I wrote in Sunday's Globe about nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who played a very private but critical role in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing: They cared for gravely wounded suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a heavily-guarded ICU, nursing him back to health. E-mails from readers across the country, commending and thanking them, have been pouring in.

After much debate last week over whether sex symbol Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy would help other women with mastectomies feel sexier, Victoria's Secret announced Monday that it wasn't going to contribute to the effort by designing a bra for women who had mastectomies and opted not to have breast reconstruction.