Cost-controlled health coverage gaining ground

In just three years, more than 1.2 million people in Massachusetts are now covered by plans that put providers on a budget in an effort to restrain health spending.

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Boston school bus drivers gave warning of route troubles

Before the school year began, drivers warned that Boston’s schools would repeat “systemwide chaos’’ if they proceeded with error-ridden routes.

Boston lawyer keeps steady hand on Romney’s holdings

R. Bradford Malt, chairman of Boston’s biggest law firm, burst into the national spotlight last week as the trustee responsible for Mitt Romney’s vast fortune.

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Mitt Romney has been bolstered by impressive poll numbers and a sense that he will withstand a backlash from conservatives and the Tea Party to win the Florida primary.

Victor Cruz caught 82 passes fof 1,536 yards and nine touchdowns this season for the Giants.

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Victor Cruz a surprise star for Giants

Since making the Giants as an undrafted rookie in 2010, the former UMass player has set franchise records and become one of the best slot receivers in the NFL.

Super Bowl loyalties divided in Connecticut

An invisible line wends its way along the Connecticut River Valley, splitting allegiances to the Giants and the Patriots down the middle.

The Patriots coach Bill Belichick said there was no place he’d rather be right now than in Indianapolis, a city in which his team has waged some of its fiercest battles and has left in heartbreak more than once.

Relaxed Bill Belichick ready for Super week

The Patriots head coach was in high spirits yesterday, and as he embarks on his fifth Super Bowl even some of his players noticed his jovial mood.

Adrian Walker

Where Kevin White fell short

The plain fact is that during school desegregation — the greatest challenge a Boston mayor has faced in modern times — White was paralyzed.

“This is like the Switzerland of sports. Last night, I talked to a Giants fan. I talked to a Mets fan. You never know who you’re sitting next to.”

Mike McCoy,  who moved to Connecticut from Maine

Globe Insiders

Globe Insiders Video

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Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman talk about their new biography of GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Inside The Boston Globe

Tens of thousands of fans turned out for a Patriots rally at Gillette Stadium yesterday as the team departed for Indianapolis for Sunday’s Super Bowl duel with the Giants.

2008 loss weighs on Patriots fans at send-off
The Patriots coach Bill Belichick said there was no place he’d rather be right now than in Indianapolis, a city in which his team has waged some of its fiercest battles and has left in heartbreak more than once.

Relaxed Bill Belichick ready for Super week

G Cover

Medical spas are booming
Lenny Kravitz (pictured in Rio de Janeiro last year) performed songs from his new CD and his old hits at the Citi Wang Theatre on Friday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Kravitz at home in his comfort zone
Carbonite’s David Friend, shown logging on to his firm’s site, sees his company struggling in New York.

Boston trailing NYC on Internet

Perspective

Oh, captain
Bain Capital, led by Mitt Romney, bought Domino’s for $1.1 billion, investing $385 million in cash and borrowing the rest. Thomas Monaghan (on left) founded the company in 1960.

Domino’s delivered for Bain Capital

After championship drought, a delirious deluge

Brian McGrory

Kevin White: The loner and the city he changed

For 2 Mass. firms, opportunity is in the air in China
The signing of Albert Pujols brings the Angels lineup together. They have a force in the middle.

Sunday Baseball Notes

For what they’re worth, the winter standings

john E. Sununu

Apple, not manufacturing, is America’s future

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

US has tied own hands as Cuba drills
Emily Nagle Green calls the Smart Lunches concept ‘‘compelling.’’

INNOVATION ECONOMY

School lunch delivery firm has hunger for national market

Adrian Walker

Where Kevin White fell short

Joan Vennochi

A birthday wish for James

Bob Ryan

Once beloved, Patriots are now loathed

Yvonne Abraham

The making of a Patriots fan

Jeff Jacoby

Eliminate the Registry

Gareth Cook

In godless we don’t trust

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Making microbes that can do the dirty work

Joanna Weiss

The debate peanut gallery is part of the show

Brian McGrory

Kevin White: The loner and the city he changed

LOVE LETTERS

Love after two months?

Metro

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‘Rockefeller’ trial hampered by lack of physical evidence

Calif. prosecutors will have to overcome evidentiary hurdles to win a murder conviction against the man once known as Clark Rockefeller, legal specialists say.

Nation & World

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Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people

Authorities were still trying to determine what caused a deadly pileup early yesterday near Gainesville on Interstate 75.

Politics

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Congress to vote on stock tips bill

A bill cosponsored by Senator Scott Brown would prohibit members of Congress from using nonpublic information for their personal benefit.

Business

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“The problem is using the medicines,” said Dr. Sara Hamilton, a pediatrician at St.Mary’s Hospital and a researcher at University College London and Imperial College, all in London.

Putting care in patients’ hands

A contest at MIT had specialists developing prototypes of inventions designed to help patients take control of their health.

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Cavaliers 88, Celtics 87

Paul Pierce walks away dejected while Anderson Varejao celebrates the Cavaliers’ come-from-behind win over the Celtics.

Cavaliers steal one from Celtics

The Celtics shut down for the final third of the fourth quarter, going scoreless and allowing 19-year-old Cavaliers rookie Kyrie Irving to steal the game with his heroics.

Health and wellness

G Force

“Every time someone comes to the hospital with a stab wound, a gunshot wound, an assault, it’s an excellent opportunity to educate them,” said Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.

Violence as health problem

Acts of violence should be treated as a chronic health problem, according to Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Arts

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OPERA REVIEW

Sophie Michaux in Helios Early Opera’s staging of “David et Jonathas’’ on Friday at First Church Congregational.

Helios debut full of promise

A month after Opera Boston’s self-extinguishment, Helios Early Opera debuted its first full operatic staging, of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1688 “David et Jonathas.’’

Magazine

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
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution
The cover for the January 8 2012 issue

The spirit of giving?

Opinion

“Sure, it sounds great at the time. Have one child! ... But it’s like the ‘Bill Me Later’ option on PayPal. It’ll get you eventually — and hurt much more then.”

Jennifer Graham 

Ideas

“A surprising number have pushed past the humiliation of defeat and laid claim to a level of prominence they might never have attained if they hadn’t run.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on presidential election losers