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Dewey Square after the Dec. 10 eviction of Occupy Boston

Just before its disappearance, Occupy Boston was the oldest and largest of the remaining Occupy protests that have, since September, not only changed the geography of American parks in hundreds of towns and cities around America, but the Americans’ political and social dialogue.

Finally, physicists may have gotten a long-awaited prize with the latest data release from the Large Hadron Collider on Dec. 13, which show a possible signal for the elusive Higgs boson at around 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

Two separate experiments confirm a small rise in the number of certain particle decay events occurring in a particular energy range. This could be a sign of the Higgs particle, which is a manifestation of the Higgs field required to give subatomic particles their mass.

The ATLAS experiment sees a signal consistent with a 126 GeV Higgs while the CMS collaboration reports an...