Today's Paper 05/09/2012 - The Boston Globe

The Nation

For the record

■ Correction: Because of an editing error, Minnie Minoso’s age was incorrect in the list of oldest position players in the Sunday baseball notes graphic in the April 8 sports section. Minoso was 54 in 1980.

North Carolina strengthens gay marriage prohibition

By Kasie Hunt and Tom Lobianco

North Carolinians voted to amend their state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman, effectively outlawing gay unions.

Wife, mother of Miss. kidnap-slaying suspect arrested

The net widened in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls as authorities charged his wife and mother in connection with the abduction.

The World

Kofi Annan gives bleak assessment of Syrian peace plan

By Rick Gladstone

Annan, the main architect of the Syria peace plan, asked combatants on both sides to put down their weapons and acknowledged that his effort could fail.

Militias try to storm Libyan official’s office

By Rami Al-Shaheibi

Libyan militias tried Tuesday to storm the prime minister’s office, triggering a gun battle with security forces that left one guard dead, government officials said.

China to reinvestigate claims of capsules made from powdered remains of babies

China will reinvestigate allegations that Chinese-made drug capsules containing powdered remains of dead babies are being smuggled into South Korea, state media reported Tuesday.

Editorial & Opinion

editorial

Al Qaeda’s latest bomb plot highlights the shape of future threats

Al Qaeda may be splintered, but it’s still capable of isolated — and sophisticated — attacks as demonstrated by the new kind of bomb it developed.

Jeff Jacoby

‘Never again’ is now in North Korea

By Jeff Jacoby

A recently published book on slave-labor prisons in North Korea is a reminder that man’s inhumanity to man has no limit.

Opinion | James Roosevelt Jr. and Robert L. Reynolds

How to fix Social Security

By James Roosevelt Jr. and Robert L. Reynolds

Social Security should be backed up by a robust private workplace savings system that all working Americans have access to.

Metro

Steve Wynn drops Foxborough casino proposal

By Mark Arsenault

The casino developer abandoned plans to build a Foxborough gambling resort, a decision that reshuffles the competition for the sole Greater Boston casino license.

Sudbury Marine found dead on Calif. military base

By Zachary T. Sampson and Travis Andersen

A US Marine from Sudbury was found dead on a military base near San Diego Monday morning, a spokesman for the First Marine Expeditionary Force said.

Vitamin Shoppe Inc.

Shares of Vitamin Shoppe closed at their highest price since the New Jersey-based company went public in October 2009.

Business

Outside investigator to look at SEC watchdog

By Steven Sloan

The SEC is planning to hire an outside investigator to probe complaints about the agency’s internal watchdog unit after its top official stepped down amid complaints about his work.

Vitamin Shoppe Inc.

Shares of Vitamin Shoppe closed at their highest price since the New Jersey-based company went public in October 2009.

Massachusetts fares well in factory jobs study

By Hiawatha Bray

Factory jobs pay well in Greater Boston, although the sector represents only 7.3 percent of the workforce, a study found.

Obituaries

For the record

Today's corrections for the obituary section.

Path-setting children’s author Maurice Sendak dies

Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German shepherd, Herman.

By Dan Wasserman

Mr. Sendak, who wrote and illustrated beloved and beguiling children’s books, most notably “Where the Wild Things Are,’’ died at 83, four days after suffering a stroke.