House districts may get shake-up
With the deadline fast approaching, Beacon Hill lawmakers are considering a major overhaul for Massachusetts’ tangled, gerrymandered congressional map.
Brian McGrory
Boys’ school shines light on abuse ‘darkness’
Last night, the prestigious Fessenden School, which teaches students from kindergarten through ninth grade, took a dire step unprecedented in its 108-year history.
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Test vaccine reduces malaria risk in children
An experimental vaccine has reduced the risk of children getting malaria by nearly half, researchers reported, the first time a vaccine has shown some protection against the disease.
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Tempers flare in GOP debate
It didn’t take long for Rick Perry and other Republican candidates to take aim at perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney in last night’s debate.
SJC puts foreclosure sales in doubt
The state’s highest court added further turmoil to the housing market when it ruled that buyers of some foreclosed homes may not be the legal owners of those properties.
High honors for woman’s role as a guardian against violence
Suzanne Dubus will be honored at the White House for her domestic violence work with the Greater Newburyport High Risk Response team, which serves nine communities.
Key DiMasi witness hoping for 1-year sentence
Joseph P. Lally Jr. will learn today whether his cooperation with the government was worth it, as he is sentenced for his own role in former House speaker Sal DiMasi’s scheme.
“The residential housing market is never going to stabilize and grow until all of these properties that are in foreclosure are organized and cleaned out.”
Edward Bloom , president of the Real Estate Bar Association
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Columnists
Metro
Sick N.H. woman retrieved from South Pole
A Seabrook, N.H., woman was rescued from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and is receiving care in New Zealand weeks after being stricken.
Business
Blind face unique job-hunt
Twenty employers turned out for a jobs fair for those with impaired vision, a group with diverse skills but a 37 percent unemployment rate.
Politics
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
N.H. Republicans push Romney to boycott Nev. caucuses
The former Mass. governor is eager not to alienate Granite State voters but has not indicated any interest in joining a candidates’ boycott after Nevada pushed its caucus date to Jan. 14.
Nation & World
Obama considers easing health care rules
The Obama administration concluded the standards, which would apply to 6,000 hospitals and save nearly $1.1 billion, were obsolete or overly burdensome to the industry.
Sports
Hurricanes 4, Bruins 1
Bruins boxed out by Hurricanes
While the Bruins were busy taking pinheaded penalties, the Hurricanes poured in a pair of power-play goals, blowing a 2-1 game into a 4-1 rout at the Garden.
Food and dining
G Force
Author Erin Byers Murray digs being an oyster farmer
Erin Byers Murray spent 18 months getting her hands dirty, literally, at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury.
Arts
Galleries
Dreams, the bizarre, a gaze
A critic’s look at exhibits: Jane Smaldone, “New Paintings Tabitha Vevers: The Art of Survival,’’ Mary Sherman, “Waiting for Yves Michelle Lougee: Material Nature,’’ “National Figures.’’
Opinion
“The GOP approach is easily and fairly framed as protecting the Bush-era tax rates for upper earners.”
Scot Lehigh
Ideas
“A string of new studies suggests that the modern chase after happiness—and even happiness itself—can hurt us. Happy, it turns out, is not always the way you want to be.”
Gareth Cook, on the dark side of happiness