Boston contest to combat rising sea levels

Boston is launching an international design competition to come up with solutions to combat rising sea levels after narrowly averting catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Sandy two years ago and two more recent powerful storms. Mayor Martin J. Walsh...

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Insurers unsure on transgender care

Four months after the state Division of Insurance put health plans on notice that denying medically necessary treatment to transgender people is prohibited sex discrimination, insurers are still grappling with what constitutes medical necessity, and...

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The Ticker

Federal Reserve ends bond-buying program The Federal Reserve cited an improving economy yesterday as it ended its landmark bond-buying program and pointed to gains in the job market — a key condition for an eventual interest rate hike. The Fed did...

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MassChallenge gives out $1.75M

Four companies were selected as "Diamond" winners and awarded $100,000 each as MassChallenge honored its latest batch of promising startups last night. Two companies in the social impact category — Catie's Closet, which provides clothing to students...

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Asia stocks meander after Fed ends stimulus

HONG KONG — Asian stock markets meandered Thursday while the dollar strengthened against other currencies after the Federal Reserve said it will end its stimulus program, as many had expected. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.5...

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Wal-Mart tests matching prices with online rivals

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is considering matching online prices from competitors like Amazon.com, raising the stakes for the holiday shopping season. The world's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, has matched prices of local store...

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Apple CEO publicly acknowledges that he's gay

NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook's declaration that he's "proud to be gay" wasn't exactly news in Silicon Valley, where his sexual orientation was no secret. But advocates say that given Apple's immense reach and visibility, his coming-out could help change...

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Arthur T. Demoulas rings up praise 
at store’s grand opening

Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was greeted by selfie and autograph requests yesterday, as well as hugs, kisses and congratulations from adoring customers as he marked the formal opening of the grocery chain's new Revere store more than a year after...

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Business leaders also saw softer side of Tom Menino

Mayor Thomas M. Menino was known as a hard charger in the business community, a force of nature who, among many other things, transformed South Boston's waterfront into the thriving Innovation District. But Herb Chambers remembers the city's longest-serving...

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JP renovation adds modern onto classic

What do you do when you want to preserve a classic home's interior while dividing it into two large residences? This was the design dilemma facing Dorchester-­based bou­tique developer WonderGroup, when it bought a classic 1898 Colonial Revival home...

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