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As flu spreads, Boston declares health emergency

Health care centers across Boston will be offering free vaccines after Mayor Menino declared a public health emergency.

AIG won’t join lawsuit against US over 2008 bailout

Facing a certain backlash from Washington, the insurer decided not to join a $25 billion lawsuit claiming the terms of the bailout were too onerous.

Court upholds Mass. abortion clinic buffer law

A federal appeals court upheld a protestor buffer zone law for abortion clinics, saying the regulation protects patients’ rights while still allowing free expression.

Researchers progress on hearing restoration research

Boston researchers have for the first time used a drug to regenerate hair cells that sense sound in the ears of adult mice.

Items such as sawhorses are commonly used by shovelers in Boston to save parking spaces, but many wait days to remove those objects.

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Scot Lehigh

Winter etiquette on Boston’s streets

Just in case it ever snows again, let’s review our rules for neighborly winter living in the city.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/baseballhof-horiz--90x90.jpg No new players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa were not chosen as voters struggled with how to treat newly eligible players from the steroids era.

Former US congressman Patrick Kennedy.

Patrick Kennedy criticized for trying to keep marijuana illegal

The former Rhode Island congressman, a recovering addict, has been accused by advocates of wanting to force all pot smokers into treatment.

Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua

Coakley sues Lantigua over campaign finances

Attorney General Martha Coakley sued Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua for failing to file a campaign finance report and pay state fines.

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See the film and participate in a talk with cast members, moderated by Boston Globe movie editor Janice Page.

Globe exclusives

Former state lab chemist Annie Dookhan appeared at Middlesex Superior Court with her attorney, Nick Gordon, on Wednesday.

Husband warned that state chemist was liar
Curt Schilling tipped his cap to the Fenway crowd on Oct. 25, 2007, after leaving Game 2 of the World Series.

Dan Shaughnessy

How I handled the ‘poison’ Hall of Fame ballot
Patricia Cornwell says her financial management firm is guilty of negligence.

Mystery novelist accuses manager of betrayal
After clearing hurdles, local company Lil Foodie is set to deliver fresh organic meals to babies.

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Birth of a food business
Rep. Edward Markey’s campaign account has helped him hold his House seat for 37 years, scaring off potential challengers.

Media giants big donors to Markey

2012 was warmest on record for US
In September, President Obama ordered China’s Ralls Corp., led by Wu Jialiang (left), to drop interest in wind farm projects near a Navy base. But Wanxiang America president Pin Ni (right) appears confident that his company will get the OK to buy A123 Systems.

A123 Systems deal hangs on federal panel
At BoMA Restaurant + Bar in the South End, kale, mesclun greens, and shaved fennel salad.

dining out

At BoMA, a surprise on your plate
A skullcap from MC10 of Cambridge, shown by the Tennessee Titans’ Matt Hasselbeck, contains head-trauma sensors to protect athletes.

At CES, staying healthy the high-tech way
Quicksand performing at the Paradise on Monday.

Music Review

Quicksand opt for intensity over nostalgia
Melanie Steier does not allow her son, Harrison, to play violent games.

Violent video games put parental judgment to the test
President Obama’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel, and Senator John Kerry, nominee for secretary of state, share a history of service in Vietnam.

In Hagel and Kerry, a wariness of war

Sports

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Tom Brady and the Patriots returned to practice on Tuesday.

Tom Brady facing racquets again in practice

The Patriots have brought out the brooms and racquets at practice again to help Brady prepare for the Texans’ pass-rushing prowess.

Metro

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Commuters waited on the platform for the Red Line at the MGH MBTA station in Boston earlier this month.

MBTA fare evasion citations are up nearly 40 percent

The MBTA Transit Police have been cracking down on fare evaders, with with 4,753 citations issued in 2012

Columnists

Curt Schilling tipped his cap to the Fenway crowd on Oct. 25, 2007, after leaving Game 2 of the World Series.

Dan Shaughnessy

How I handled the ‘poison’ Hall of Fame ballot

Derrick Z. Jackson

All of earth now a mercury hotspot
What Nick Saban, who now has won four national titles, three in Tuscaloosa, has built at Alabama is a program par excellence.

Christopher L. Gasper

NFL the only challenge unmet by Nick Saban
Items such as sawhorses are commonly used by shovelers in Boston to save parking spaces, but many wait days to remove those objects.

Scot Lehigh

Winter etiquette on Boston’s streets

JEFF JACOBY

‘Pledge’ didn’t make Warren-Brown race less nasty

Adrian Walker

Mayor Menino at a crossroads
Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital have been treating Almas (foreground) and Abdulallah Alhazmi for rare conditions.

farah stockman

Medical promised land
Anonymous, whose members often wear Guy Fawkes masks, has taken on the Steubenville, Ohio, rape controversy.

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

Internet shifts rape stigma to perpetrators
Nick Saban hoisted the BCS trophy for the third time in four years.

Christopher L. Gasper

Alabama proves SEC’s dominance

opinion | JAMES CARROLL

Football: America’s dangerous game
Russian President Vladimir Putin banned adoption of Russian children by Americans.

Opinion | JULIETTE KAYYEM

The real plight of the orphan-hostages

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Fiscal cliff battle ends with a whimper

Nation & World

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Washington Jan. 9, 2013.

Afghan president meets senators in Washington

Hamid Karzai declined to answer a question about what he thinks should be the size of the US troop presence in Afghanistan.

Politics

Jack Lew, President Obama's chief of staff, is expected to be nominated as the next Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy Geithner.

Obama expected to pick Jack Lew as Treasury secretary

Lew, the White House chief of staff who has years of budget experience, would replace Timothy Geithner.

Business

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Governor Patrick’s proposed rate freeze could save employers $500 million this year.

Mass. employers’ jobless costs may stand

Governor Patrick’s proposal would save employers about $500 million this year.

Arts

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Book Review

Author Massimo Montanari is a professor of food history at the University of Bologna.

‘Let the Meatballs Rest’ by Massimo Montanari

You may be forgiven for thinking our food obsession is some kind of recent phenomenon.

Food & dining

The 1HandR dispenses one paper towel at a time and requires only one hand.

He invented the perfect paper towel dispenser

Build a better paper towel dispenser, and the world will beat a path to your door. That, at any rate, is the hope of John Erdman.

Magazine

The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

The cover for the December 16 2012 issue

Best of the New: Diversions
The cover for the December 9 2012 issue

The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?

Opinion

“It’s the responsibility of homeowners or building managers to ensure that sidewalks are shoveled after it snows, and most do a pretty good job.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Researchers say our disconnectedness from the older version of us is more than a metaphor for the difficulty of imagining the future—it’s a surprisingly powerful subconscious influence on our behavior.”

Leon Neyfakh on the phsychology of keeping resolutions. 

“You’re not counting on [Rep. Ed Markey] — if you’re a big industry group — to vote for you, but you want him to hear what you’ll have to say.”

Marian Currinder,  a senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown