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Olympics takes deadly
turn for kin of US coach

China's rulers thought they had left nothing to chance. Declaring security a top priority for the Olympics, they had deployed 100,000 antiterrorist police officers and soldiers. They installed some 300,000 surveillance cameras around the city. They even ordered the removal of the city's vagrants, homeless, and mentally ill. (By Patricia Wen and Shira Springer, Boston Globe)

China concealing rundown stores behind walls

This should be a golden season at the Kaiqin Wu's "Heavenly Peak" motorcycle shop. With car use severely restricted as part of the governments' effort to limit pollution during the Olympics, sales of bikes - motorized or not - have been soaring in Beijing. But business has gone steeply downhill at Heavenly Peak. Blame it on the wall. (By Patricia Wen, Boston Globe)
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Hospitals try to calm doctors' outbursts

North Shore Medical Center is part of an emerging effort to crack down on what some call healthcare road rage. The push is inspired by a growing body of research suggesting that swearing, yelling, and throwing objects are not just rude and offensive to co-workers, but hurt patients by increasing the likelihood of medical errors. (By Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe)

On Vineyard, beach becomes a breach

The accident reports pile up in Charlie Blair's tiny, cluttered office on the docks of Edgartown harbor. Sailboats are hitting sailboats. Million-dollar yachts are smacking into other yachts, and that's especially troubling here on Martha's Vineyard, where the perfection of one's boat roughly equates to the size of one's bank account. (By Keith O'Brien, Boston Globe)

Home state racial issues test McCain

As he prepared to seek reelection in 1984, Representative John McCain made an unlikely appeal to identity politics, turning to a slogan that asserted the first-term congressman was "getting results for ALL Arizonans." McCain's campaign literature did not, however, mention the concerns of the state's small but well-organized African-American community. (By Sasha Issenberg, Boston Globe)
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