In 1974, a young woman’s mutilated body was found in the dunes in Provincetown. It was a terrible, grisly crime; her hands were missing and her head was nearly severed.

The mysterious case baffled investigators for nearly 50 years. trib.al/hAekAVN It was one of the oldest cold cases in Mass. She was nicknamed “The Lady of the Dunes” because no one knew her real name— until today. She is Ruth Marie Terry. And here is a photo that the FBI released of her. trib.al/OL9zEdH

Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households produced in 2021, just 2.4 million tons (5 percent) were recycled, new research shows.

The findings show that plastic recycling is a “myth,” says the analysis by environmental nonprofit @greenpeaceusa. trib.al/hLhzaC5 Plastic, which is made from fossil fuels, is notoriously difficult to recycle.

A major reason: There are thousands of varieties of the material, each with its own chemical makeup, that require meticulous sorting to be processed. trib.al/hLhzaC5

There are 14 luxury “survival” condos in an undisclosed location in Kansas, and they are available now to cash buyers only.

The price? $2.4 million for a full-floor unit; $1.3 million for a half floor, plus condo fees from $2,625 to $5,250 monthly. trib.al/64GeXN0 Built between 2010 and 2013, the condos generated interest from the start. By 2020, it finally got a test run, when families showed up from across the country and hunkered down, most for several weeks, when the pandemic struck. trib.al/64GeXN0

Diana Kipyokei, the women’s winner of the 2021 Boston Marathon, was provisionally suspended by @aiu_athletics after an investigation found she violated the world’s track and field doping policies with a sample taken on Oct. 11, 2021 — the date of her win. trib.al/R1Rjiqp Kipyokei’s first-place finish in the race will be disqualified if she fails to prove herself innocent in the appeals process, @BAA said on Friday. trib.al/R1Rjiqp

Can’t poop while traveling? Advice columnist Meredith Goldstein gets it.

She reached out to Alain Veilleux, a researcher at Université Laval who specializes in metabolism and intestinal microbiota, to explain what’s happening — and not happening. trib.al/EPwtjd6 🧻 We’re dehydrated.

“When we take a plane, the air is very dry ... and sometimes we drink less,” Veilleux said. trib.al/EPwtjd6

Boston city officials are hoping to revamp the country’s oldest public park over the next decade.

A grand reimagining calls for both ambitious new projects and more subtle improvements, with a goal of making the Boston Common more inviting and navigable. trib.al/1o00Q6F A few of the proposed changes:
° Triple the size of the playground.
° Revamp the Frog Pond to include multiple fountains.
° Add a soccer pitch to the athletic fields.
° Install more restrooms.
° Offer a place to drink a glass of wine. trib.al/1o00Q6F

After dozens of migrants arrived unannounced last month on Martha’s Vineyard, immigration lawyers from Massachusetts raced to the scene to help. trib.al/g1C0xGH Immigration lawyer Rachel M. Self drove straight to the island from a citizenship hearing in Lawrence, talking strategy with other lawyers over Zoom on the way.

Once there, she spent nearly eight hours scanning immigration documents using a cell phone, laptop, and Wi-Fi hotspot.

“I just wish I could stay longer,” Jack Thomas wrote.

Read his essay here: trib.al/JxotbeB

It’s hard to do it justice in only a few tweets, but below is a selection of some of the most profound ideas he shared. “As the saying goes, fate has dealt me one from the bottom of the deck, and I am now condemned to confront the question that has plagued me for years: How does a person spend what he knows are his final months of life?” trib.al/JxotbeB

It’s hard to learn of problems in a physician’s past, but the @GlobeSpotlight Team’s recent series on a New Hampshire surgeon's troubling malpractice settlement record includes a national database to help.

Here's how to find out if your doctor is safe.🧵
trib.al/ypQFzqs The team’s work included an interactive national database to help guide the public to helpful information about their physician.

But how much information that is available depends heavily on the state you live in, and what data its medical board makes public.

As sixth graders, some students thought their teacher at Davisville Middle School was a creep. They saw him leering at girls, singling them out with pet nicknames, encouraging them to dance. They saw him treating boys with contempt, and sometimes cruelty. trib.al/luoyPqs The teacher, who was also a coach and involved with extracurricular activities, told the students that he’d weathered parents’ complaints for nearly 30 years, and there was nothing anyone could do to him. trib.al/luoyPqs

In 2009, 57-year-old Bill Belichick stated: “I won’t be like Marv Levy and coaching in my 70s, I know that.”

Belichick is now 70 and readying for his 48th season in the NFL, his 28th as a head coach.
trib.al/TDi0mub “I wish I hadn’t said that,” Belichick told @Dan_Shaughnessy.

“I was probably thinking of what I would feel like. Now, there’s what I actually feel like, and those are two different things. That was not one of my better statements.”

The White House on Wednesday debuted a much-anticipated plan to forgive a sliver of student loan debt carried by over 40 million Americans.

Here are six charts that sum up the impact of the announcement — and who it may help the most. 📊
trib.al/zGK6dTm Let’s begin with a state-by-state look.

In Massachusetts, which is among the most highly-educated states, borrowers owe a median balance of $18,400, compared to $19,561 in Connecticut, $17,014 in Rhode Island, $17,648 in New Hampshire, $18,549 in Vermont, and $17,564 in Maine.

People come from all over to see the hues of autumn in New England, with the season bringing in billions of dollars in tourism revenue.

But it’s been a particularly dry summer. Here's what the drought conditions could mean for the annual burst of color. trib.al/UYmdAAn Massachusetts — and most of the rest of New England — is experiencing drought conditions.

Boston has had less than an inch of rain within the last month, and nearly 40 percent of Massachusetts was under extreme drought conditions last week. trib.al/UYmdAAn

In an Instagram photo that multimillionaire Kylie Jenner posted from an airport runway, she and her boyfriend, rapper Travis Scott, are flanked by two shiny private jets.

The caption read: “you wanna take mine or yours?” trib.al/LY9R3in Immediately, the comments under Jenner’s post lit up like a wildfire.

The anger ramped up when many saw that Jenner took a private flight July 12 from Camarillo to Van Nuys, Calif. that lasted only 17 minutes.

.@bjnovak isn’t who you think he is. Newton-raised, Harvard educated, “Office”-famous. Yeah, he’s all that, but like his sense of humor — and his feature directorial debut, “Vengeance” — he’s also hard to classify. trib.al/WJ4Um6M Novak credits his time on @harvardlampoon for helping hone his comic chops. But just the mention of @Harvard makes @bjnovak wince. “I don’t like talking about it,” the actor told the Globe’s @MarkAShanahan. “It’s the worst thing to have on a comedy resume.”

There are three levels of heat-related illnesses: heat cramps, the mildest; heat exhaustion, which is serious; and heat stroke, which is life-threatening and can cause brain damage or death. trib.al/pq0BZzs It doesn’t take much to prevent heat related illnesses — just stay hydrated and take breaks in the shade or indoors.

But people often don’t do this because they don’t recognize the warning signs.

Mysterious white patches first appeared on Adriana Birleanu’s skin when she was 16.

Mortified, she shied away from dating for years, and tried to hide her hands at work when a manager said they were scaring customers. bostonglobe.com/2022/07/19/met… Three decades and several failed treatment attempts later, Birleanu discovered a Tufts Medical Center study testing a new cream to treat vitiligo and was first to sign up.

Based on the results, the FDA has green-lighted the medication, ruxolitinib. bostonglobe.com/2022/07/19/met…

Don Seiffert and Laura Justice, of Salem, recently returned from a trip to Ireland to discover, much to their surprise, they had caught COVID-19 — again.

Experts, however, aren’t surprised by stories like theirs — at least not anymore. trib.al/bfIusR6 After the couple contracted COVID in May, they figured they’d be protected from the virus on vacation in July, and traveled without masks into crowded castles and packed pubs.

“We felt pretty safe,” said Justice, 52. “We were wrong.” trib.al/bfIusR6

Astronomers have detected an unusual radio signal from a far-off galaxy, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials. ✨

The signal is a fast radio burst, an intensely strong burst of radio waves, MIT said in a statement. trib.al/q3fEDEY Usually, the mysterious signals last for a few milliseconds at most.

But this one lasted up to three seconds and included bursts of radio waves every 0.2 seconds, in a clear periodic pattern. trib.al/q3fEDEY

Studies have found that women are more likely than men to take on service-oriented tasks, which usually come with little benefit to their career.

The disparity is even more pronounced for women of color. trib.al/Bte3f0m New academic research details why women do “non-promotable work,” and the answer is straightforward:

Because they’re expected to. trib.al/Bte3f0m

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital say they have found the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein circulating in the blood of long COVID patients up to 12 months after they were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Here's what we know of their #LongCovid study findings. trib.al/RimG5hN 🦠 The researchers said the findings suggest that the spike protein was a potential biomarker that could be helpful in diagnosing and treating long COVID patients. trib.al/RimG5hN