.

Dustin Pedroia went 1 for 5 against the Angels in another demoralizing 5-3 loss as the Red Sox dropped five games under .500.

Dan Shaughnessy

Dustin Pedroia gives his side of the story

Tuesday night, the Red Sox second baseman came home to Fenway Park, wearing the scars of his first public flogging by the beast of Boston baseball.

Dr. Paul Ridker, a Brigham and Women’s cardiologist who led the 2008 trial and is heading the new trials, gave a tour of the storage facility.

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Blood storage lab holds clues for disease prevention

Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have stored blood from more than 150,000 study subjects over the past two decades in a lab deep beneath Commonwealth Avenue.

MGM Resorts International’s ambitious Springfield project would include a mix of new construction and the renovation of some existing architecture over three city blocks.

A vast casino plan for Springfield

MGM’s ambitious $800 million project would remake the heart of the struggling Western Mass. city and rebuild areas severely damaged by a 2011 tornado.

Neighbors criticize bird-feeding resident in Hull

An 18-inch bird feeder has sparked a squall in this South Shore village, pitting a 70-year-old, bird-loving resident against her neighbors and Hull enforcement agencies.

Providence-based Citizens, the second-largest bank in Massachusetts, will lose four of its five ATMs at Logan Airport.

Logan Airport changes its ATM landscape

JP Morgan Chase, with no branches in Massachusetts, will hold more money machine spots than any other bank at the airport, forcing some local travelers to pay more.

Competition fierce in Mass. for software talent

The technology sector has added 3,300 computer engineering and Web development jobs since the beginning of this year, 50 percent more than in the same period in 2011.

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Paavali Jumppanen played the first piece on the new Steinway at the Gardner Museum.

A new Steinway is key element at Gardner hall
Cannoli shells at Modern Pastry in the North End.

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Cannoli have become Americanized
Aly Raisman drank water outside Needham Town Hall, where she announced a partnership with Poland Spring.

Aly Raisman lands Poland Spring endorsement deal
Jesse Werner, owner of Plymouth Artisan Cheese, mops the curds.

Food

Vermont cheesemaker takes over 120-year-old business
“Sea Town,” a woodblock print by Roger Martin.

Galleries

Drawing inspiration from a rocky landscape

Opinion

The Podium: Voices of New England
A lone violin hung on the wall of the Haverhill Music Centre that will close at the end of the month after nearly 60 years. In its heyday, hundreds of instruments adorned the walls.

Haverhill Music Centre closing after nearly 60 years
Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney greeted supporters at a rally Monday in Manchester, N.H.

Mitt Romney showing his Mormon faith

G Force

Amy Sohn explores parenting and infidelity through her fiction
Trainers tend to Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who took a shot to the ribs in the first quarter and didn’t return to action. X-rays were negative.

Christoper L. Gasper

Patriots defense answers few questions
Tony Scott, who died at 68 on Sunday.

Appreciation

Tony Scott, signature ’80s filmmaker

Special Section

Tanglewood & the Berkshires Experience

Sports

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Angels 5, Red Sox 3

Mark Trumbo’s long two-run homer in the fifth inning off Aaron Cook decided the game. The shot also may have ended Cook’s tenure in the rotation.

Struggling Red Sox fall to Angels

Mark Trumbo’s long two-run homer in the fifth inning off Red Sox pitcher Aaron Cook decided the game as the Angels beat the Sox, 5-3.

Metro

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Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis did not say why officers stopped the vehicle.

Boston police shoot, kill man after traffic stop

Police fatally shot a man who fled from a car in the South End and refused to drop a gun he was pointing at officers, officials said.

Columnists

Jeff Jacoby

Stingy liberals

Scot Lehigh

A familiar face stirs the pot in Maine

derrick z. jackson

Paul Ryan: Red meat in Congress, green jobs at home
Dustin Pedroia went 1 for 5 against the Angels in another demoralizing 5-3 loss as the Red Sox dropped five games under .500.

Dan Shaughnessy

Dustin Pedroia gives his side of the story

Joanna Weiss

Todd Akin should read more Cosmopolitan
Trainers tend to Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who took a shot to the ribs in the first quarter and didn’t return to action. X-rays were negative.

Christoper L. Gasper

Patriots defense answers few questions
Beantown Bedding cofounders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple.

Innovation Economy

Start-up creates disposable sheets for dorm beds

james carroll

Bridging the science gap

Adrian Walker

Desperate for answers after shocking murders
Carl Crawford backpedals to the warning track to haul in a ball hit by Eric Chavez to end the first.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s time for Red Sox to look to future
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, is shown in Manhattan with the Grand Central Terminal building in the background in 1962.

JOANNA WEISS

Sex and the conservatives’ matriarch

Jeff Jacoby

Immigration reform key to economic revival

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A picket in front of Parliament carried a poster reading “WTO is Death for Russia” in Moscow Tuesday.

Russia joins WTO; rights, tariffs still concerns

After two decades of negotiations, Russia will finally join the World Trade Organization on Wednesday.

Politics

The survey by the Pew Research Center found 72 percent of respondents were aware of Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to provide vouchers for the purchase of private health insurance, which the Wisconsin congressman has since revised.

Majority opposes Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan

More than seven in 10 Americans have heard of Rep. Ryan’s proposal to eliminate Medicare, and among them, those who oppose the idea outnumber supporters, according to a poll.

Nation & World

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Kindergarteners lined up for lunch on the first day of school Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Lunchtime can be a crucial part of a child’s school day.

Food coaches push nutrition in US schools

At a School Nutrition Association conference in Denver this summer, food workers heard tips about how to get children to make healthy food choices in the cafeteria.

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Annie (Kristen Bell) and Charlie (Dax Shepard) rolling in “Hit & Run.”

‘Hit & Run’ delivers hits, and a few misses

Some of this road movie starring Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard is smart and intentionally funny, some of it is coarse and unintentionally not funny at all.

Food & dining

Cheap Eats

The Feisty Greek gyro includes crisp french fries.

Authentic gyros and other Greek specialties in Norwood

George and Kostas “Charlie” Tiglianidis are serious about their gyros.

Living Longer, Living Better

Health

JoyceMor, a sleep technologist at Sleep Health Centers in Weymouth, prepares Talia Yourell of Weymouth for a sleep study.

For aging baby boomers, sleep gets harder to come by

As we age, medical conditions can make a good night’s rest elusive. But there are steps we can take.

“The birds come onto my property all day — back porch, front porch. . . . I’m just at wits’ end and totally frustrated.”

John MacKinnon,  on his Hull neighbor Gail Kansky’s bird feeder

Magazine

The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

How Bain Capital is trying — reluctantly — to clean up its name
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms

Opinion

“For years, academic research and national studies have confirmed that Americans who lean to the left politically tend to be much less charitable than those who tilt rightward.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“If the bill becomes law, the identities of people who die in Massachusetts--notably those who, like Bill Cosby, have built up bankable personas over the course of their lives--will become pieces of property that continue to exist long after they do.”

 Leon Neyfakh