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Costs are keeping
patients from care

People with robust health insurance are putting off doctors’ appointments and skimping on prescriptions because they can’t afford the increasing costs of copayments and deductibles, according to managers of patient-assistance hot lines in Massachusetts. (By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff)

Missed opportunities

They feel like the forgotten ones: Football teams training on hazardous turf, soccer teams practicing on fields without goals, track teams running in school hallways for lack of access to training facilities. (By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff)

Pension a bounty shared

A Globe review found Essex County officials Timothy Bassett and Katherine O'Leary quietly approved each other's deals for hundreds of thousands of dollars in pension benefits. (By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff)

Theater fell to a medley of misfortune

The closing of North Shore Music Theatre has led to finger-pointing and recriminations. But a closer look at the theater's financial health in its tumultuous final years, which included a devastating 2005 fire and a staff revolt under executive producer Barry Ivan, reveals that myriad factors played into the collapse. (By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff)

Into the booming surf

Two years after a powerful storm opened a milewide breach along a beach, the currents south of Martha’s Vineyard have changed and given rise to swirling eddies and white-capped riptides. They have also unearthed the remnants of a bombing range the Navy operated here during World War II. (By David Abel, Globe Staff)

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