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Obama seeks to persuade skeptical on Syria

President Obama is confronted with one of his most difficult foreign policy tests and faces a Congress divided about overseas conflict.

US long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad , 64, walked to dry sand, completing her swim from Cuba as she arrives in Key West.

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‘Never, ever give up,’ Nyad urges after Cuba-Florida swim

On her fifth try, Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage.

Boston Mayoral candidate Charlotte Golar Richie at the annual Labor Council breakfast in Boston today.

Golar Richie touts plan to increase Boston jobs

Using Labor Day as a springboard, mayoral candidate Charlotte Golar Richie issued proposals for increasing the number of jobs.

John Lackey is not pleased after giving up the first run of the game in the seventh inning (on an Andy Dirks triple).

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TIGERS 3, RED SOX 0

John Lackey is a hard-luck loser again

Lackey turned in a solid start but got no support as the Red Sox lost to the Tigers, 3-0.

Global Rescue employees Bryan Kewley (left) and Kevin Helm participated in company training exercises.

World’s perils give rise to a rescue business

Companies are sending employees around the globe, and Boston security firm Global Rescue is in demand.

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

The Demoulas family and Liberty Mutual are divided by the way they treat their workers, but united by greed.

Galileo Mondol, 17, was charged in an alleged sex assault at a camp attended by 165 Somerville High School students.

Somerville mayor vows to review sexual assault case

Three Somerville High School students allegedly sexually assaulted underclassman members of the school’s junior varsity boys’ soccer team.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/02/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/james_carroll_150px-2106.png The data mine

This juncture of near-infinite data collection and total analysis capacity achieves a critical mass in the penetration of secrets.

Globe exclusives

Elizabeth Mitchell and Dan Zanes (right) with Mitchell’s husband, Daniel Littleton, and daughter, Storey Littleton, in Woodstock, N.Y., where they collaborated on the album “Turn, Turn, Turn.”

Teaming up for a kid-friendly album

Smart timing for smartwatches?
After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children’s Hospital, Katie Mills started to speak in complete sentences for the first time.

Health

A drug for autism?
Dr. Stephen Bergman wrote “The House of God” and other works under the pen name Samuel Shem.

Q&A | ‘Samuel Shem’

Author revisits ‘The House of God’

Album Review | ROCK

Rattling cages for better on ‘Worse’
Lalla Essaydi’s triptych “Bullets Revisited #3” from 2012.

Photography Review

Daughters of Scheherazade
Across New England, areas like the Swift River Valley (above, left, in the 1880s and in 2010) in Petersham have seen their forests, once cut down and cleared for farmland, replenished in the 21st century.

From the Sunday Globe

New England sees return of forests, wildlife

This fall, Boston’s momentum will face a significant test as the city elects its first new mayor in a generation.

Boston on upswing, poll shows
Derek Nally’s sisters Cathy Brennan, Susan Giugno, and Cheryl Wolfe want answers in his death. Arbour staff waited to try to revive him, officials say.

From the Sunday Globe

Staff failures cited in psychiatric patient deaths
Qiang Ke (left) and Yi Zhang rolled a bed from their old apartment on Commonwealth Avenue to their new one on Babcock Street.

photo gallery

Move-in day
Marie Kosnik (left) and Carrie Kosnik ate lunch at Ten Center Street Restaurant and Pub during the Taste of Newburyport food tour.

travel

Newburyport food tour leads to good eats
Tight supplies have made house hunting difficult for Carrie and Rich Garfield. The couple has lost out in three bidding wars on homes in Newton and Belmont.

House hunting more complicated

Sports

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US OPEN

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Roberta Vinci reaches US Open quarterfinals

Vinci reached the US Open quarterfinals for the second straight year, beating fellow Italian Camila Giorgi.

Metro

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The new system should benefit time-pinched families.

New website tracks stops by Boston school buses

The site, tested last year with a few hundred families, will officially go live this school year for families across Boston.

Columnists

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking
State Senator Dan Wolf holds 23 percent interest in Cape Air.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The Dan Wolf exemption
(From left to right) Ray Flynn; Martin O’Malley; Héctor Luis Acevedo; Michael Nutter; Kim Driscoll; Ed Rendell; Kevin White; Amram Mitzna; and Tom Menino.

Yvonne Abraham

Would-be mayors’ mayors

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

JEFF JACOBY

Privatizing Logan fixes ethics problem
Tiger Woods drove his way to a 4-under-par 67 and a tie for 20th.

Dan Shaughnessy

Tiger Woods in Boston spotlight
Brightleaf vice president Jeff Turner (left) and CEO Dan Gaffney. The firm’s goal is to help lawyers streamline the document production.

Innovation economy

Start-ups take on lawyers

Bob Ryan

No shortage of topics to discuss
Charlotte Rose Kelly died at age 5. The new park was built in her memory.

Beverly Beckham

A gift in memory of a child, and a sign

Phil Mickelson was in deep trouble on No. 9, his final hole, but he hacked out and made a nice bogey save.

Christopher L. Gasper

Phil Mickelson a cut above at Deutsche Bank Championship
Seamus Heaney taught for 20 years at Harvard.

Kevin Cullen

Life of engagement, wondrous words

Nation & World

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Secretary of State John Kerry campaigned for the military action on five morning talk shows.

Kerry urges congress to OK strike

Secretary of state John Kerry urged lawmakers to approve strikes on Syria to preserve “American credibility in foreign policy.”

Boston mayoral race

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THE MAYORAL RACE: THE CANDIDATES

Martin Walsh at a senior services center.

Early struggles gave Martin Walsh a solid underpinning

The mayoral candidate says he has yet to have a bad day on the trail. Alcoholism, bullets, and cancer can give a man perspective.

Business

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APP SMART

Spotify

Streaming for a good beat that’s to your taste

Discovering new music is still possible via the latest and fast-evolving trend in digital music: streaming.

Arts

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Book Review

George Johnson touches on a wide range of topics in his book, from the fact that dinosaurs got the disease to surprising statistics tied to residents of Love Canal and Hiroshima.

‘The Cancer Chronicles’ by George Johnson

Johnson, a veteran science reporter, offers up his own knowledge and insights into cancer.

Health and wellness

Nutrition and You!

Tips to help you reduce food cravings

Food cravings, an intense desire for a specific food, occur in up to 97 percent of individuals.

Globe Insiders

From the Archives | Photo gallery

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Magazine

The cover for the August 25 2013 issue

Little folk
The cover for the August 18 2013 issue

Sharks Inc.
The cover for the August 11 2013 issue

Daniel Nava, the long shot
The cover for the August 4 2013 issue

The lake house

Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force