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Bigger, bolder plan for Herald site

Elkus Manfredi Architects

National Development yesterday launched a new plan to replace the former South End headquarters of the Boston Herald with a mixed-use project.

New Yorkers see giant chance to twist knife

As Sunday’s Super Bowl rematch approaches, fans here are predicting more Mass. misery at the hands of the New York Giants.

Mourners celebrate former mayor’s life, energy

Boston bade farewell yesterday to Kevin Hagan White in a historic funeral that celebrated the “incandescent energy’’ of a singular man and marked the end of an era.

A happy homecoming in North Reading

The town’s residents poured out of buildings yesterday and lined Park Street to welcome Marine Ben Hodgkins back home.

Super PACs fuel GOP attack ads

The arrival of the super PACS has resulted in a profound change in the nominating process, as candidates disclaim responsibility for the super PACS’ negative advertising.

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Skilled hands of a lost husband hold out hope for artist

Four months after receiving a double forearm and hand transplant, Richard Mangino is playing piano already and looks forward to painting.

Facebook to go public, files for $5 billion IPO

The massive social network, founded eight years ago in a Harvard University dorm room, is poised to be the biggest technology company debut since Google went public in 2004.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talks | Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

Oscar Talk

Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

Ken Oringer’s flagship restaurant Clio gets a makeover

Wilfork enjoys taking the lead

Want to learn about wine? Invite a sommelier to your home

Celtics 100, Raptors 64

Celtics rout Raptors

Waning hope, a 6-organ transplant, life anew

Philips adds wind turbine in Fall River

The Super Healthy Bowl

Tom Brady at home at Media Day

Galleries

Showcasing the work of an outsider artist

FRAME BY FRAME

Sweet on Sweerts’s ‘Boy With a Hat’

VIDEO

Media day madness at the Super Bowl

Dining Out

Sweet Cheeks hits a home run, Wahlburgers is destination for Wahlberg fans

Columnists

TECH LAB

Smartphone apps for smart people

Larry Bird said has tickets to Sunday’s Super Bowl, but isn’t sure if he will attend.

Dan Shaughnessy

Larry Bird is rooting for the Patriots

Army Spec. Theresa Lynn Flannery runs for cover as the Spanish base comes under attack outside Kufa, Iraq, near Najaf, in this April 4 2004, file photo. Along with a Bronze Star with a

JULIETTE KAYYEM

War’s glass ceiling

JOAN VENNOCHI

Catholic Church’s unfair attack against Obama

Scot Lehigh

GOP fight is a long way from being over

Jeff Jacoby

Right-to-work laws stand for choice

Former mayor of Boston Kevin White, poses with his statue located at Faneuil Hall Market area. **Photo taken 2008 Globe photo Bill Brett *** More caption info to follow.

Lawrence Harmon

The unflinching Kevin White

Zak DeOssie is heading into his second Super Bowl for the Giants.

bob ryan

Zak, Steve DeOssie connected by Super Bowl

Rob Gronkowski slapped five with a reporter from his perch at Media Day yesterday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Rob Gronkowski talks everything but his ankle

Brian McGrory

White’s love for city left room for his dog

Joanna Weiss

On PBS, downward mobility in period garb

Kevin Cullen

Super Bowl an ad for UMass

Metro

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Group swoops in to help 9 dolphins

An animal welfare group on Cape Cod saved nine dolphins yesterday that were in danger of stranding themselves in Brewster.

Nation & World

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Syrian troops open a new front against rebels

Heavy gunfire and shelling rattled towns in a mountain valley outside Damascus yesterday, as Syrian troops opened a new front in their campaign to crush rebels.

Politics

Outspoken N.J. governor apologizes for civil rights remarks

While brash comments have helped make Chris Christie a national political figure, his remarks about the civil-rights movement in the 1960s angered supporters.

Business

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UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester

UMass health system to cut jobs, sell units

UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest employer in Central Mass., told its employees yesterday that it will shed 700 to 900 jobs, about 6 percent of its workforce.

Sports

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Giants receiver Hakeem Nicks may be a handful for Patriots

Quarterback Eli Manning has no problem finding Nicks, who was targeted 133 times this season and dropped just seven balls.

Style

G COVER

Internet flash sales spawn a new breed of addicted shopper

Flash-sale shopping sites are a dangerous temptation for some, and an annoyance for others.

Arts

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BOOK REVIEW

02book

‘The Accordion Family’ by Katherine S. Newman

The book examines the trend of adult children returning home across many cultures.

Magazine

The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Jan 29, 2012

Reversing a restaurant curse

The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Jan 22, 2012

The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline

The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Jan 15, 2012

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution

The cover for the January 8 2012 issue

Jan 8, 2012

The spirit of giving?

Opinion

Ideas