Forget that Hollywood hunk with a mug full of five o’clock shadow. Most American women have little desire to canoodle and snog with a fuzzy galoot. So concludes a new survey cited by Gillette, the razor brand with Boston roots. After pondering the results, Gillette researchers asked, “Is stubble killing the kiss?” According to Gillette, there’s circumstantial evidence that kissing is on the decline, and ill-shaved men may be a big reason why. Mercifully, Gillette offers an arsenal of razors designed to turn a whiskered gent into a kissable smoothie. Munchkins in Malibu? The Boston Kreme doing a star turn in LA? Dunkin’ Donuts going Hollywood? Such could soon be the case. Dunkin’ Donuts, a local icon of coffee and hand-held cuisine, said Wednesday that it is expanding to Southern California. In a press release, Canton-based Dunkin’ Donuts said that is recruiting multi-unit franchisees for Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, and Orange counties and expects restaurants in these markets will begin to open in 2015. Japan Airlines will fly a Boeing 777 from Tokyo to Boston Thursday instead of a 787, after an emergency landing of a 787 operated by All Nippon Airways prompted both airlines to ground their Dreamliners Wednesday for safety checks. For Japan Airlines, or JAL, concerns about the 787, also known as the Dreamliner, meant canceling its Tokyo-Boston flights scheduled for Wednesday. The 777, which is larger and less fuel-efficient than the 787, will fly into Logan International Airport Thursday, stay overnight, and then fly out on Friday. A stronger housing market and robust consumer spending should help the economy heading into 2013, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston chief Eric Rosengren is expected to say at a speech in Providence Tuesday morning, while also cautioning against too much “fiscal austerity” by the federal government. Rosengren is scheduled to make his first economic policy speech of the new year before the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. MetLife will pay a $50,000 penalty and refund an undetermined amount of money to customers to settle allegations it imposed costly surcharges on Massachusetts drivers who were found not at fault in auto accidents. In detailing an agreement reached with Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance Company, state attorney general Martha Coakley said Tuesday that some customers who filed accident claims were improperly penalized even after a state appeals board had ruled they were not responsible for causing the crashes. Care.com, a Waltham company that helps both consumers and employees of corporate clients get access to child care and other services, has bought Parents in a Pinch in an acquisition that will allow it to offer additional services and broaden its customer base. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Parents in a Pinch provides back-up child care services. The primary business of Care.com is to connect families with caregivers. The company offers a suite of online tools that list and sort providers of child care, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, tutoring, and other services. Massachusetts residents who lost their homes to foreclosure between 2008 and 2011 have until Friday to apply for a one-time payment connected to a $25 billion national mortgage settlement reached by attorneys general and five major lenders. The estimated 21,000 state residents eligible to receive between $1,500 and $2,000 risk losing out on the payment if they fail to act this week, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. | 
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