Brown backs bill limiting coverage for contraception

Senator Scott Brown is co-sponsoring a bill that would allow employers to limit specific coverage, including contraception, based on religious objections.

Rick Santorum still hasn’t provided promised tax returns

The Republican presidential candidate has yet to release his tax returns, despite saying on Sunday that he would do so within a couple of days.

Honduras

More than 300 killed in Honduras prison fire

Some 475 people escaped and 356 are missing and presumed dead, an official said.

Central Mass., home of the housing bust

The housing market’s collapse hit less affluent communities harder, which is illustrated in Athol, where home values dropped 50 percent since 2005.

Powerball jackpot still unclaimed in R.I.

After a ticket purchased in a Newport Stop & Shop hit the jackpot, the question on everyone’s mind in this affluent community is: “What would you do with $336.4 million?’’

VICTORIA AROCHO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Andy Bless, who is captain of a lobster boat, was among those in Newport imagining how he would spend the Powerball jackpot.

VICTORIA AROCHO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Lena Young, a housekeeper, would quit her job, but would give notice. William Antone said he would pay debts.

VICTORIA AROCHO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Albert Bellgardt, captain of the Redemption, said he would go out and buy a sport fishing boat and sail the world.

VICTORIA AROCHO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

The winning ticket in the multi-state Powerball drawing was sold at a Stop & Shop in Newport, but no one has stepped forward to claim the prize yet.

Brian McGrory

A model city councilor

Boston City Councilor Charles Yancey certainly isn’t the best known politico in the state, but there’s good money that he’s the most photographed.

Experiencing Leonardo from cinema seating

In an experiment that may have huge implications for the global art audience, “Leonardo Live” brings a rare exhibition at London’s National Gallery to area movie theaters - from Fenway to Patriot Place.

“No one should be forced by government to do something that violates the teachings of their faith.”

US Senator Scott Brown 

Globe Insiders

Globe Talks | Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/02/01/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/greenhouse_movies2_business[1].jpg Talk movies with Ty and Wesley

Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

Donors from afar buoying Warren
A counterfeit vial of the cancer drug Avastin is shown.

Counterfeit cancer drug Avastin found in US

Boston’s coffee pioneer back in the cafe business

Caesars CEO dismisses concerns about casinos

Parents, leaders to study school assignment process

Galleries

At Victoria Munroe, final show spotlights six artists

dINING OUT

Boston is full of new chances to drink and snack

Merrimac girl with rare cancer meets her Bieber

Small-business health co-op will slash rates

Bank of America near sale of tower

Helmet cameras grab the slope action
Rob Gronkowski may have been slowed by a bum ankle in the Super Bowl, but he scored 18 touchdowns during the regular season and added three more in the opening playoff game against the Broncos.

On football: Season review

Rating the Patriots: Just shy of Super

Columnists

Jeremy Lin, right, hit a game-winning shot for the Knicks last night and has become a sensation in the NBA.

Bob Ryan

Lin just latest Ivy Leaguer to shine in NBA

Brian McGrory

A model city councilor

Scot Lehigh

Raise the high school drop out age

Jeff Jacoby

On birth control, Obama imperiously overreaches

kevin cullen

A sweet dish of revenge

Joanna Weiss

A path blocked by Lego toys
Rajon Rondo led the Celtics to a win against the Bulls yesterday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Rajon Rondo proving naysayers wrong

adrian walker

Romney can’t outrun past

Innovation Economy

At top of tech sector, women lead by example

Alex Beam

To Sir, with reservations

BOSTON CAPITAL | Steven Syre

Brightcove braces for tough IPO market

Juliette Kayyem

Mass. vets tout skills with Comcast help

Metro

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Parents, leaders to study school assignment process

Parents, business leaders, and academics will comprise an advisory committee that will make recommendations on changing the way Boston assigns students to schools.

Business

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Robert Zoellick

World Bank president Zoellick to step down

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said he will leave the institution when his five-year term ends June 30.

Nation & World

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A bank of centrifuges are seen in what is described by Iranian state television as a facility in Natanz.

Iran proclaims nuclear advances

The country claimed today that it has achieved two major advances in its program to master production of nuclear fuel.

Politics

Major political donors can hide identities

“Dark money” allows anonymous donations, sometimes from corporations that exist on paper only, and the stream of such money is alarming watchdogs.

Sports

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On baseball

Making Daniel Bard a starter not a difficult job

New Red Sox pitching coach Bob McClure says converting Bard from reliever to starter is not brain surgery. In fact, it’s how most pitchers used to develop.

Food & dining

Drinks Special

FOR Food. Boston, MA 2/9/2012 A mocktail called the Unspirited Esteban. The Clio bar is photographed in the Eliot Hotel in Boston, MA on Thursday, February 9, 2012. This is for a story on cocktails. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) Section: Food Slug: 15cocktails Reporter: Devra First LOID: 5.0.840952485

Family tree of cocktail creationists

A family tree of the bartenders who began the craft drink movement.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

In ‘Photograph 51,’ a picture of complexity

It’s said that history is written by the winners. But sometimes history is rewritten — or recaptured — by the dramatists.

Magazine

The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline

Opinion

“New Hampshire, which in 2007 upped its dropout age from 16 to 18 as part of a broader anti-dropout effort, has seen impressive results.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“In the 50 years since the competition, architects have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century. Yet its relationship with the people of Boston has remained uneasy, even hostile.”

Leon Neyfakh on Boston’s City Hall