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2d company will halt operations in outbreak

A Westborough pharmacy related to the Framingham company at the heart of a fungal meningitis outbreak will cease its compounding operations pending an investigation, officials said.

Record settlement reached for New Bedford cleanup

A manufacturing company has agreed to pay $366 million -- the largest cash settlement in the history of the federal Superfund program -- to clean up PCB-laden New Bedford Harbor.

Senate Debate | 7 p.m.

Brown, Warren square off in Springfield

The Globe’s Glen Johnson will provide live updates from the third Senate debate tonight.

Romney locks down vital swing states, poll center says

Mitt Romney is a lock to win the battlegrounds of Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, according to Suffolk University’s Political Research Center.

Nate Stearns, Alex Moore, and author Michael Andor Brodeur shuck corn, one of many tasks at Nautical Thanksgiving in Scituate.

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Nautical Thanksgiving, a made-up holiday done right

A homemade celebration shares food, stories, and company.

Television Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/129652_6121--90x90.jpg ‘Nashville’ hits most of the right notes

The ABC show thrives on melodrama and big twists but gives its characters more depth than you generally find in network lather-fests.

Anxious people checked the Associated Press teletype machine in the Boston Globe's downtown office on Oct. 22, 1962, as President John F. Kennedy declared a blockade of military equipment bound for Cuba.

Opinion | Nicholas Burns

Cuban Missile Crisis holds lessons for presidential race

The crisis could have ended in nuclear war, but instead leaders opted for diplomacy and compromise to avoid catastrophe.

Annie Dookhan

Dookhan makes appearance at Drumgold drug hearing

Disgraced chemist Annie Dookhan invoked the Fifth Amendment today at a hearing where a judge refused to dismiss charges against Shawn Drumgold.

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Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | Oct. 23, 6 p.m.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/02/17/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/508746086[1]--90x90.jpg Revealing ‘The Real Romney’

Join Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, authors of “The Real Romney,” to discuss the Republican presidential candidate’s life and history.

Globe exclusives

Tim Johnson

A health care disaster
A steroid formulated by a Framingham firm is linked to a meningitis outbreak.

Doctors split on value of low-back injections
The League of Urban Canners is a new organization devoted to converting oft-neglected fruits from city lots and neighbors’ trees into jellies, jams, and preserves, such as the peaches.

Food

Canners turn neighbors’ fruits into jams and jellies
Ben Affleck (center) plays a CIA operative who leads a rescue mission in Tehran during the 1979-80 Iran hostage crisis.

Thursday Preview | Movie Review

Ben Affleck’s fully in charge in ‘Argo’
Felix Baumgartner’s suit was made by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, which made the suit for the first US spacewalk.

Mass. firm outfits daredevil sky diver
Mini lobster rolls.

Dining out

Room to grow at City Landing
Adam Ant (pictured in London in 2011) performed for almost two hours Monday night at Royale.

Music Review

A recharged Adam Ant storms Royale
Television anchorwoman Jennifer Livingston responded to a viewer who wrote her an e-mail criticizing her weight.

Opinion | The Podium

The truth about being fat

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Affiliation of registered Mass. voters
Globe critic Ty Burr takes the risk to bicycle the city’s streets because the rewards are worth it.

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Through the eyes of a city cyclist
Students pass in front of Harvard’s Widener Library. To Gerald and Lily Chow, education consultant Mark Zimny must have seemed like the answer to many parents’ prayer.

Quest for Harvard entry ends in $2m tangle
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Hand transplant is a first for Mass. General

Sports

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The USADA began laying out the evidence it used to ban Lance Armstrong for life.

Armstrong at center of doping

Armstrong’s cycling team had the “most sophisticated” doping program ever in the sport, according to the agency that banned him from racing for life.

Metro

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Miles Smith, a longtime friend and roomate of Jonathan Dailey (at right), gave a statement to the press on Tuesday. Smith said he could think of no one who would want to harm Dailey, who had gone missing on Oct. 2.

Missing student found in Charles River

A man found dead in the Charles River near the BU Bridge has been identified as graduate student Jonathan Dailey.

Columnists

This 1828 Andrew Jackson election poster derided John Q. Adams and his following.

Joanna Weiss

Partisan politics? Take a look at the 19th century
The Patriots’ Stevan Ridley, who rushed for 151 yards in the game, sails over Denver cornerback Champ Bailey as he scores on an 8-yard run in the third quarter.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots’ no-huddle success doomed Broncos

Brian McGrory

Couple still awaiting a happy ending
If you remember the night Tony Conigliaro was struck, you probably remember something else from that time.

Dan Shaughnessy

How sports connects us to key dates

Boston Capital

$100,000 for a start-up, but whose?

Kevin Cullen

Don’t ignore RCC students
Some Chiefs fans kicked quarterback Matt Cassel when he was down Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Fan reaction to Matt Cassel injury uncivilized

Adrian Walker

Tierney in battle he never saw coming

Innovation Economy

Entrepreneurs speak their mind on venture firms

Juliette Kayyem

Generals, make way for the lawyers
Elizabeth Warren’s grandfather

JAMES CARROLL

How family lore shapes character
Ginna is living at a shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston after being turned away more than once.

Yvonne Abraham

A safety net that is leaving more people out

Business

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Toyota recall

Toyota recalls more than 7 million vehicles

Toyota is recalling vehicles around the world for a faulty power-window switch, the latest in a string of recalls for Japan’s top automaker.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama was on the stump Tuesday at Ohio State University.

Ohio to appeal ruling on early voting

Ohio’s election chief said that he will appeal a ruling by a federal court that reinstates the final three early voting days in the state.

Nation & World

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Syria

US sends forces to Jordan in Syria conflict

The United States has sent military troops help bolster Jordan’s defense in the event violence escalates along the Syrian border.

Arts

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GALLERIES

Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #118: Fifty randomly placed points all connected by straight lines,’’ redone at the Museum School.

What’s happening in Boston-area galleries

Back in 1971, Sol LeWitt visited the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and invited students to help him construct a wall drawing.

Food & dining

“What’s in it for Chicopee? I think that’s a message that you really can’t do with statewide advertising.”

Chicopee Mayor Michael Bissonnette,  on the Senate campaign

Magazine

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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

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9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star

Opinion

“When it comes to ‘life and death’ sectors in our economy, it may be that states’ rights can be dangerous, even fatal.”

Tim Johnson 

Ideas

“Gerken has advanced a vision of governance unusual for someone whose political convictions are firmly liberal: She wants local decision-making bodies to be given more opportunity to rebel against federal policy.”

—Leon Neyfakh on Heather Gerken’s argument for “federalism all the way down”