Portrait of the activist as a young man
Twenty-five-year-old Sam Vaghar has turned student networking into a potent weapon in the war on global poverty.
Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
‘Hypermiler’ drivers go extra mile to maximize fuel economy
Hypermilers use techniques that involve no more than common sense and a Zen approach to the road.
Stephanie Knaak
Who’s to blame for making parents paranoid?
In promoting incorrectly skewed messages about risk, parenting experts are conditioning a mindset trained toward paranoia and worry.
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Second acts
On the stage, new versions of classics reveal fresh layers of meaning and show the virtues of theatrical revisions.
Dan Shaughnessy
Ignore the spin: Red Sox fired Francona
The manager and the Red Sox brass tried to make it sound mutual, but Terry Francona turns out to be the first victim of the greatest collapse in baseball history.
What’s up at Friendly’s?
As the parent firm of the Friendly's restaurant chain considers declaring bankruptcy, its biggest challenge is wooing customers whose dining tastes have changed.
Despite protests, St. Jeremiah Catholic Church is sold
Parishioners had conducted vigils after the closing of the Framingham church in 2005, but the archdiocese completed the sale for $2 million in an effort to raise money.
“Some people play the stock market and win big. For me, this is it.”
Haverhill transit analyst Alex Lu, on hypermiling
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Columnists
Metro
Gloucester icon slips into history
After decades of felling hordes of sure-footed men at the Saint Peter’s Fiesta every June, Gloucester’s famed Greasy Pole plunged into the chilly waters off Pavilion Beach Thursday night.
Business
Smaller banks try to win customers over card fees
Massachusetts community banks are vying to win over Bank of America customers outraged that the bank will charge debit card holders as much as $60 a year to use their card.
Nation
Paramedic says scene in Jackson’s house was amiss
Paramedic Richard Senneff testified yesterday that Dr. Conrad Murray’s responses about Michael Jackson seemed inconsistent.
World
Drone attack kills US-born cleric linked to Al Qaeda
Many details of the strike were unclear, but one US official said that Anwar al-Awlaki had been identified as the target in advance and was killed with a Hellfire missile.
Sports
Francona says it’s time to go
Terry Francona spent his last day as manager of the Boston Red Sox coming and going from Fenway Park.
Arts
Battles keeps building its success
Battles, performing at Royale, has revealed itself slowly over the years but experimentation and songcraft produce results for the elite new music trio.
Ideas
“Could it be true, Pinker wondered, that humans had actually become less violent with time, as opposed to more? And if so, how had we done it?”
Leon Neyfakh, on Steven Pinker’s new book about violence in history