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15 NASCAR fans injured in Daytona crash, reports say

Fans were hurt when debris, including a tire, flew into the stands during a crash at the Nationwide Series at Daytona International Speedway.

Kyle Larson (32) crashed into the catch fence at the end of the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Daytona International Speedway.

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Kyle Larson (32) crashed into the catch fence at the end of the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Daytona International Speedway.

Pieces of Larson's car flew through the air.

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Pieces of Larson's car flew through the air and into the stands,

An injured spectators were treated after debris flew into the stands.

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An injured spectators were treated after debris flew into the stands.

Rescue workers attended to the injured in the stands.

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Rescue workers attended to the injured in the stands.

Rescue workers stood next to a hole in the catch fence following the crash.

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Rescue workers stood next to a hole in the catch fence following the crash.

Rain, then snow will hit the region today into Sunday

About 4 to 6 inches of snow are in the forecast for communities north and west of Boston this weekend, with up to 2 inches expected in and south of Boston.

A person walked under police tape after a false report of a gunman on campus forced a lockdown of MIT.

Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax

Authorities are investigating the false report, which prompted a massive law enforcement response and forced the lockdown of the campus.

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A horse-drawn carriage stops on a street in the historic district of Charleston, S.C.

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Cities in the States

Charleston, S.C.: a 3-day getaway

A heavenly mix of historic gardens and homes, cuisine that keeps raising the bar, and neighborhoods buoyed by new bars and boutiques makes a visit to the Holy City worthwhile.

Antonella Michelena, a television reporter from Mexico, silhouetted as she reported from the red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

A guide to the Oscars

Looking for a last-minute screening or a crib sheet for your Academy Awards pool? Read the Globe’s review of the film, and view any related videos.

Clint Eastwood.

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Do You Know Oscar?

Globe film critic Ty Burr’s Hollywood trivia quiz.

Sunday preview | Travel

Lights, cameras, the world: movies that take us places

Head to New York or Chicago, or to Italy, France, Kenya, and beyond in these films that take us away.

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Boston Red Sox players stretched in the outfield before the start of their exhibition season opener at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers.

Photos of the week: Feb. 22, 2013
“I’m terrified of what’s going to happen,” said Jennifer Webb, whose family may lose coverage soon.

44,000 to lose Medicaid coverage in Maine

Opinion

Hurling itself off successive cliffs, Congress shows dysfunction
Cardinal O’Malley led a Mass on Friday to celebrate Benedict XVI’s reign.

Cardinal O’Malley ready for conclave to choose the next pope
Antonella Michelena, a television reporter from Mexico, silhouetted as she reported from the red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

A guide to the Oscars
Dan Brady, area director and investigator for the Doe Network, a Web-based group of amateur sleuths who try to identify unidentified bodies by checking databases for identifying marks and scouring newspaper accounts of missing persons.

Web sleuths help solve cold cases
Having recovered from elbow surgery, Junichi Tazawa “opened a lot of eyes” last year, according to GM Ben Cherington.

Junichi Tazawa made major upgrade for Red Sox
One of the 'Nun days' at Fenway park in the mid 1960s.

Sunday Preview | Ideas

What American nuns built
Air Force Major Scott Snider prepared for a flying exercise.

Plymouth native emulates enemy in Air Force war games
“Blood Play” is set in Skokie, Ill., in the 1950s with deliberately cartoonish characters.

STAGE REVIEW

‘Blood Play’ has mordant fun but misses mark
Patrick Burke’s group You Can Play recruits athletes to fight gay bashing.

Group hopes to take homophobia out of sports
Vince DiMaggio had to live with, “I’m not Joe,’’ just as Billy Bulger has to live with, “I’m not Whitey.” Stephen Drew comes to Fenway Park this year with the added burden of reminding us, “I’m not J.D.’’

Dan Shaughnessy

How much like J.D. is Stephen Drew?

Sports

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Red Sox notebook

David Ortiz said he had a “small tear” in his Achilles’ last summer that has healed, and a recent MRI showed no difference from the tendon in his left foot.

David Ortiz making strides for Red Sox

Ortiz said he had a “small tear” in his Achilles’ last summer that has healed, and a recent MRI showed no difference from the tendon in his left foot.

Metro

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When South Station opened, it covered Atlantic Avenue to the Fort Point Channel. Much has changed.

An $850 million plan to return South Station to bygone glory

Governor Deval Patrick is pushing for an expansion project as one of the major components of his sweeping transportation plan.

Columnists

Lawrence Harmon

For Boston’s students, assignment plans are a lost opportunity

RENÉE LOTH

Boston prepares for future superstorms

SCOT LEHIGH

Ed Markey: A campaign snapshot

Kevin Cullen

Changes in the air for Globe
What remains to be seen is whether the expanded programs Obama and Patrick are proposing will work or merely reinforce the deficiencies and inequities that exist between school districts.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Preschool alters lives — or adds to status quo

joan wickersham

Navigating the grammatical thicket
Vince DiMaggio had to live with, “I’m not Joe,’’ just as Billy Bulger has to live with, “I’m not Whitey.” Stephen Drew comes to Fenway Park this year with the added burden of reminding us, “I’m not J.D.’’

Dan Shaughnessy

How much like J.D. is Stephen Drew?
After his team won just 69 games in 2012, GM Ben Cherington is happy to have another opportunity.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox GM Ben Cherington merits blame too
Aqib Talib (right) and Alfonzo Dennard helped improve the Patriots’ secondary when they came on in the second half of last season.

Christopher L. Gasper

Now the Patriots must tag Aqib Talib
The FreedomPop (left) and Karma.

Tech Lab

Cheap access to the Internet is in the air

opinion | farah stockman

Land rushes — and the people left behind
Would Boston consider hosting the Olympic rings, which are headed to Sochi, Russia, next year?

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Should Boston try to host the Olympics?

Nation & World

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Air Force Major Scott Snider prepared for a flying exercise.

Plymouth native emulates enemy in Air Force war games

Scott Snider, an Air Force pilot plays the enemy target, replicating what a foe might do.

Politics

Small-airport control towers would be shut if sequestration cuts go into effect, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

White House highlights travel disruptions

The White House warned of potentially severe disruptions in air travel if spending cuts take effect in less than a week.

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Mass Tank of Middleborough used its metal fabrication expertise to help start-ups innovate materials and components.

Industrial landscape has holes, MIT says

A new report urgently recommends that the nation rebuild its “industrial ecosystem” of manufacturers, suppliers, research, and skilled labor.

Arts

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Stage Review

Phil Tayler and Daniel Berger-Jones play all 15 characters in “Stones in His Pockets.”

Lyric Stage cuts to the heart of ‘Stones in His Pockets’

In this two-actor, 15-character production directed by Courtney O’Connor at the Lyric Stage Company, there’s plenty to think about as well as laugh at.

Magazine

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A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
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Change on the Mystic
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South End remodel: Rear window
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

New England traditional, with a twist

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“By the end of the century, with the harbor’s predicted sea level 5 feet above the current average, the city would experience what we now consider a 100-year coastal flood twice a day, every day.”

Renée Loth  

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Ideas

“In 1925, Time Magazine reported on a doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich., who believed the average man’s hands were ‘contaminated with...secretions,’ and that people who insisted on shaking hands anyway were ‘purveyors of death.’ ”

Leon Neyfakh, on the risks of handshakes