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December 13, 2009	Page One   Sports   City | Region   Living | Arts   Business   Editorial | Opinion

Developer’s easy-money pitch left a trail of ruin | Of 169 condos sold, most in Dorchester, more than half are now in foreclosure  Under the icy north lurks a ‘carbon bomb’ | Tropical deforestation is a climate change crisis, but scientists fear for boreal wilderness, too  Al Qaeda looking to Yemen as next base | Officials say move already underway  Filling a hole in the heart of town | Across New England, residents pool resources to save their treasured local shops  More Globe Stories  PATRIOTS: Making an effort in trying times | Moss out to disprove lingering reputation  BOB RYAN: How the mighty have fallen  Circus catch | Bataille performing well for NU  ISLANDERS 3, BRUINS 2 (OT): Bruins falter in OT | Islanders boosted by quick strike  CELTICS 106, BULLS 80: Celtics make it a perfect 10  Bay rejects Red Sox’ latest offer, willing to ‘move on’  More Sports  Christmas shopping a bit bleak downtown | Former Filene’s site is blight on district  YVONNE ABRAHAM: Support Main Street  Gillette limiting Woods’s role in ads | Cites support for pro as he takes hiatus  A heads-up for trouble | Cut It Out program trains hairstylists to recognize signs of abuse and safely refer clients to local resources  Lynnfield man denies killing his wife | He says polygraph shows innocence  More City/Region		ADVERTISEMENT   Find Local Stores and Services Boston.com's new Local Business Search uses the power of Google to help you find businesses and professionals in your home town. Tree service Dermatologists Ninety-Nine Restaurant Toys  Search anything else
You can’t handle the truth | A respected scientist set out to determine which drugs are actually the most dangerous -- and discovered that the answers are, well, awkward  FreeHarvardEducation.com | Does anyone own what universities teach?  THE WORD: Meep! | The power of the meaningless  BRAINIAC: Don’t buy green | Recent highlights from the Ideas blog  Q&A: Change is forever | The messy histories of great landmarks should make us think differently about buildings, says Edward Hollis  More Ideas  SPAIN: Art took root where Moors and kings ruled | A city with no place to go but up, no style to better symbolize it than abstract  CHILE: A drive full of marvels, even including the road  MAINE: Paying to cook with a pro | A nicked pinkie, flying lobster bands . . . has the soufflé fallen?  Imagination, antlers put them on a rooftop  R.I.'s resting place of renown  More Travel  Mass. lawmakers weigh in on second stimulus  INNOVATION ECONOMY: ‘Cash for Caulkers’ | Firms that do energy audits could benefit from new federal funds  MONEY MAKEOVER: Byfield couple tries to balance retirement and largesse  SPENDING SMART: Don’t go broke to get hitched | Savvy shoppers can find the perfect engagement ring without draining their bank account  JOB DOC: Retail marketing strategies can help job seekers sell themselves  More Business  Untouchable | What a collector loses (and gains) in the age of music downloading  More ways for the blind, deaf to take in theater  A different kind of mash-up | Bands and artists share space and spontaneity  Real men don’t star in movies | That is, unless they’re George Clooney, or Australian, or older than 55. Can Hollywood fill the manliness gap?  The emperor’s clothes, new and old | Kurosawa’s classic works get an elegant repackaging  More Living  More Arts  GLOBE EDITORIAL: Patrick owes sinking Lawrence a dose of tough love  GLOBE EDITORIAL: Teachers’ gifts: an apple, not an Apple  GLOBE EDITORIAL: ACORN’s unfair trial-by-video  JOAN VENNOCHI: A love is measured by its loss  JEFF JACOBY: Throw out the race card  WARD SUTTON: The vagueness of hope  LESLIE NICHOLSON AND GREG SHELL: Schools struggle, students lose  More Editorial/Opinion