Some decide against getting a flu shot

Even with a public health emergency and a threat of infection so severe that hospitals are restricting visitors, many Bostonians think they know better.

State’s gaming table is just about set

As the state’s fledgling gambling ­industry approaches its first major milestone Tuesday, it is possible that each casino license will have at least two bidders.

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For the past month, Brown has been trying to install his campaign’s deputy finance ­director as leader of the state Republican Party.

An old photo album found at a Maine yard sale yielded what is believed to be the first baseball card ever printed, and it is expected to fetch six figures at auction.

Saco River Auction Co.

First baseball card ever to be auctioned

A photo of the 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics amateur club, found at a yard sale in Maine, could net upwards of $100,000 at an auction.

Jackie Bradley in 2012 was named the Red Sox’ minor league defensive player of the year.

Sox prospect Bradley could play big role

Minor league standout Jackie Bradley could be the team’s next center fielder if Jacoby Ellsbury hits the free agent market.

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Charles Underhill, 73, has been a season ticket holder since 1966 and says he has only missed one regular-season home game.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Cultural institutions need to pay up

Boston’s leading arts and cultural institutions elevate spirits, but they lack appreciation for the high cost of providing police, fire, and road services to their patrons and employees

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A giant tank in the North End collapsed and sent a wave of molasses through the streets of Boston, killing 21 people.

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Obama to hasten Afghan transfer

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Hard facts vs. big truths
Tent cities have been established in and near Port-au-Prince for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Book Review

‘The Big Truck That Went By’ by Jonathan M. Katz

INTERACTIVE TIMELINE

Patriots’ playoff success in the Belichick era
Architecture writer Ada Louise Huxtable with New York Times managing editor A.M. Rosenthal after she won her Pulitzer Prize in 1970.

Appreciation

Ada Louise Huxtable’s New England
A chair on the ice provided a convenient place for Laurie Hawkins of Rockport to change out of his skates at Gloucester’s Niles Pond.

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Globe photos of the week, Jan. 11, 2013
Officials expect 600,000 to 800,000 people to attend President Obama’s Jan. 21 inauguration ceremony.

Inaugural fund-raising limits lifted
fThe Framingham MBTA commuter rail stop.

MBTA may halt $190m order for rail cars

Sports Media

Ted Johnson making himself heard
Arian Foster and the Patriots will be back in Foxborough on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

No offense, but the Texans simply can’t win

INTERACTIVE DATABASE

Patriots during the Bill Belichick era
Teagle F. Bougere in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of “Invisible Man.”

Theater Review

A searing ‘Invisible Man’

Sports

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Celtics 103, Rockets 91

Jeremy Lin of the Rockets can’t turn the corner on the Celtics’ Jared Sullinger.

Celtics stifle Rockets for fifth straight win

Jared Sullinger had 14 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, and the Celtics’ starters had enough energy to withstand a furious fourth-quarter run.

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Kathleen Winkworth administered a flu vaccine at Borgess Health and Fitness Center flu clinic Friday in Michigan.

2 more flu deaths logged in Boston

Two more people have died in Boston after contracting the flu — including for the first time this season, a child — bringing the total to six.

Columnists

LAWRENCE HARMON

Cultural institutions need to pay up

SCOT LEHIGH

Gun safety: Put a price on it

Joan Wickersham

Hillary Clinton’s cookies
Dick Gephardt’s 1979 “Gephardt rule” enabled the House to raise the debt ceiling without a vote on it.

Joshua Green

How the House wrecked the ceiling

Kevin Cullen

A list far too long
Arian Foster and the Patriots will be back in Foxborough on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

No offense, but the Texans simply can’t win
Shell’s runaway Arctic drilling vessel, Kulluk, sits grounded 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska, last week.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Shell’s Arctic troubles only buy time

Edward L. Glaeser

The urban innovation model

Dan Shaughnessy

Good reason no one elected to Hall of Fame
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are appliances that can communicate with each other, such as this LG refrigerator or ADT’s Pulse, which offers smart TV controls.

Consumer Electronics Show

Smart appliances help run your household

Yvonne Abraham

Taking Mayor William ­Lantigua out with the trash

Joan Vennochi

Rail company has inside track at T

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Parents and students gathered outside Taft Union High School in California after the student shooting Thursday.

Popular teacher lauded for calming shooter

A teacher’s conversation with the 16-year-old shooter allowed 28 students to escape.

Politics

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Jay Rockefeller’s popularity has been threatened in West Virginia.

Senator Jay Rockefeller to retire

Rockefeller, who came to West Virginia from one of the world’s richest families, will not seek a sixth term.

Business

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Golden Creme Cakes, the Market Basket version of Hostess Twinkies.

Twinkie clones filling a need for sweets fans

Market Basket has been filling the Hostess void with private-label versions of iconic snack cakes.

Arts

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Paul Mason teaching some youngsters at Wachusett Mountain, which takes pride in being classified as a “feeder hill,” a ski area where “first-timers” can hone their skills.

Ten great places to learn to ski

January is “Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month.” These 10 New England spots each have their own philosophy and teaching method.

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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. 

“[A pole is] probably the dirtiest thing on the subway, but yet I have to touch it.”

Monica Ball