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	ADVERTISEMENT Thursday, December 31, 2009 Anika buys Italian biotech company By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff Anika Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fidia Advanced Biopolymers (FAB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of privately held Italian pharmaceutical company, Fidia Farmaceutici.FAB provides hyaluronic acid-based products in several therapeutic areas including for the... Judge rules for plaintiffs in suit against utility Associated Press The plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Unitil have won a legal victory from a judge who ruled against the electric utility's motion to move the case out of central Massachusetts.Residents and businesses in the Fitchburg area sued the... Today in Globe Business Pan-Mass. gears up to ride out weak economyFund-raising declined at last summer?s array of rides under the Pan-Mass. umbrella, the first drop since the event began as a two-day bike ride 30 years ago, participants and organizers said they are... Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Software firm buys building, expands in Mass. Associated Press MathWorks Inc. has purchased an office building in Natick for $30.8 million, part of an expansion that could create hundreds of new jobs at the engineering software firm.The 170,000-square-foot building is located in the same Apple Hill complex...

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Yemen gas shipments to Boston stir worry | Terror cited; Coast Guard examines tanker security  Street life to dance life | Krumping credited with diverting teens from a troubled path  For Brown, JFK transcends party lines | Democrats attack ad citing late president  8 Americans die as bomber hits CIA Afghan base | Agency’s highest toll of war includes a Mass. civilian  Pain, puzzlement over hockey player’s death  More Globe Stories  BRUINS 4, THRASHERS 0: Bruins deliver a thrashing | Offense on target; Rask posts shutout  On golden ponds | Chilly childhood days forged warm memories  SUNS 116, CELTICS 98: Celtics popped again | Banged-up team is belted by Suns  Patriots’ Mankins taking a guarded approach on contract  More Sports  Family of clerk say they’ve hit visa snag | Daughter can’t travel to attend funeral  Beginning ’10 | As 2009 heads for exit, people find variety of ways to welcome the new year  Newton’s new mayor faces high expectations | Residents seek revival in city’s quality of life  Neighbors oppose church’s ‘gift from God’ | Condo partnership frays ties with some in Cambridge community  More City/Region		ADVERTISEMENT   HELP OTHERS NEAR YOU Find your favorite causes and ways to make a difference in the Boston.com Do Good Channel. GIVE: Help provide holiday gifts HELP: Gift shop volunteer needed GIVE: Donate your old computer  SEE ALL CATEGORIES
Mass. joins program to cut tailpipe emissions | Goal is finding cleaner-burning fuels for vehicles  Foreclosures worm way into tony towns | Wealthier areas are feeling the strain that has already scarred other communities  TECH LAB: New year expected to bring Googlephone, Apple tablet  Expressway drivers can watch as carpenters work | New union building will offer a window on apprentices  MANAGING YOUR MONEY: 2010 brings more rights for consumers  More Business  The 100 | Unforgettable plays, performances, movies, songs, books, TV moments, and other cultural highlights (and lowlights) from Boston and beyond that will define the decade of double zeros  VOICES | BETH TEITELL: Weighty concerns | It seems the deck is stacked against those New Year’s dieting resolutions  Mark Feeney looks back on a decade that’s hard to forget - but also hard to name  Alex Beam peers 10 years into the future  G FORCE: Sculptor Donald Chapelle brings the ice  More Living  More Arts  GLOBE EDITORIAL: Domestic violence declines but crosses many boundaries  GLOBE EDITORIAL: Carbon controls: Do it for the pinot noir  GLOBE EDITORIAL: The House’s improved ed bill  MATTHEW BERNSTEIN: Name that decade | It was all about you, except when it wasn’t  ALAN BERGER: China takes flight  JEFF JACOBY: New adventures in incivility  JOAN VENNOCHI: In politics, Italians ruled  JOANNA WEISS: The ‘reality’ decade  DANTE RAMOS: A gadget odyssey, at Apple’s instigation  More Editorial/Opinion