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Egypt’s military issues ultimatum to Morsi, opponents

Amid protests calling for the president’s ouster, the military said it will intervene in 48 hours if Mohammed Morsi and his opponents do not reach an agreement.

Trial of ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Ex-FBI agent apologizes to family of Bulger victim

John Morris grew emotional as he apologized for what could have been his “indirect” role in the killing of Michael Donahue in 1982.

An out-of-control wildfire burned homes near Yarnell, Arizona, on Sunday.

Wildfire kills 19 firefighters in Arizona

A lightning-sparked wildfire fanned by gusty winds killed 19 firefighters, the deadliest such toll in the US in decades.

Kerry tries to quell European outrage over NSA actions

France’s president demanded that the US immediately stop its alleged eavesdropping on EU diplomats.

Bidding on eBay for a jersey bearing Aaron Hernandez’s name has reached $227. The piece of Patriots apparel originally sold for $50.

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Aaron Hernandez jerseys are hot items on eBay

Bidding on eBay for jerseys bearing Hernandez’s name has reached near $300 in some cases.

Vincent Lecavalier is strong on the puck and skilled in the danger areas.

Bruins, Vincent Lecavalier have ‘good meeting’

Nathan Horton’s decision to hit the market when free agency opens jacked up the heat on the Bruins’ chase of Lecavalier.

The cost of having a baby in the United States is billed item by item, a practice that has spiraled in the last decade.

US childbirth is uniquely expensive, study says

The cost of having a baby in the United States is billed item by item, a practice that has spiraled in the last decade.

At the Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester, a $50 million renovation five years ago has done little to entice students to enroll, and more than half of the seats are empty.

High school student decline a strain for Boston

Public high school enrollment is on the slide, leaving nearly 3,000 seats empty and raising questions about possible school closures.

Opinion

JAMES CARROLL

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The Constitution pursues not perfection, which is impossible, but the “more perfect,” which always beckons.

Globe exclusives

The sketch artists provided their own perspective of the scene in the courtroom when John Martorano testified at James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial.

Sketch artists in their element
Marathon bombing victim John Odom was escorted across the finish line of One Run for Boston by his daughter Nicole Reis.

One Run ends on heartfelt note
Mormon teenagers followed a muddy path in Auburn, N.H.

Trek of tradition by Mormon teens
Professor Paula Hammond

MIT targets bone-repair surgery
From left: Guiesseppe Jones, Natalie Mendoza, and James Barry star in the Chester Theatre Company production of Steven Sater’s “Arms on Fire.”

Stage Review

‘Arms on Fire’ fails to light a spark
Nina Rossi holding her iPod Touch with a photo Lance Rice took after he robbed Rossi’s house.

Health

Heroin plagues rural Mass. towns
Rene Westbrook uses images of icons, monoliths, statuary, people, and landscapes from around the world in her collages.

Art Review

Myths, tyranny glower in Westbrook collages
Jayne Atkinson as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Treat Williams as Henry II in “The Lion in Winter” in Stockbridge.

Stage Review

‘The Lion in Winter’ roars to life
Alex Rodriguez’s $250 million contract with the Texas Rangers changed him, and not for the better.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Alex Rodriguez, what have you done?
Divers and staff at the New England Aquarium worked to move a bonnethead shark to its new home in the renovated Giant Ocean Tank.

Aquarium’s giant tank is a renovated marvel
Real estate agent Patty Chen (right) and one of her clients, Jane, in Brookline. Chen helps people from China buy homes.

Overseas buyers flood region’s realty market
Among the Sinovel wind turbines in the United States is this one in Charlestown. The Sinovel case “illustrates the heavy baggage that some Chinese firms carry on their journey to global markets,” said Thilo Hanemann at Rhodium Group.

Theft case against Chinese firm carries a warning

Sports

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On Baseball

Brandon Snyder knocked in two runs for the Red Sox with a double in the second inning.

Brandon Snyder shows Red Sox’ impressive depth

The former No. 1 draft pick of the Orioles who never lived up to his billing came through big for the Red Sox on Sunday.

Metro

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Julius Anaya and other Harvard Kent School fourth-graders attended World Ocean School aboard the Roseway.

Students learn sailing, navigation aboard ship

The crew aboard the historic Roseway will teach high-risk middle school students from Revere, and disabled students from Boston.

Columnists

JAMES CARROLL

Our halting progress toward justice
The Franklin Park Zoo’s new Baird’s tapir calf will make her debut in a few weeks and will look similar to this calf, born there in 2007.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Don’t feed the animals (do feed the zoo)
Abubakar “Bubbles” Suleiman, 15, has made grea t st rides at Ro xbur y’ s Orchard Gardens school af ter moving to Bos ton from Nigeria.

Yvonne Abraham

A graduate’s inspiring story

JEFF JACOBY

Civil-rights generation prisoner to its fears

JOANNA WEISS

Rich for a day, at least until the credits roll
Katie Mattscheck, an employee at In the Pink in Boston, uses Sagamore Retail to determine which items are selling.

Innovation Economy

Technology a hard sell to local shops
Richard Seymour, Robert Kraft, his son Jonathan, Myra Kraft, Tedy Bruschi, and Ty Law performed the Super Bowl victory dance at City Hall Plaza in 2004.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Without Myra, the Patriots lost their way
As their No. 2 all-time scorer, Paul Pierce’s place in Celtics history is assured.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics’ trade hurts, but it was time
Once known for petty crime and drugs, the now-popular Brewer Plaza was renovated and opened last summer.

RENÉE LOTH

Brewer Plaza, reborn

derrick z. jackson

US is a segregated joint on marijuana
Officer David Williams has been fired twice.

lawrence harmon

Do arbitrators give violent cops a pass?

Tech Lab

Where to turn without Google Reader

Nation & World

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President Rafael Correa appeared to suggest the NSA leaker is unlikely to end up in Ecuador.

Ecuador leader cools to Edward Snowden

President Rafael Correa appeared to suggest the NSA leaker is unlikely to end up in Ecuador.

Politics

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian.

Koutoujian launches bid for Markey’s House seat

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian, a Waltham Democrat, calls public service his “life’s work.”

Business

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Doron Kempel worked at EMC before starting SimpliVity.

Software company helps firms save on data centers

SimpliVity Inc. aims to save customers money and time by virtualizing not just server computers but entire data centers.

Arts

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Book Review

Paul A. Offit is chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

‘Do You Believe in Magic?’ by Paul Offit

The book is a briskly written and well-researched examination of alternative medicine.

Health and wellness

In Practice

A weighty issue with multiple viewpoints

The question of whether obesity itself is a disease has been controversial.

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Magazine

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Rethinking the golden years
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The bee keepers
The cover for the June 16 2013 issue

Last of their kind
The cover for the June 9 2013 issue

Seaside haven

Globe Insiders

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Full Globe coverage of the gangster’s ongoing trial, life on the run, and notorious legacy in Boston.

Ideas

“To North Korea, the main security threat is not the United States. It is the prosperity, wealth, and prestige of South Korea.”

Sheila Miyoshi Jager,  on the unfinished war between the two Koreas