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FAA launches review of Dreamliners

The review comes after a fire and fuel leak aboard two of the jetliners this week at Boston’s Logan Airport.

Nurses Association blasts Patrick’s retiree health plan

The powerful Massachusetts group slammed the plan to force retired public employees to pay more for their health care.

Flu season may have already peaked in some spots, CDC says

Flu is more widespread across the US, but the number of hard-hit states has declined, health officials said Friday.

After delays, T may cancel $190m order for rail cars

Chronic delays and concerns about shoddy workmanship have prompted executives to threaten to cancel a contract.

Cambridge cancer diagnosticians strike a chord

A start-up uses genomics data and DNA sequencing to help doctors pinpoint treatments for cancer.

Portland Head Light, Portland, Maine.

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5 ‘minimoons’ near (and in) Boston

Does the idea of planning a two-week honeymoon while also organizing a wedding leave you cold? Try a “minimoon” instead.

Kevin Cullen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Kevin_Cullen_150px-3165--90x90.jpg The other health emergency: mental illness

There are 68 million Americans struggling with mental illness or substance abuse. And yet we take the flu more seriously.

Officials expect 600,000 to 800,000 people to attend President Obama’s Jan. 21 inauguration ceremony.

For Obama’s second inaugural, fund-raising limits lifted

Four years ago, $50,000 was the maximum donation for the president’s gala. Now, individuals can give up to $1 million, and the ban on corporate donations is gone.

Dan Shaughnessy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/11/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Dan_Shaughnessy_150px-2855--90x90.jpg No offense, but Texans simply can’t win

Dan Shaughnessy is sticking by his analysis that the Texans can’t beat the Patriots, but he wants Houston fans to know he’s not their enemy.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/Molasses.jpg The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

A giant tank in the North End collapsed and sent a wave of molasses through the streets of Boston, killing 21 people.

Globe exclusives

Andrew Hyams, with wife Tracey and son Josh, said the game reminded him of Newtown massacre.

State removes violent games from rest stops
Even for preseason Patriots games, traffic turns roads leading to Gillette Stadium into virtual parking lots.

Patriots games a boon or bust for local businesses

SCOT LEHIGH

Gun safety: Put a price on it
Teagle F. Bougere in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of “Invisible Man.”

Theater Review

A searing ‘Invisible Man’

Sports Media

Ted Johnson making himself heard

INTERACTIVE DATABASE

Patriots during the Bill Belichick era

Dan Shaughnessy

Good reason no one elected to Hall of Fame

Patrick targets public housing boards
Tracy A. Miner could be facing a year in prison.

Defense lawyer in trouble after rowdy teen party

G Cover

Why many women delay revealing pregnancies

Parishioners and visitors at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross can donate with credit cards.

Parishes offer a collection e-basket

Bargain Bin

End-of-season sales mean deals

Sports

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Last month’s loss left a very bad taste in the mouth of Texans star J.J. Watt, who enjoys proving people wrong.

J.J. Watt driven to avenge loss to Patriots

Watt, perhaps the best defensive player in the NFL, is out to prove those who doubt the Texans wrong.

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Lincell Jackson of Dorchester received the flu vaccine from registered nurse Denise Duvinston at the Upham’s Corner Health Center Thursday.

Medical offices in area flooded with requests for flu vaccines

Doctor’s offices and clinics were inundated with calls from patients seeking flu vaccines after Boston declared a health emergency.

Columnists

Joan Wickersham

Hillary Clinton’s cookies
Dick Gephardt’s 1979 “Gephardt rule” enabled the House to raise the debt ceiling without a vote on it.

Joshua Green

How the House wrecked the ceiling
Arian Foster and the Patriots will be back in Foxborough on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

No offense, but the Texans simply can’t win

Kevin Cullen

A list far too long

SCOT LEHIGH

Gun safety: Put a price on it
Shell’s runaway Arctic drilling vessel, Kulluk, sits grounded 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska, last week.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Shell’s Arctic troubles only buy time

Edward L. Glaeser

The urban innovation model

Dan Shaughnessy

Good reason no one elected to Hall of Fame

Yvonne Abraham

Taking Mayor William ­Lantigua out with the trash
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are appliances that can communicate with each other, such as this LG refrigerator or ADT’s Pulse, which offers smart TV controls.

Consumer Electronics Show

Smart appliances help run your household

Joan Vennochi

Rail company has inside track at T
Curt Schilling tipped his cap to the Fenway crowd on Oct. 25, 2007, after leaving Game 2 of the World Series.

Dan Shaughnessy

How I handled the ‘poison’ Hall of Fame ballot

Nation & World

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Paramedics assisted a student following a shooting on Thursday at a rural high school in Taft, Calif. A teacher and a school official talked the gunman into surrendering.

Shotgun-wielding student shoots one

A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into class in a rural California high school, shot one student and fired at another.

Politics

Ashton Carter, deputy secretary of Defense, in his Pentagon office.

Obama asks Ashton Carter to remain Pentagon’s No. 2

Carter, a longtime Harvard professor, will stay on as deputy secretary of defense to Chuck Hagel.

Business

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A spokeswoman for Albertson’s LLC said Shaw’s and Star Market are expected to keep their brand names.

Shaw’s, StarMarket part of $3.3 billion sale

The stores will be sold to a group that includes Cerberus Capital Management, the company that controls the Steward Health Care System hospital chain in Boston.

Arts

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Television Review

From left: Hannah (Lena Dunham), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet), Jessa (Jemima Kirke), and Marnie (Allison Williams) in HBO’s quirky 20-something drama “Girls.”

‘Girls’: Painfully good

HBO’s “Girls,” returns in great form for season 2. Lena Dunham’s characters remain amusing as they grow up and out of their self-contained cultural warp.

Movies

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Movie Review

Medford-bred writer-director Tom O’Brien’s film is set in the Massachusetts seaside town.

‘Fairhaven’: Finding yourself in the shadow of Tom Brady

This locally shot indie’s slender story line features Medford-bred writer-director Tom O’Brien.

Magazine

The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

The cover for the December 16 2012 issue

Best of the New: Diversions
The cover for the December 9 2012 issue

The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?

Opinion

“It’s the responsibility of homeowners or building managers to ensure that sidewalks are shoveled after it snows, and most do a pretty good job.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Researchers say our disconnectedness from the older version of us is more than a metaphor for the difficulty of imagining the future—it’s a surprisingly powerful subconscious influence on our behavior.”

Leon Neyfakh on the phsychology of keeping resolutions. 

“[A pole is] probably the dirtiest thing on the subway, but yet I have to touch it.”

Monica Ball