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Roxbury boy expected to recover from shooting

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“This is nothing short of a miracle,” said the 13-year-old boy’s pastor as the community rallied around him Saturday.

Aaron Swartz, left, and business partner Simon Carstensen in Cambridge.

Web activist Aaron Swartz, charged with hacking MIT, dies at 26

Internet entrepreneur Swartz, who was charged with stealing millions of documents from MIT, took his life Friday.

Vince Wilfork was named to the Associated Press All-Pro first team, a first for the nine-year veteran.

Wilfork, Mankins named to AP All-Pro

Patriots Vince Wilfork was named to the Associated Press All-Pro first team, and Logan Mankins was named to the second.

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Having a devil of a time onscreen

What better antidote to winter than a series of movies that highlight the devil’s starpower? The repertory series Dead of Winter: Satan on Screen starts at the Brattle Friday.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Valentine says Piazza belongs in Hall

In his Sunday notes column, Nick Cafardo writes that the former Sox skipper went to bat for Mike Piazza, whom he managed in New York.

INTERACTIVE TIMELINE

Patriots’ playoff success in the Belichick era

Look back on the highlights of the Patriots’ remarkable run of postseason appearances since 2001.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/Molasses.jpg The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

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

Globe exclusives

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Bob Ryan

Baseball Hall of Fame voting process is fine

A rooster wandered the grounds of Fort Christiansvaern in Cristiansted, built in 1738.

St. Croix offers a bit of everything

Mount Washington Alpine Resort on Vancouver Island, BC is known for often having the deepest snow pack of any ski resort on the planet.

Vancouver Island’s Mount Washington steeped in snow
Jackie Bradley in 2012 was named the Red Sox’ minor league defensive player of the year.

Jackie Bradley could become central figure for Red Sox
Smuttynose Brewing Company’s Durty, an imperial brown ale.

99 bottles

Two great craft beers
Jim Allen of Hard Rock International, Eugene Cassidy and Donald Chase, of Eastern States Exposition, and Hamish Dodds of Hard Rock at a press conference Friday to announce their casino proposal.

State’s gaming table is just about set
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
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
Charles and Janice Underhill at their home in West Bridgewater.

For 47 seasons, Patriots fan has been on the scene
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.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Jan. 11, 2013

NEAL GABLER

Hard facts vs. big truths
Andrew Hyams, with wife Tracey and son Josh, said the game reminded him of Newtown massacre.

State removes violent games from rest stops

Sports

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Texans at Patriots | Sunday, 4:30

Arian Foster rushed for 1,424 yards this season for the Texans.

Texans’ hopes largely rest on Arian Foster

One of the NFL’s most impressive running backs, Foster is the key cog that Houston must engage if it is to upset the Patriots.

Metro

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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.

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.

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

Nation & World

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Lance Armstrong and Oprah Winfrey

Lance Armstrong reportedly to admit doping to Oprah

The cycling star will reportedly admit to doping throughout his career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week.

Politics

Some took offense at Scott Brown’s independence and also his bipartistanship.

Scott Brown faces battle over party chair

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

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.

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

“The decision to pay nothing — even a reduced payment — suggests arrogance.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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. 

“I don’t like getting injections. If everyone else gets it, I won’t need to.”

Kathy Solomon, retired medical researcher