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A young girl from Guatemala, who spoke only her native Spanish, hadn’t been in the country very long when she needed to be seen at Boston Medical Center. She was assigned a male doctor. She also was assigned an interpreter...

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Boston becomes even more patriotic than usual this week with Harborfest, a sprawling celebration that uses the Fourth of July as a good reason to showcase the city’s attractions...

Boston University’s Sargent Center for Outdoor Education (SCOE), threatened with closure because of the University’s budget shortfall, will live on. read

Patrick Doherty, a 19-year-old College of Arts & Sciences student who had just completed his freshman year, died on June 17 in his hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska. read more

If you don’t venture beyond the GSU for lunch, you must be getting tired of the same deli sandwiches day after day. To satisfy that primal urge for a burger — a real burger — head up Comm Ave or down to Kenmore Square until you find the meat-eater’s haven known as UBurger...

N72EH. That lettering on the tail of a new Sikorsky S-76 EMS helicopter may mean little to most people. But to Boston MedFlight pilot John Marden, the last two letters resonate, invoking the memory of Erwin Hirsch, a key figure in the origin of critical care transport in this region...

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It’s an Amazing Race offered to the rest of us. Gather your best sleuthing friends and head to Boston Common to compete in an interactive “secret agent” case that will send you crisscrossing downtown Boston in search of clues...

Nancy Kopell and Laurence Kotlikoff have been chosen as the University’s newest William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors, Boston University President Robert A. Brown announced yesterday. read mo

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Put on your thinking cap tonight and visit the Milky Way Lounge in new Jamaica Plain Brewery digs for Stump Trivia at 9 p.m. It’s for a 21+ crowd and it’s free. read

Joseph Clark is not spending his summer researching the American Civil Rights Movement in Mugar Memorial Library because his grandfather was one of the Sons of the Confederacy — not entirely...

Feeling playful?Do you have a “capacity for selective immaturity”? Do you enjoy pillow fights, squirt guns, and generally acting like a fool...

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The Founding Fathers separated church and state, creating a bedrock democratic principle. But did they expect their efforts to become fodder for quirky insights and one-liners? read more

Faces bloodied by police, fiery riots, and protestors thronging the streets; these are the images of Iranian unrest on countless blogs and social networking Web sites, snuck through the regime’s Internet clampdown following last week’s disputed presidential election. read

Longtime friends and rivals Jack Parker and Jerry York will soon be honored side by side for lifelong contributions to collegiate sports...

The Office of the Comptroller wants to save the University paper, resources, and money and to this end has announced that most BU employees and student workers paid via direct deposit will no longer receive a paper pay stub. The information on the stub will now be accessible only online. read more

The elevator ride makes your ears pop, a fitting start to a trip to the Skywalk. The Prudential Center’s 50th-story floor-to-ceiling windows overlook a Boston panorama: the view stretches as far as the beaches of Cape Cod on a clear day. read mo

The Red Sox are in Philly, the Lakers and the Magic have the night off. What you really want right now is to get out of your digs and try something totally different. How about dancing to an electronic band from Baltimore while cartoons are projected onto the side of a building...

We don’t usually think about what makes us eat what we eat, but creating appetizing images of food is a professional art, full of the secrets of the trade...

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Get your stretchy pants ready for Boston’s annual largest in the nation all-you-can-eat ice cream festival, from June 9 to 11. That’s right, it’s time for the Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl, the unofficial start of summer in New England...

America has a weight problem. But the nation’s expanding girth, with its associated risks of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, isn’t evenly distributed: the battle of the bulge is hitting African-American women particularly hard...

Last week, when 93-year-old Louis Vesprini accidentally drove his car through the front entrance of a Wal-Mart in Danvers, it was the fourth time in nine months that a Boston-area driver over the age of 80 had lost control of his vehicle and seriously injured a pedestrian...

Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi’s federal indictment June 2 on fraud and conspiracy charges marks the third consecutive time that the commonwealth’s speaker of the house has been indicted; the other two, Thomas M. Finneran and Charles F. Flaherty, were convicted...

The ways Boston University students reach into the community around us are an ongoing source of fascination — and good journalism...

What better way to celebrate spring’s height and summer’s impending arrival than by visiting one of the many farmers markets around the city? read

There’s the infamous Boston Strangler and an apparition that supposedly haunts our very own Shelton Hall, but those aren’t the only ghosts around Boston...

The outlook could hardly have seemed brighter for Brian Johnson and Brad Perriello as the two entrepreneurs left a meeting with potential investors from Lehman Brothers one afternoon last September...

Dark and chaotic is how Lisa Tornatore, facilities and events manager at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, describes the school’s Makechnie Study Center before this year’s renovation: long tables topped by aging computers where groups of collaborating students clashed with...

What do green creatures, hordes of people (many unshaven), free organic chips and beverages, and ’90s one-hit wonder bands have in common? They’re all a part of EarthFest 2009, Radio 92.9’s 16th annual concert and homage to the Earth and all things environmentally friendly...

You’ve always meant to go. You keep hearing about it. Your friends have all been. So with summer getting into swing, check out Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. And get this: tonight, and every Thursday night, it’s free...

President Barack Obama seized his first opportunity to reshape the U.S. Supreme Court this week, nominating Sonia Sotomayor to succeed retiring Justice David Souter. He made a shrewd choice, according to Jack Beermann, a School of Law professor. read more

For all the advances of modern medicine, today’s drug and vaccine delivery methods still have their drawbacks: hypodermic needles, medicated patches, and ultrasonic methods may offer a range of options, but all lack speed and precision. Plus, there’s another fact of life: needles can hurt...

It appears that Michael Holick, a School of Medicine professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics, has offered children around the world an argument against having to apply sunscreen. But what he really is doing is excellent science. read more

Many Boston legends have been born in the shadow of the Green Monster, from the (Reversed) Curse of the Bambino to Pedroia the Destoyah and Red Sox Nation. But being taken out to the ballpark doesn’t have to empty your wallet...

Boston University grew a little smaller for a few hours on Sunday, as the Class of 2009 gathered around Nickerson Field, awaiting the start of the University’s 136th Commencement. Sophomore-year roommates reunited. Freshman-year intramural teammates reminisced...

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