For transplant recipient, a life resumed

Richard Mangino of Revere drives, paints, and even plays the guitar, thanks to the new hands and forearms he received in a 12-hour transplant operation a year ago.

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Transplant recipient show progress

“The doctors say I can do anything,” Richard Mangino said.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox did well in acting quickly

Bobby Valentine was goofy, opinionated, telegenic, smart, calculating, connected, and a little off the reservation. He was also not a very good manager of this underachieving team.

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Team president Larry Lucchino and general manager Ben Cherington declined to say whether there would be in-house candidates for the role of skipper.

Fans look forward to moving on

Red Sox fans interviewed by the Globe were not surprised the ax came down on Bobby Valentine, though they did not solely blame him for the team’s debacle.

Five deaths tied to meningitis outbreak

Officials expanded a recall of a Framingham pharmacy’s drugs and urged doctors and hospitals to discard all products from the firm.

Nurses to strike Friday at Baystate Franklin

Unionized nurses at the Greenfield medical center plan to hold a 24-hour strike to protest what they say are demands for unreasonable concessions in contract negotiations.

Revealing images, left, were seen by agents in private rooms. Now, gender-neutral outlines, right, are visible to traveler and TSA.

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TSA unveils less revealing body scanners at Logan

The new scanners show only generic outlines of passengers instead of detailed images of their naked bodies.

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On Oct. 1, 1979, thousands lined the streets of Boston to welcome Pope John Paul II to the city.

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Curt Schilling’s bloody sock from the 2004 World Series could fetch around $25,000.

Curt Schilling may sell ‘bloody sock’ to settle debt
Crocus, tulip, galanthus, allium, daffodils.

It’s prime time to plant for spring
Mindy Kaling says she likes dressing up because it makes her happy.

Mindy Kaling on men, sequins, and chunky jewelry
The latest Kindle e-readers offer improved performance, but the rival Nooks still provide good value.

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New Kindle offers light reading
Center Jordan Carter (41) helped lead his teammates through some agility drills at practice on Wednesday.

Boston English football team learns thrill of victory at last
Bobby Valentine’s final hours as Red Sox manager Wednesday were a little sad as the worst season of a generation officially ended.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, an ugly season finally ends

Archive Photos

A look back at Carl Yastrzemski’s Triple Crown
Dunkin’ Donuts has sought other trademark rights, but most are for specific products like “Coffee Coolatta.”

Dunkin’ Donuts lays claim to ‘best coffee in America’ trademark
“The Price of Politics” explores last summer’s faceoff between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (right).

Book REview

‘The Price of Politics’ by Bob Woodward
Bobby Valentine takes the ball from Andrew Bailey, who allowed a tying two-run homer.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox officially now a last-place team
After notoriety onscreen and off, Ben Affleck began rehabilitating his image with a shift to directing in 2007. His new film, “Argo,” opens next week.

As director, Affleck puts the froth far behind

Editorial cartoons by Dan Wasserman

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Bobby Valentine led the Red Sox to a last-place finish in his only season as the Boston manager.

Why Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox didn’t work

Valentine was doomed from the start in his tenure as Red Sox manager. The team and management just wouldn’t buy in to his vision of how to run a club.

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Marcus Pixley

Man freed in drug lab scandal misses court date

A judge issued an arrest warrant for Marcus Pixley, a drug defendant who had his bail reduced due to potential evidence tampering.

Columnists

Bobby Valentine’s final hours as Red Sox manager Wednesday were a little sad as the worst season of a generation officially ended.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, an ugly season finally ends

Jeff Jacoby

A clear knockout for Mitt Romney

joan vennochi

An ineffective Obama falls flat

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Tolls — the solution to our commuting woes
The women in the Swedish IKEA catalogue for 2012, left, were edited out of the Saudi Arabian version, right.

Juliette Kayyem

IKEA’s Saudi problem
The latest Kindle e-readers offer improved performance, but the rival Nooks still provide good value.

Tech Lab

New Kindle offers light reading

scot lehigh

Armed with a pre-debate fact check

derrick z. jackson

50 years later, chemical barrage goes on

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney hasn’t changed a bit

joanna weiss

More refinement from Brown, Warren
The proposed site of Konza Technology City currently has no infrastucture.

farah stockman

In Kenya, turning savannah into gold

Boston Capital

As Sox sank, so did ticket resales

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Facebook has topped 1 billion users.

Facebook tops 1 billion users

CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status on Thursday to announce the milestone.

Politics

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Mitt Romney and President Obama at ing Thursdays debate in Denver.

In debate attacks, context was lacking

Both President Obama and Mitt Romney stretched the truth or omitted key details on health care, deficit reduction, and their own records.

Nation & World

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Turkish soldiers stood guard on the Turkish-Syrian border on Thursday.

Turkey authorizes military operations in Syria

The Turkish prime minister said the Parliament’s action was not a declaration of war, but gives Turkey the right to respond to attacks.

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Book Review

‘Son’ by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is too fine a writer to write a bad book. But no writer is too great for stumbling, as she demonstrates in her long-awaited, young adult novel.

Style

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Actress Halle Berry.

10 Bond girls who had the look

In celebration of 50 years of James Bond, we’re counting down the most stylish Bond girls.

“What we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation, state by state. The federal government taking over health care for the entire nation and whisking aside the 10th Amendment.”

Mitt Romney,  on health care

Magazine

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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

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9 hot trends in kitchen design
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The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires

Opinion

“From now on, when I look at a monarch in my garden, I will know that I am looking at genetics, evolution, ecology, scientific knowledge, and cosmic mystery.”

Joan Wickersham, on monarch butterflies

Ideas

“We know a lot about the things that are closer to our size, our altitude, our spot in the universe — and less about things that are hard to reach, hard to dig up, and hard to quantify.”

Samuel Arbesman  on what big data is missing