Brigham performs hand transplants on quadruple amputee
Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and transplant patient Richard Mangino of Revere discussed the 12-hour operation this morning.
Perry unveils economic plan
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry says that he would expand domestic energy production on federal lands, including Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Brian McGrory
Red Sox mistreated their fans
It’s inexcusable what’s happened on Yawkey Way. Not to put too fine a point on it, but your Boston Red Sox basically flipped you off this year.
Climbing into the record book
In September, 17-year old Kristen Kelliher became the youngest female to “highpoint” — climb the highest peak — in all 48 states in the continental US.
Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston globe
Kristen Kelliher, 17, is one of only 404 climbers who have climbed the highest peaks in all 48 contiguous states.
The young climber and her family at the top of Mount Washington, N.H., on Sept. 3, 2003.
“I’ve wanted to do this since I was 9,’’ Kelliher said. Here, she's at the top of Mt. Elbert, Colo., on July 7, 2005.
Her journey is also a family affair. Kelliher's family posed at the top of White Butte, N. D., on May 21, 2006.
Her brother Ryan, mother Mary, and Kristen at the top of Mt. Whitney, Calif., on July 31, 2006.
Conquering Mt. Rainier in Washington took three attempts. She succeeded on July 20, 2011.
Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston globe
At home in Norwich, Vt., the new record holder relaxes with her stepfather and mother.
Towering hopes for downtown
The Kensington will soon begin to rise out of a vacant lot along Washington Street, ending a construction slump that has haunted Downtown Crossing since the Filene’s redevelopment stalled more than three years ago.
View from the protest’s other side
This week in Boston’s Financial District, where Occupy Boston protesters have built their tent city, the reaction to the demonstration ran the gamut from anger to admiration.
“It’s a little disheartening. I’m someone who is at the epicenter of perceived evilness.”
Henry Helgeson, on Occupy Boston
Inside The Boston Globe
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Columnists
Metro
SJC chief justice applauds emergency funds for courts
Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland praised the Legislature for agreeing to give emergency funds to the state court system, and called on Governor Deval Patrick to sign off on the measure.
Business
Apple eyes sales of 4 million as iPhone 4S hits shelves
The iPhone 4S is available at 8 a.m. in each time zone today. Apple stores, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless locations are selling them, with projected sales topping 4 million units.
Politics
N.H. ponders benefit, cost of Dec. vote
Putting the primary in December runs the risk of diluting the focus on the contest and incurring the wrath of the Republican Party old guard.
Nation | World
Strauss-Kahn eludes charges in French court
For the second time this year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn escaped criminal charges of attempted rape, this time due to a three-year statute of limitations.
Sports
Kevin Faulk as hungry as ever to get back on field
The Patriots running back, out since a knee injury last year, should soon get the chance to pull on his pads again and do the only job he’s ever loved: play football.
Movies
Movie Review
Everyday romance done right in ‘Weekend’
This romance between two gay strangers is both a movie about sex and love and a movie about sex and love in other movies. Either way: wow.
Ideas
“As engineers, city planners, and ‘road ecologists’ are realizing, we do need roads. We just need better ones.”
Courtney Humphries, on roads of the future