Mass. firms chasing China’s boom
Employees assemble medical scanning devices at a Thermo Fisher plant in Shanghai. Last year, the company’s revenues in China grewby 20 percent.

Keith Bedford for The Boston Globe

China’s appetite for technology, advanced industrial machinery, medical devices, and other products in which the state specializes is expected to grow.

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

It seems there is a 51st state. It’s called faux-Arizona and is led by Governor Jan Brewer.

Ray Allen shares his love of books

The Celtics guard uses the pleasures of a good book to ease the boredom of long road trips or soothe a particularly bad loss.

The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

The Red Sox bookended their Lost Weekend in Detroit with a defeat as hideous as any of those we lived through in 2011.

As Pax East ends, gamers get a big industry thank you

Quincy's Irrational Games hosted a get-together to thank fans of its 2007 game, BioShock, and stoke anticipation for the upcoming sequel.

Study: Autism risk higher in children of obese mothers

Mothers overweight enough to affect their metabolism were 67 percent more likely than normal-weight mothers to have a child diagnosed on the autism spectrum.

Martha Coakley publicity stirs speculation

The Democrat who lost the seat held by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy to a little-known Republican wasn’t expected to have a political future, much less a rising one.

AOL to sell more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1b

A “significant portion” of the sale proceeds will be distributed to AOL shareholders, the company said.

Dr. Austen performed surgery on Debra Haining at Massachusetts General Hospital. The dots on her face mark the trigger points where she had told the doctor the migraine pain strikes.

Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff

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Migraines sufferers turn to surgery

A procedure that is becoming more common uses plastic surgery techniques to offer relief for people who have long suffered debilitating pain.

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Wallace showed softer side during visits to native Brookline

New demands from Syria appear to doom peace plan

High-tech Fenway Park keeps its charm

Daily Dose

Is your social network sabotaging your health?
“Black Ice and Fog on the Burgkuhnauer Allee, Dessau’’ is one of 53 photographs in the Lyonel Feininger exhibit.

Photography Review

A sense of discovery in a late-arriving artist

Sky-high Eagles return as champions, again
From left: Director Darren Evans and actors Andres Rey Solorzano and Kelly Rauch during rehearsal for “Vincent River” in Craig Houk’s Dorchester condominium last Monday.

With ‘Vincent River,’ Theatre on Fire is in the house
Billy Hart has drummed with many jazz luminaries over the years. Now he leads a quartet that includes pianist Ethan Iverson, saxophonist Mark Turner, and bassist Ben Street.

Legendary drummer now a band leader

Ideas

How democracies clamped down on the Internet

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The long, hard half-life of Lawyer Johnson
Timothy Cook of Apple appears to be top earner of 2011.

CEO compensation continued to rise in 2011

Timothy Cahill’s defense undercut by record

Metro

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Mansfield mourns teen crash victim

Friends and family mourned 16-year-old Michaela Smith, who died in a car crash early Saturday.

Business

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TECH LAB PLUS

Multimedia gadget shines on price

The eSport Clip is a dirt-cheap gadget that is easily worth its $20 price tag.

Columnists

INNOVATION ECONOMY

At GSN Digital, the focus is on Facebook games

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

Bob Ryan

Celtics made right steps to beat Sixers

Adrian Walker

Judging the judge
The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

INNOVATION ECONOMY

What’s great, and not, about the Bay State

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

Gareth Cook

Beehive management

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Love Letters

He’s tired of treating

Lawrence Harmon

Saving Fenway

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Afghan forces to take charge of military raids

A deal between the US and Afghanistan resolves a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai and Washington.

Politics

Political Notebook

“I do think there’s a desire for a more idea-oriented Republican Party, but that doesn’t translate necessarily to being able to take on the Romney machine,’’ Newt Gingrich said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.’’

Newt Gingrich expects Mitt Romney to win

Gingrich is describing Romney as “far and away the most likely’’ Republican presidential nominee.

Sports

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On Baseball

Red Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves served up a three-run homer to Miguel Cabrera in the ninth to erase a 10-7 Red Sox lead.

Not too early to be concerned about Red Sox pitching

The immediate worry is the state of the bullpen, as Mark Melancon and Alfredo Aceves have been nothing short of horrendous.

Health and wellness

G Force

Catharine Utzschneider’s making positive strides

Utzschneider is the head coach of Liberty Athletic Club, the oldest women’s running club in the country.

Arts

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Book Review

‘Prague Fatale’ by Philip Kerr

Kerr excels at navigating the dark corners of crime thrillers without providing much guiding light to his hero, a Berlin detective.

“That’s a huge population that will want a roof over their head, a car to drive around, and tires to go on it. [China] will need us.”

Patrick Prevost,  CEO of Boston company Cabot Corp.

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Opinion

“It’s like a global party is going on, and Arizona’s Republican leadership is waiting by the phone, in an ugly dress, wondering why no one is paying attention.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Rami Genauer’s project is a kind of experiment — one that asks what happens when you set the powerful urge to watch lawless, explosive violence on a collision course with the blunt tyranny of math”

Leon Neyfakh,  on bringing stats to ultimate fighting