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Truce efforts strained amid Tel Aviv bomb blast

A bomb struck an Israeli bus near Israel’s military headquarters on Wednesday, wounding 27 people.

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An unbridgeable cultural abyss divides Israel and Islamic jihadists.

Pharmacy case may see call for jail time

The top executives of the Framingham pharmacy that has been linked to a meningitis outbreak are likely to be criminally prosecuted on federal charges.

Mass. medical researchers’ funds at risk

Hospitals and research universities face a double-barreled threat from possible cuts in federal funding.

Business leaders offer suggestions on budget crisis

Locally and nationally, business leaders are mulling how they would tackle the slew of tax increases and expense cuts set to take effect in the new year.

TSA airport seizures create new market

The New Hampshire State Surplus Store sells the stuff that gets confiscated by security at New England's busiest airports, including Logan.

Plastic tubs filled with items confiscated from New England’s major airports are resold to the public in New Hampshire.

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Plastic tubs filled with items confiscated from New England’s major airports are resold to the public in New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire State Surplus Store in Concord has become a hub of this secondhand market.

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The New Hampshire State Surplus Store in Concord has become a hub of this secondhand market.

Tom Zekos of Newbury, N.H., searched tubs of confiscated pocket knives for sale at the surplus property store.

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Tom Zekos of Newbury, N.H., searched tubs of confiscated pocket knives for sale at the surplus property store.

TSA collects so many miniature multitools and Swiss Army knives that each model has its own bin at the surplus store, where they sell for $2.

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TSA collects so many miniature multitools and Swiss Army knives that each model has its own bin at the surplus store, where they sell for $2.

There is an entire subculture of resellers who wait in line for hours before the surplus store opens to pounce on the newest inventory.

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There is an entire subculture of resellers who wait in line for hours before the surplus store opens to pounce on the newest inventory.

The store is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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The store is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Snow globes were outlawed along with many liquids and gels in 2007 after an apparent terrorist plot to use liquid explosives on planes.

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Snow globes were outlawed along with many liquids and gels in 2007 after an apparent terrorist plot to use liquid explosives on planes.

Governor Deval Patrick said he is encouraged by the state’s talks with Amazon. But “I’m just not sure that we’re going to have an agreement in place in time for the holidays.”

Mass. prods Amazon to collect sales taxes

The Patrick administration is pressing Amazon.com Inc. to begin collecting sales taxes from Mass. customers as early as next year.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving

Many big box retailers are rendering Black Friday obsolete this year by opening their doors Thanksgiving night as early as 8 p.m.

Colts QB Andrew Luck (12) tries to get off a pass Sunday while under pressure from Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes.

On Football | Midweek report

Pressure from Patriots defense may be short-lived

While they found success pursuing Andrew Luck, the trend may not continue, which can be a boon to the secondary.

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Irma Morales and Sonam Dorjee assembled pies at Whole Foods’ bakery.

At bakeries, it’s all about the pies for Thanksgiving

At Thanksgiving, the food is what’s truly divisive
Jeff Perrott’s “RW 114 (Odiris)” from his show “Vitavulnus,” at LaMontagne Gallery.

Galleries

Reviews of Boston-area art gallery exhibits
The surviving members of the Oneida team at the Nov. 21, 1925, dedication of the marker on Boston Common, where they played football (top) and descendants of the players at the marker last month, with Oneida club president Tom McGrath (third from right).

Remembering the first high school football games
Lobster roll at Olives in Charlestown.

15 Boston restaurant dishes to give thanks for
Co-owner Ajay Sachar (left) in the kitchen.

Cheap Eats

Fine-tuning heat and spice at this Northern Indian spot
In this Oct. 13 photo, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, right, strategized with local union leaders.

Hospital room is now Mayor Menino’s office
Chicken is on St. Anthony Shrine’s holiday menu.

Turkey price has pantries parting with custom
Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski injury?
Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. is considering whether to appeal Judge Kathe M. Tuttman’s decision in the case of Ben Peirce, now 17, who is charged in the 2010 slaying of 29-year-old Adam Coveney.

Mass. seeks new policy on life sentences
Heidi Cron downloaded “Downton Abbey” before it aired in the United States.

TV spoilers are becoming unavoidable

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Holiday arts preview

Sports

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Celtic Leandro Barbosa made his mark on the international scene as a 19-year-old at the 2002 FIBA World Championships in Indianapolis, and the next year he started his NBA career in Phoenix.

Celtics’ Leandro Barbosa made easy switch from soccer

It is difficult to overstate the importance of SC Corinthians and soccer in the life of the Brazil native and Celtics guard.

Metro

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Charles Jaynes says he must change his name in order to truly practice his adopted Wiccan religion.

Cambridge boy’s killer asks judge to OK name change

The father of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley challenged a request by his son’s killer for a name change, calling the man “the face of evil.”

Columnists

An Israeli couple watched the Gaza Strip in the background as they stood on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot on Tuesday.

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A vast moral difference

Derrick Z. Jackson

Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving
The wooden foreparts of Viking ships are thought to have been carved in dragon shapes to ward off sea monsters.

Carlo Rotella

The doomsayer in his hot tub

Kevin Cullen

The truth never dies

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Don’t break up, America

Joanna Weiss

Organizing a real Dumbledore’s Army
Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski injury?

Boston Capital

Comptroller takes tough line with banks
Wily veteran Tom Brady got the better of rookie Andrew Luck in their first career meeting.

Christopher L. Gasper

Luck won’t always be this easy to beat

INNOVATION ECONOMY

App lures football fans with rewards

Juliette Kayyem

BP lets employees take the fall
MA350 earphones, by Reid and Heath Acoustics Ltd.

Tech Lab Plus

Cheap earbuds, rich sound from Reid and Heath

Nation & World

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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (left) signed the deal with Commissioner Roberto Salmon of Mexico.

US, Mexico reach deal on Colorado River sharing

The agreement gives Mexico badly needed storage capacity by granting rights to put some of the Colorado River’s water in Lake Mead.

Politics

President Obama departed Phnom Penh Tuesday after attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Obama’s Asia trip viewed as validating area’s import

With his quick trip, the president appeared to achieve the goal of conveying the importance the nation attaches to Southeast Asia.

Business

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AvalonBay Communities hopes to start building a 503-apartment tower (rendering above) by fall 2013.

38-story apartment tower planned at TD Garden

AvalonBay Communities Inc.’s apartment tower next to TD Garden would include a two-story retail arcade connecting to the arena and North Station.

Arts

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Movie Review

Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, and amid oceanic bioluminescence in Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi.”

Ang Lee’s ‘Pi’ is a marvel

Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, “Life of Pi,” is a marvel of contradictions. The movie shouldn’t work at all, but it does.

Food & dining

From left: Guy LeBlanc, Michael Brentana, and John Cowden with a statue of Longfellow outside the Wayside Inn in Sudbury.

Over the river and through the wood to the Wayside Inn

Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury has served Thanksgiving dinner to generations of locals and travelers.

Living Longer, Living Better

Travel

Jan Theberge of Westport (left) learned about Newport’s history in the rum business during a stop at the Newport Wine Cellar, part of the Newport Gourmet Tour in Newport, R.I. Tour participants also sampled Chef Kevin Thiele’s braised beef shanks on crostini with horseradish cream, aged gouda cheese and truffled micro-greens (top right) at the Hotel Viking. In photo at right, participants Debbie Dollivar of Martha’s Vineyard (left) and Cori Pasqaule of Old Saybrook, Conn., listen to chef Kevin Fitzgerald inside the kitchen of Sardella’s.

Food tours are enriching travel

For many baby boomers, food has become as central to their travel planning as scenery and culture.

“The average human could not do what our team members do. It’s amazing.”

Buck Rollins,  on his 38-person pastry team at the Whole Foods Bread and Circus Bakehouse

Magazine

The cover for the November 18 2012 issue

7 holiday styles that shine
The cover for the November 11 2012 issue

Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
The cover for the November 4 2012 issue

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
The cover for the October 28 2012 issue

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?

Opinion

“So long as Gaza remains a Hamas-ruled tyranny, peace will remain but a dream.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“Funded in large part by the United States and its allies, Cambodia’s war-crimes court seeks to plant the seeds of Western-style justice in Eastern soil, transforming an entire legal system rather than merely putting aging war criminals behind bars.”

Peter Canellos on the power of imported justice