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Afghan war cost grips both parties

Farah Stockman, Globe Staff — 2009-11-30T06:29:48Z

A day before he is scheduled to announce a new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama is under increasing pressure to explain how his administration intends to pay the rising costs of military operations in Afghanistan, which average about $3.6 billion per month.

Up against the clock in Senate race

Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff — 2009-11-30T06:10:20Z

With two televised debates this week and furious get-out-the-vote efforts, four Democrats enter the crucial drive to the Dec. 8 special primary with dual challenges - to awaken the interest of the electorate and to market themselves as worthy heirs to the Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy.

New England sending a crowd to climate talks

Beth Daley, Globe Staff — 2009-11-30T06:09:43Z

Last spring, when many people were still only dimly aware of the world climate summit planned for Copenhagen, Josh Minney, a Northeastern University senior, stayed up much of the night writing a paper justifying why he should be allowed to go. He spent months after that trying to raise money and plotting details of a trip he felt could be ...

Pop-up stores: Now you see them, now you don’t

Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff — 2009-11-30T05:46:23Z

By 5 p.m. on a recent Friday, a gray curtain was hiding the computers and photocopiers stuffed in the corner of a Fort Point photography and production studio. In their place, a bar had sprung up, a DJ had started spinning house music, and clothing racks in makeshift aisles burst with selections from Stil, Riccardi, Portobello Road, and local designers.