Harvard to lead $100m study of NFL players

The NFL players union has selected Harvard to oversee a research initiative aimed at treating and preventing the health problems plaguing the athletes.

Obama, senators prepare immigration plans

Advocates are mobilizing for what they say is their best chance in almost three decades to secure a path to US citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.

Boston’s Museum of Science aims to create a more vibrant entry that will take better advantage of the site’s waterfront porch.

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Museum of Science gallery will focus on Charles

The museum will build a $21 million gallery overlooking the Charles River that will feature displays on its ecosystem and history.

Kevin Cullen

When judgment comes with wisdom

Before there was Aaron Swartz, there was David LaMacchia, an MIT student who faced similar hacking charges in 1994 but was shown a great deal of mercy.

Some singles say they prefer group get-togethers because they are less pressured than one-on-one dates.

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Dating sites remake the introductions

Several new matchmaking start-ups are tailored to millennials who have no interest in a string of traditional one-on-one dates to find companionship.

Mary Gundrum is grateful to the medical team at Boston Children’s Hospital that took care of her son Dominic Pio.

Family’s agonizing trail leads to infant’s surgery

A mother whose baby was born with part of his brain outside his head, along with a myriad of other issues, turned to Children’s Hospital for a rare procedure.

Book excerpt

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In the final excerpt from his book, the ex-Sox manager discusses how he was hurt when news about his use of pain medication leaked after he left the team in 2011.

State Senator John A. Hart Jr. was first elected to the House in 1996 and to the Senate in 2002. He hosts the annual Saint Patrick’s breakfast in South Boston.

Hart set to quit state Senate today

State Senator John A. Hart Jr., a favorite to succeed Therese Murray as Senate president, plans to announce that he is resign­ing to take a job at a law firm.

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Marc Harris at one of his three Boston salons. “The challenge is maintaining that [level of attention] in the second visit,” he said. “But a busy stylist can see 40 to 60 clients a week.”

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When the second cut doesn’t cut it
Above (from left): Devin, Matt, and Jonathan in A&E’s “Southie Rules.”

Television Review

Little story in ‘Southie Rules’

Album Review | SOUL POP

Not much new on Destiny’s Child’s ‘Love Songs’
“Oliver!” stars Jeffrey Sewell (left) as the Artful Dodger and Charlie Clinton as Oliver Twist.

Stage Review

Wheelock’s ‘Oliver!’ steals hearts
Enmojo, an Internet start-up founded by Robert Lawless (left) and Chris Buchanan, helps homeowners compare energy project costs.

Start-up easing the pain of energy upgrades
The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company is on the forefront of the tiny house movement. Its Fencl design is 130 square feet, including vaulted ceilings. And it fits on a trailer.

Opinion | Jennifer Graham

‘Tiny houses’ downsize the American dream
Carol Gilmore, a public health hygienist who provides dental services to children, treats Kyara Fortes at the offices of Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc.

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Bringing dental care to children without dentists
“Tito was great with me. I don’t think with any other manager I could have had that comfort level,” Jon Lester said on manager Terry Francona, who guarded the pitcher’s privacy during his treatment for large-cell lymphoma.

Book Excerpt

Job became more personal with Jon Lester in need
Mayor Thomas M. Menino (shown speaking last year) said he is focused on the tone of this year’s address.

Menino and speech will draw scrutiny
Natan Odenheimer listened at a panel discussion hosted by Brandeis Visions for Israel in an Evolving World, a group at Brandeis University.

Group at Brandeis stirs debate on Israeli politics
Former Chelsea Housing chief Michael E. McLaughlin.

US may tell Chelsea to repay $7m in grants
In a set of stories being pitched foramovie, Leslie Bibb and Justin Long star in “Movie 43.”

Movie Review

What are these stars doing in ‘Movie 43’?

Sports

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Bruins 5, Hurricanes 3

David Krejci sees what the Hurricanes see — his winner in the net.

Bruins hold off the Hurricanes

David Krejci scored the winning goal late in the third and Tyler Seguin added an empty-netter as the Bruins recorded a 5-3 win.

Metro

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Workers prepared Faneuil Hall Monday for Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s State of the City address Tuesday. Menino was expected to announce an initiative with Harvard and MIT to offer free onlinc courses at the city’s community centers.

MIT, Harvard to work with Boston on online classes

The city plans to launch a partnership with Harvard and MIT through the universities’ experimental online initiative edX.

Columnists

FARAH STOCKMAN

Inauguration, Massachusetts style

JOANNA WEISS

Bobby Jindal and the problem of the ‘stupid party’

Kevin Cullen

Judgment with wisdom

JULIETTE KAYYEM

From Seneca Falls to Stonewall and back again

Tech Lab Plus

Keyboard for the iPhone is a clever touch
CEO David Patrick (right), shown with founder Chuck Goldman, says 100-plus companies use Apperian’s technology.

Innovation Economy

Intel invests in creator of ‘app stores’
Rajon Rondo looked to throw a pass in a game against the Charlotte Bobcats on Jan. 14 at the TD Garden in Boston. Rondo will miss the rest of the regular season with a knee injury.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rajon Rondo injury clouds Celtics future

Yvonne Abraham

Close call that shouldn’t be

JOANNA WEISS

Beyonce, the lip sync, and the lies
Ben Affleck

JOAN VENNOCHI

Put the brakes on tax breaks

Innovation Economy

Amazon is busy, but secretive, in Kendall Square

Derrick Z. Jackson

Obama’s more perfect union

Nation & World

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Mourners gathered outside the Kiss nightclub Monday in Santa Maria, Brazil. Funerals began for the more than 230 victims, most of them college students 18 to 21 years old.

Neglect, errors led to Brazil club inferno

All the elements were in place for the tragedy at the Kiss nightclub early Sunday.

Politics

“I’m going to make an appointment of . . . a good steward of the interests of the people,” Governor Deval Patrick said.

Governor Patrick’s interim senator pick near

Senator Kerry’s plan to resign Tuesday will set off a quick series of events this week that could define Mass. politics for years to come.

Business

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Genzyme researchers in the biotech company’s Framingham laboratory.

Genzyme advances MS drug business

The drug maker has pushed deeper into multiple sclerosis treatments, a field that is led by its Cambridge neighbor Biogen Idec Inc.

Arts

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Book REview

The cover “Good Kids” by Benjamin Nugent.

‘Good Kids’ by Benjamin Nugent

The book is a minimally derivative addition to the much-excavated genre of early adulthood relationship angst.

Lifestyle

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“You get that va-va-voom moment the first time, but then you get used to the haircut, so how can you be wowed the second time around? . . . I don’t think anyone ever has perfect hair. Only Kate Middleton,” said Tiffany Anderson, a high school history teacher from Jamaica Plain.

Tips for getting the best haircut possible

Want to make sure you get the best haircut possible? The trick is to ensure that when you do do something, it’s the right thing.

Magazine

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New England traditional, with a twist
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My friend Tito
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Alfresco fabulous
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Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012

Opinion

“What will people remember about this inauguration 10, 20, 30 years into the future, after our country has passed through its current cultural crises — over deficits and taxes, over gay marriage and the ‘defense’ of marriage?”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“Ten years after ‘victory’ in Iraq, we still don’t know what victory means. Without a clearer idea of what winning wars looks like, we risk falling into situations where they could go on forever”

Gal Beckerman on what victory means now 

“You get used to [the pain]. I hope this project gets us to a place where players some day don’t have to get used to it.”

Domonique Foxworth,  a former Ravens cornerback, on Harvard’s $100 million study of NFL players