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Spotlight report | Part 1

For Boston cabbies, a losing battle against the numbers

A nine-month Globe investigation finds a taxi trade where fleet owners get rich, drivers are frequently fleeced, and the city does little about it.

Driven to the Edge: A Globe Spotlight Team investigation

The cab industry in Boston is a world of common payoffs and driver exploitation.

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How does a cabbie make money?

The Globe obtained fare-by-fare data for one cab driver. It reveals a job filled with frustrating days and uncertain incomes.

Waiting periods can be costly for workers

Many companies impose waiting periods to join 401(k) plans — and those delays can end up costing workers tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings.

Doctors firing back at patients’ online critiques

The lawsuits target former patients, and sometimes their relatives, over negative ratings and reviews they have posted on the Internet.

“It isn’t politics with me. It’s me being his friend,” said Anthony Albano, a veteran foot soldier for Mayor Thomas Menino.

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Who will inherit Menino’s political machine?

Mayor Menino has decided not to seek a sixth term and vowed not to try to anoint a successor. Can the machine survive?

JOANNA WEISS

The kingdom of Menino

Mayor Menino won over Boston because he knew its people, and trusted them to follow him.

Chinese émigrés in the US flocking to ‘QQ’

China’s giant social media companies are gaining a foothold in US cities as thousands of immigrants transport the new technology to America.

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Winter All-Scholastics

Honoring the area’s best school athletes

Matt Stone and Trey Parker worked on “The Book of Mormon” over several years.

‘Mormon’ team has made more than fun

Bill Ciaccio is a regional supervisor for Aftermath Inc., a crime and trauma cleanup company in North Attleborough.

On the job

Cleaning up after the police have gone

Directed by Danny Boyle (center), “Trance” stars Rosario Dawson (top left), Vincent Cassel (top right) and James McAvoy (bottom left).

Danny Boyle talks about his art-heist thriller

Cycling siblings Tom and Laura DiNardo on the final day in Fitzwilliam, N.H., where the family noted the first sign for Boston.

A family bike trip from Montreal to Boston

Says Dustin Pedroia of John Farrell: “He’s very strong-toned. It’s not that guys fear him, but I think they respect him so much that forces them to believe in what he wants us to do. It’s very helpful.”

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In John Farrell, Red Sox finally found their man

Students take a swing dance lesson at Savaria Dance Studio in Norwood. Many say they are attracted by the benefits of dancing.

Globe West Sunday preview

Everybody gets footloose

Derrick Z. Jackson

March Madness brings vast graduation gaps

Laura Knight, “Flying the Kite.” 1910, oil on canvas.

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‘Edwardian Opulence’ at the Yale Center for British Art

Kate Scott says the only one she regularly e-mails is her mother.

E-mail a thing of past for business, young

Jeremy Piven stars as Harry Selfridge, an American retailer in early 1900s London, in the “Masterpiece Classic” miniseries.

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Piven not good as gold in ‘Mr. Selfridge’

“I’ve been looking at her letters, her e-mails, her messages. I’ve been looking at her pictures from her birth right up to her 17th birthday,’’ said Katherine Cremin, as she sat teary-eyed in her Stoneham apartment. “I can still see her funeral. I want answers. Who killed my daughter?”

18 years later, still no answers in Deanna Cremin’s death

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MLB preview 2013

Red Sox in a chemistry lesson this year

How much does team chemistry matter? The 2013 Red Sox, with several high-character players added to the roster, will try to find out.

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Flyers 3, Bruins 1

Zdeno Chara (33) mixed it up with Luke Schenn, but the Bruins showed little fight vs. the Flyers.

Sloppy Bruins fall apart against Flyers

The down-and-out Flyers, second-to-last in the Eastern Conference standings heading into the game, grabbed a 3-1 win.

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From left: Linda Dorcena Forry’s stronghold is the diverse Dorchester neighborhood, Maureen Dahill is a political newcomer with strong South Boston roots, and Nick Collins aims to reach young voters throughout the district.

Rivals for ‘Southie seat’ make appeal to a wider district

The state Senate race is being seen as a faceoff between Boston’s Irish-American political old guard and its burgeoning multiethnic, multicultural identity.