44,000 to lose Medicaid coverage in Maine

Alone in New England, a Tea Party governor eschewed Medicaid expansion, calling it welfare. The state’s poor and disabled call his stance heartless.

When South Station opened, it covered Atlantic Avenue to the Fort Point Channel. Much has changed.

An $850 million plan to return South Station to bygone glory

Governor Deval Patrick is pushing for an expansion project as one of the major components of his sweeping transportation plan.

Officials confident ahead of weekend snowstorm

The storm, which should arrive Saturday afternoon and intensify overnight, could bring up to 6 inches of snow within Route 128, and 10 inches in hilly areas near Worcester.

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People walked under yellow police tape near Mass. Ave on the MIT campus after a lockdown was lifted.

Report of a gunman inside MIT unfounded, authorities say

Cambridge Police said that the scene was clear after a report of a person with a gun on campus.

Cardinal O’Malley led a Mass on Friday to celebrate Benedict XVI’s reign.

Cardinal O’Malley ready for conclave to choose the next pope

Cardinal Sean O’Malley will attend the resignation ceremony of Pope Benedict XVI and take part in the conclave that will decide who replaces him.

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Red Sox spring training, a rally for youth jobs funding, Chinese New Year festivities, and more of the best Boston Globe photos of the week.

Air Force Major Scott Snider prepared for a flying exercise.

Plymouth native emulates enemy in Air Force war games

Scott Snider, an Air Force pilot plays the enemy target, replicating what a foe might do.

Having recovered from elbow surgery, Junichi Tazawa “opened a lot of eyes” last year, according to GM Ben Cherington.

Junichi Tazawa made major upgrade for Red Sox

Over 44 innings last season, Tazawa allowed 37 hits with five walks and 45 strikeouts. His fastball, once an average pitch, jumped to 95 and 96 on occasion.

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“Blood Play” is set in Skokie, Ill., in the 1950s with deliberately cartoonish characters.

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‘Blood Play’ has mordant fun but misses mark
Antonella Michelena, a television reporter from Mexico, silhouetted as she reported from the red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

A guide to the Oscars
Dan Brady, area director and investigator for the Doe Network, a Web-based group of amateur sleuths who try to identify unidentified bodies by checking databases for identifying marks and scouring newspaper accounts of missing persons.

Web sleuths help solve cold cases

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Lights, cameras, the world: movies that take us places
One of the 'Nun days' at Fenway park in the mid 1960s.

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What American nuns built
Vince DiMaggio had to live with, “I’m not Joe,’’ just as Billy Bulger has to live with, “I’m not Whitey.” Stephen Drew comes to Fenway Park this year with the added burden of reminding us, “I’m not J.D.’’

Dan Shaughnessy

How much like J.D. is Stephen Drew?
Patrick Burke’s group You Can Play recruits athletes to fight gay bashing.

Group hopes to take homophobia out of sports
“In order for Boston to continue to be a sustainability leader, Boston’s buildings must continue to aggressively invest in energy efficiency,” Mayor Thomas Menino said.

Menino takes on Boston buildings’ energy use
Maura McCormick visits a Salem Five branch; some customers rely on call center staffers like Jennifer Silveira.

Bank won’t always steer to high rates
Sundar Pichai unveiled Google’s Chromebook Pixel laptop.

Google to sell touchscreen laptops

Show of force in ‘Boston’s Finest’

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Celtics 113, Suns 88

The Celtics’ Jeff Green had a season-high 31 points in a starting role.

Celtics embarrass Suns with balanced effort

The Celtics gave Kevin Garnett the night off, plugged in a couple of green newcomers, and then rolled to their biggest win of the season.

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Caroline Saba, 22, pointed to her cousin, Nathaniel Fujita, during his murder trial in Woburn.

Fujita said police won’t find a weapon, cousin says

Nathaniel Fujita told his cousin that police searching his home wouldn’t find anything connecting him to his former girlfriend’s slaying, according to testimony.

Columnists

Lawrence Harmon

For Boston’s students, assignment plans are a lost opportunity

RENÉE LOTH

Boston prepares for future superstorms

SCOT LEHIGH

Ed Markey: A campaign snapshot

Kevin Cullen

Changes in the air for Globe
What remains to be seen is whether the expanded programs Obama and Patrick are proposing will work or merely reinforce the deficiencies and inequities that exist between school districts.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Preschool alters lives — or adds to status quo

joan wickersham

Navigating the grammatical thicket
Vince DiMaggio had to live with, “I’m not Joe,’’ just as Billy Bulger has to live with, “I’m not Whitey.” Stephen Drew comes to Fenway Park this year with the added burden of reminding us, “I’m not J.D.’’

Dan Shaughnessy

How much like J.D. is Stephen Drew?
After his team won just 69 games in 2012, GM Ben Cherington is happy to have another opportunity.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox GM Ben Cherington merits blame too
Aqib Talib (right) and Alfonzo Dennard helped improve the Patriots’ secondary when they came on in the second half of last season.

Christopher L. Gasper

Now the Patriots must tag Aqib Talib
The FreedomPop (left) and Karma.

Tech Lab

Cheap access to the Internet is in the air

opinion | farah stockman

Land rushes — and the people left behind
Would Boston consider hosting the Olympic rings, which are headed to Sochi, Russia, next year?

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Should Boston try to host the Olympics?

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Vernal Fall is among the attractions at Yosemite, which is preparing for possible cutbacks.

National parks plan for service cuts

As the clock ticks toward forced spending cuts and the vacation season nears, the National Park Service is gearing for the potential effects.

Politics

Small-airport control towers would be shut if sequestration cuts go into effect, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

White House highlights travel disruptions

The White House on Friday warned of potentially severe disruptions in air travel if across-the-board spending cuts take effect in less than a week.

Business

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Mass Tank of Middleborough used its metal fabrication expertise to help start-ups innovate materials and components.

Industrial landscape has holes, MIT says

A new report urgently recommends that the nation rebuild its “industrial ecosystem” of manufacturers, suppliers, research, and skilled labor.

Arts

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Stage Review

Phil Tayler and Daniel Berger-Jones play all 15 characters in “Stones in His Pockets.”

Lyric Stage cuts to the heart of ‘Stones in His Pockets’

In this two-actor, 15-character production directed by Courtney O’Connor at the Lyric Stage Company, there’s plenty to think about as well as laugh at.

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The cover for the February 17 2013 issue

A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
The cover for the February 10 2013 issue

Change on the Mystic
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South End remodel: Rear window
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

New England traditional, with a twist

Opinion

“By the end of the century, with the harbor’s predicted sea level 5 feet above the current average, the city would experience what we now consider a 100-year coastal flood twice a day, every day.”

Renée Loth  

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Ideas

“In 1925, Time Magazine reported on a doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich., who believed the average man’s hands were ‘contaminated with...secretions,’ and that people who insisted on shaking hands anyway were ‘purveyors of death.’ ”

Leon Neyfakh, on the risks of handshakes