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Boston scrambles to accommodate kindergartners

More than 300 kindergartners do not know which school they will attend this fall as the city’s school system confronts rising demand and a shortage of seats.

Adaliz Rodriguez was struggling financially until a coach from a unique program at The Neighborhood Developers in Chelsea helped her learn new skills.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Chelsea nonprofit coaches clients to independence

The Neighborhood Developers is helping financially struggling families by pairing them with life coaches to help people out of poverty.

Abortion opposition group to back Scott Brown

The state’s leading antiabortion group plans to back Senator Scott Brown, potentially undercutting the Republican’s effort to distance himself from his party’s platform.

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s big tent collapses

If voters deem the abortion exceptions important, is it realistic to think that a President Romney would stand up for them?

Trent Theroux trained for his 13-mile swim from Point Judith to Block Island, which he will attempt in September.

Bill Greene/Globe Staff

R.I. man to swim for others, right where his life nearly ended

Trent Theroux, who was slashed by the blades of a boat’s propeller in 2002, will attempt a 13-mile swim in September to raise money for patients with spinal cord injuries.

Lance Armstrong to be stripped of 7 Tour de France titles

The US Anti-Doping Agency will ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his Tour de France titles. The sport’s governing International Cycling Union has not announced a decision.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox left picking up the pieces

A week from Saturday is Sept. 1, which will mark the one-year anniversary of the Red Sox stinking.

Hampshire College starts fund for students in US illegally

The private liberal arts college in Amherst has created a financial aid endowment that so far has raised $300,000 in donations from alumni, parents, and recent graduates.

Whole Foods recycles canola oil to power Everett facility

Oil from the commissary’s industrial fryers is burned to run a custom-designed generator that provides nearly all the electricity for the 70,000-square-foot building.

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The T and its predecessors

Private railroads and horse-drawn streetcar companies served the transportation needs of Boston and outlying towns for decades before the MBTA accepted its first token.

Globe exclusives

“I always liked the stories behind country music,” says Henry Horenstein.

Henry Horenstein exhibits his country music photographs

“We have some friends who can really wail,” says Beirut’s Ben Lanz. “It’s a happy situation, with everyone giddy to be playing.”

music

Beirut settles in

“Lake View” by William Wegman is part of the “Hello Nature” exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Art Review

‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ a dog and irony show

Elie Wiesel’s latest book, “Hostage,” is set in both the mid-’70s and during World War II.

Book Review

‘Hostage: A Novel’ by Elie Wiesel

editorial

Obama has been too slow to name federal judges

Abortion uproar may hurt GOP bid for Senate control

Michael Brodeur takes on a 650-pound tractor tire as part of the training during a session at Awesome Camp.

How I got awesome

It was a long night on Tuesday for Scott Podsednik, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Cody Ross (left to right) as the Red Sox lost again.

christopher l. gasper

It’s all over for the Red Sox

Crossword

Complete the daily puzzle online

“With EleVen, I’m trying to make things that look good on everyone,” says Williams.

style

Venus Williams serves up new fashion line

Dining Out

M3 offers down-home comfort

Tech lab

Samsung’s new Galaxy shoots for iPad, misses

Sports

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Angels 14, Red Sox 13

Sox reliever Alfredo Aceves looks a little shellshocked after watching Kendrys Morales’s homer leading off the Angels’ 10th clear the right-field fence.

Red Sox blow six-run lead, lose slugfest in 10th

The Red Sox were ahead 6-0 in the third inning, fell behind 8-6, and then came back to take a two-run lead in the ninth before losing in extra innings.

Metro

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Firefighters battled a hot spot during a three-alarm fire on Columbia Street in Cambridge Thursday.

Cambridge police rescue 3 from blaze

Six police officers rushed into a burning, smoke-filled building Thursday and rescued a man and a woman trapped on the third floor, as well as a man sleeping one floor below.

Columnists

boston capital

Big-box stores are in big trouble

Jackie, Sue, and Lynn as seen in “49 Up,” a 2005 British film that is part of a decades-long series of documentaries.

Joan Wickersham

A study of class captures shape, sweep of real lives

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox left picking up the pieces

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s big tent collapses

Joan Vennochi

Romney made Mass. his stepping stone

Chinese police stand guard at an anti-Japanese protest outside the Japanese consulate in Shanghai last week.

Edward L. Glaeser

Putting China at ease