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Patriots add to lead to start 2d half
Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (right) returned to action against the Seahawks.

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Stephen Gostkowski converted on a 35-yard field goal to give New England a 20-10 lead.

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How grocery shopping got personal

We hop from store to store, searching for the best deal and the best quality. How the business of selling groceries is changing—and improving—to suit us.

opinion | jim Leach

Democracy for sale

A former Republican congressman calls the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision a grave error.

Michelle Dipp has OvaScience in line to join the Nasdaq stock exchange.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Michelle Dipp, 36, reflects biotech’s next generation

If Cambridge biotech company OvaScience lands on the Nasdaq stock exchange next year, Dipp would be among the youngest CEOs of a public company in Mass.

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An undated family photo of Elizabeth Marriott.

Search for body of UNH student halted

Authorities temporarily called off the search Sunday for the body of University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth Marriott, believed to have been killed by an acquaintance.

CDC confirms 4 NH patients have meningitis

The four adults in New Hampshire were the first New Englanders to be affected by a nationwide outbreak linked to a Framingham compounding pharmacy.

Felix Baumgartner exited his capsule at the beginning of his record-setting jump on Sunday.

Baumgartner breaks sound barrier in daring feat

Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound after successfully completing a 24-mile jump Sunday from the stratosphere.

Arlen Specter answered questions in Philadelphia in this May 18, 2010, photo during his re-election bid for US Senate.

Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies

Former Senator Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career, died Sunday. He was 82.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/13archives1.jpg The Chelsea Fire of 1973

Already the scene of one of the biggest fires in the history of the country in 1908, the city was engulfed anew on Oct. 14, 1973.

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Jessica Wood ties son Emmett’s shoes as her mother, Anne Low, looks on. Wood and her family live with her parents while they try to get out of debt. For now, buying even a used car (below) is a strain.

A young couple caught up in the middle
Elizabeth Warren is known for pushing students without being mean at Harvard Law School.

At Harvard, Elizabeth Warren has warm reputation
Red Sox GM Ben Cherington wants more Cody Rosses and Vicente Padillas and fewer Carl Crawfords.

Sunday baseball notes

A few ideas to shore up the Red Sox
When the Saints scandal broke, Roger Goodell was in the midst of changing the culture of the NFL as far as player safety.

Sunday Football Notes

Roger Goodell’s Saints bounty ruling still right call
The Ontario Hockey League considers itself a primary feeder for the National Hockey League.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Fighting chance to curb fisticuffs in the OHL
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” a collaboration between the American Repertory Theater and commercial producers, went from Cambridge to Broadway.

Are nonprofit theaters too closely tied to commercial producers?
The indie McNally Jackson Books in SoHo has a cafe, spaces for readings and workshops, printers to use for your book, and, yes, books to buy.

travel

48 hours in New York City

magazine

Brian McGrory on life with a dog and a rooster
A bike is partly buried in snow while a cyclist shares the road with a bus on Commonwealth Ave.

tom keane | opinion

The problem with bicycling in Boston
Led Zeppelin

movies

‘Celebration Day’ for Led Zeppelin fans
“I knew her as a bright young woman,” Marsie Silvestro said of Alexis Wright, who has pleaded not guilty.

Zumba instructor prostitution story grips Maine town
Richard Nixon gives his famous “checkers speech” on TV.

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‘Just Plain Dick’ by Kevin Mattson

Sports

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Sunday Basketball Notes

What David Stern realized is that many of the arenas that house Euroleague teams are not up to NBA standards.

David Stern has cooled on NBA’s European expansion

The NBA commissioner now appears content with exhibition games and the occasional regular-season game overseas.

Metro

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Elizabeth Marriott in an undated family photo.

N.H. man charged in death of UNH student

Seth J. Mazzaglia, 29, has been charged with the murder of Elizabeth Marriott, 19, a University of New Hampshire student and Westborough native.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Accentuate candidates, eliminate the moderator

JOAN VENNOCHI

State’s in trouble; where’s Patrick?

Nguyen Chi Thien, right, spent his life fighting communism. Eric Hobsbawm, left, spent his life as a communist supporter.

JEFF JACOBY

Communism, in life and death

Bob Ryan

There is a lot to like about these Patriots
The Patriots will be hearing from the fans at CenturyLink Field — the NFL’s loudest.

Dan Shaughnessy

Seattle will be a racket for the Patriots

JOANNA WEISS

Big Bird ad ruffles some feathers

Beverly Beckham

When you care to send the very best
Michelle Dipp has OvaScience in line to join the Nasdaq stock exchange.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Michelle Dipp, 36, reflects biotech’s next generation

CARLO ROTELLA

School is renewed, but there’s hard work ahead

Adrian Walker

The machine and the man

lawrence harmon

Reefer madness

JOSHUA GREEN

Election is a referendum on Obama

Business

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Andrea Winterer not only reduced the interest rate on her Natick mortgage but also cut the term and saves money.

Consumers are flocking to shorter loan terms

More homeowners in Mass. and across the US are refinancing home loans to shorter terms, paying off their debts faster and saving thousands of dollars.

Politics

“Mitt Romney is not someone I would have picked, that’s for sure,” says D.J. Moberley, a 30-year-old evangelical Christian who now spends hours chatting up Romney.

In twist, evangelicals now backing Mitt Romney

Long wary of his Mormon faith, the religious right is now rallying to the GOP candidate’s cause in critical swing states.

Nation & World

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Don Matyja, a 50-year-old Army veteran, says, ‘‘They figure if they don’t see you, then the problem don’t exist.”

Many new city ordinances targeting homeless

The homeless say the rules are a thinly veiled attempt to push them out of one city and into another by criminalizing the daily activities they cannot avoid.

Arts

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From left: Reed Sturtevant, Liz Coffey, and Gordon Nelson, who will be participating in Home Movie Day on Saturday.

Home Movie Day helps keep Super 8 films alive

Thanks to Home Movie Day, any awkward, nerdy masterpiece can now find a wider audience.

Books

book review

‘The Oath’ by Jeffrey Toobin and ‘America’s Unwritten Constitution’ by Akhil Reed Amar

Two books look at the Constitution and the different ways that scholars, lawyers, and courts interpret it.

Travel

The author’s son, Ben, happened onto a street performer and into the act in Central Park.

Book a hotel or rent an apartment in New York?

A weekend in New York with two kids under 7.

“Mitt Romney is not someone I would have picked, that’s for sure.”

D.J. Moberley,  a 30-year-old evangelical Christian

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The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal
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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design

Opinion

“Unrepentant communists merit repugnance, not reverence.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“The strategy that underlies American policy, the Carter Doctrine, is now more than 30 years old, and in dire need of an overhaul. …Today, it drives American engagement in a Middle East that looks far different from the region for which it was invented.

Thanassis Cambanis , on the need for a new Middle East policy