State falls short on affordable housing
Construction of affordable housing units has stalled across the state over the last five years, even as demand soars during a time of rapidly rising need.
Push on to stay step ahead of cancer
Doctors and researchers want to discover why cancers become resistant to so-called smart drugs, and to develop new therapies that can thwart the disease’s Houdini act.
Plan to untangle avenue divides Charlestown
Rutherford Avenue is ugly, crumbling, and must be rebuilt, but the decision on how much it should resemble its old self is roiling the community.
A design squad goes on a vital mission
A group of civilian designers of military gear and uniforms had a chance to give their work a reality check at Fort Devens.
Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
Health care? N.H. residents not buying it
In Ashland, a central New Hampshire working class town, health care is an afterthought for many as they sort through their choices in the upcoming GOP primary.
Time nearly up, deficit panel on brink of failure
The congressional deficit-cutting panel yesterday appeared to be on the verge of conceding defeat in its attack on the country’s deficit.
Adrian Walker
A chance squandered
Senator Kerry and the debt reduction committee - which could concede defeat as early as today - never had a chance of escaping the partisan war that led to its creation.
13 with ties to N.E. selected as Rhodes Scholars
Thirteen students with New England connections were selected as Rhodes Scholars, with four of the recipients from Harvard and four from Brown.
“The economy killed affordable housing just like the market-rate.”
Bob Engler, an affordable housing developer
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Reunion with friends ends in tragedy
On a trip reconnecting with friends, Nancy Barry, 30, of Salem, was killed in a U-Haul accident that also injured two others at the Harvard-Yale game on Saturday.
Business
Black Friday discounts, but no lines
New sites and mobile apps offer deals and bargain-hunting tips for shoppers looking to take advantage of Black Friday sales.
Politics
Political Notebook
GOP contenders to ramp up campaigning before Iowa
The race for the presidential nomination is deeply unsettled six weeks before Iowans start the state-by-state process of choosing a challenger for President Obama.
Nation & World
Energized protesters repel troops in Egypt
Egypt’s interim military rulers battled a reinvigorated protest movement calling for its ouster, as thousands of demonstrators forced troops to retreat from Tahrir Square for a second night in a row.
Sports
Patriots’ guard Waters has pull
Though he was signed by the Patriots just over a week before the first regular-season game of the season, Brian Waters’s transition has been seamless.
Arts
Music Review
Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera worthy of the night
Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera — a riff on the Orpheus myth set, as she put it, ‘‘in a post-apocalyptic Depression era’’ — worked just fine with or without the program notes.
Health and wellness
G force
Better living with technology
Frank Moss is head of the New Media Medicine group at the MIT Media Lab and author of ‘‘The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices.’’
Opinion
“Vast government resources are now being used to ensure that local pee-wee football leagues are not filled with undocumented Mexican children.”
Juliette Kayyem, on Alabama’s new immigration law
Ideas
The improvements coming to air travel amount to a long-awaited application of new thinking and new technology to a complex system that has been slow to accommodate change.
Leon Neyfakh, Ideas staff writer