HPV vaccine may soon be approved for use in boys
A federal advisory committee recommended that 11- and 12-year-old boys routinely receive a vaccine that girls have been given the past five years to stop a sexually transmitted virus.
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Cherington vows to make Red Sox MLB’s ‘best’ team
The new Red Sox general manager introduced himself by vowing to make up for what he said was a “painful” end to the 2011 season.
Lackey to miss 2012 season
The Red Sox pitcher will have Tommy John surgery, and a clause in his contract gives the team the option of getting John Lackey for an extra year at the league minimum salary.
Exclusive Wednesday Preview | Food
The art of homemade candy
Vermont author Gesine Bullock-Prado finds pleasure and patience in baking from scratch.
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"Sugar Baby" author Gesine Bullock-Prado suggests Florentines as a good starter recipe for the novice sugar cook.
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Gesine Bullock-Prado makes Florentines in her kitchen in White River Junction, Vt.
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Bullock-Prado's buttery almond and chocolate covered toffee can be made in four quick steps.
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Fleur de sel caramels are made with heavy cream, sugar, corn syrup, butter, vanilla extract, and flaky sea salt.
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Bullock-Prado attributes her appreciation of sweets to European culture, where treating yourself to the occasional caramel or toffee, and savoring it, is purposeful.
Recipe for fleur de sel caramels
Author Gesine Bullock-Prado, who lives in Hartford, Vt., has just written a book called “Sugar Baby,’’ which includes a recipe for homemade caramels.
Recipe for buttery almond toffee
JOY OF BAKING
Pumpkin chocolate-chip cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
Everyone wants to bring back some Halloween nostalgia.
“Had you told the 12-year-old me that I would someday walk away from my dream job as general manager of the Red Sox completely of my own volition, I would have thought you were crazy.”
Theo Epstein, former Red Sox general manager
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Metro
Superintendent offers expansion plan
Public reaction was divided on a proposal by Superintendent Carol R. Johnson to expand seven top Boston public schools and create about 700 new seats.
Business
Mass. single-family home sales rise in September
Single-family home sales rose 10 percent in September form the same month a year ago, while the median selling price rose 1.7 percent, a report shows.
Politics
Perry announces ‘cut, balance, and grow’ plan
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, hoping to reinvigorate his fizzling campaign, unveiled a plan today for a 20 percent flat-tax rate.
Nation & World
Libya agrees to investigate Khadafy killing
Libya’s interim government, under mounting international pressure, said that it will conduct an investigation into the death of Moammar Khadafy.
Sports
On Football
Patriots’ pass defense still a serious problem
Unless the pass defense continues to improve greatly, the odds are seriously stacked against these Patriots making a Super Bowl run.
Arts
FRAME BY FRAME
What is unspoken by such a fool?
“Allegory of Folly,’’ unmistakably of a fool, was painted around 1510 when Quentin Metsys was emerging as the leading painter in Antwerp.
Lifestyle
G Cover
Halloween spending to soar
Halloween’s popularity with kids and “kidults’’ - young adults who still enjoy the trappings of childhood - will push spending to $6.9 billion this year.
Opinion
“Most of us agree that we shouldn’t choose a candidate for gender alone. But gender isn’t just an afterthought, either.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“Warren has spent her career trying to coax more legal scholars to conduct the kind of hands-on research that has driven her own work, which remains relatively rare in the field.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the career of Elizabeth Warren