For the manic modern craving a break from the 21st century…
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For the farm-to-table aficionado…
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*Paris Wallace claims that his Boston-based startup Ovuline has helped thousands of women conceive with the help of its fertility app. And I want to be next.
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Armed with a chickpea fritter and mountains of data, Ayr Muir, of Cambridge’s Clover Food Lab, is just a few thousand restaurants short of saving the world.
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Can chemical castration help pedophiles control their desires?
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We shine a light on Boston’s new power class: the visionaries, idealists, and thinkers among us whose insights are transforming the way we live, work, learn, and play.
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After his son was arrested for downloading files at MIT, Bob Swartz did everything in his power to save him. He couldn’t. Now he wants the institute to own up to its part in Aaron’s death.
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We revisit our interview with the late actor from our oral history of Good Will Hunting, and hear the voice of a man who was full of life.
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The superintendent of two of Boston’s national parks is shaping the way we think about the city’s history.
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She’s created the country’s first leadership initiative to get young Asian-American women into politics right here in Boston.
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City Hall’s new chief information officer is the tech-savvy guru who ran the Web component of Obama’s campaigns.
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She’s changing how we provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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How a Canadian-born architect plans to expand tech innovation in the city.
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Nearly 7 million young Americans lack the skills or education to get a job that will pull them out of poverty. But with the formation of the nonprofit Year Up, Gerald Chertavian has created a solution that’s steering thousands of low-income young adults into Fortune 500 companies. What comes next may change your ideas about higher education.
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Fifteen years after the release of the movie that made them stars, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck—along with the rest of the cast and crew—reflect in their own words on how a long-shot film by two unknowns became one of Hollywood's biggest success stories.
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In Boston’s most dangerous neighborhoods, criminals routinely use women to traffic and hide illegal guns. Can Operation Lipstick, a new education campaign, make a difference?
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Local firm Third Rock Ventures has an idea that might make it easier to get groundbreaking therapies to patients—and revive the biotech industry here in Boston.
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It’s the headquarters for the Coast Guard’s entire First District. It’s where many victims of sexual assault in the service get sent. And it’s where, all too often, their military careers then come to an end.
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After defining ourselves for generations by possessions, a dramatic cultural shift is under way. In the wake of a collapsed economy, what matters to a growing number of Americans is not so much ownership as access. That's made Boston ground zero for a powerful new force: The sharing economy.
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Why does Massachusetts—perhaps the most progressive state of them all—have one of the country's biggest wage disparities between men and women?
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