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In Saturday's Globe:

A Suffolk County jury yesterday found that two doctors at Children's Hospital Boston - one of them the hospital's former physician in chief - had caused the death of a 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy and voted to award his parents $15 million in damages.

More than 100 people in the state are bracing for the loss of a program sometimes called "a hospital without walls" because the state Department of Mental Health is cutting $10.3 million from its $644 million budget.

In the Sunday Globe:

Concrete barriers alongside highways do more than protect neighbors against unwanted sounds, according to research to be published next month in the journal Atmosphere Environment. They also keep pollution away, reducing it by more than 50 percent on the other side of the barrier.

Concerns about concussions in national sports are also filtering down to the high school level.

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