Malibu’s loss of coolant turns into a torrent within

My husband and I have a four-cylinder 2006 Chevy Malibu with 137,000 miles on it. Since the fall of 2012, the car has been leaking coolant. It's not leaking to the ground and it's not leaking into the engine — oil is clean. Five shops including a Chevy...

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Targeting individual health

In 2014, expect medicine to get personal. Doctors and researchers around Boston are working to make drugs and health care delivery more individualized than ever. And patients will play a bigger role both in medical research and in their own health care,...

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DPU may generate regs for electric vehicle charging

The state Department of Public Utilities has started investigating the possible regulation of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel. Though there isn't a huge number of electric vehicles on the road today, the DPU considers their widespread adoption as...

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Boeing contract cuts into local labor influence

SEATTLE — A new labor contract that was approved in a close vote by Boeing machinists secures a major airplane contract for the Seattle area, but it also moves workers away from pensions. National union leaders, the state's governor and the company...

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Price of bluefin tuna nosedives at Tokyo auction

TOKYO — Sushi restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid 7.36 million yen (about $70,000) for a 507-pound (230-kilogram) bluefin tuna in the year's celebratory first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji market on Sunday, just 5 percent of what he paid a year earlier despite...

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Fed chairman, farm bill on Congress' to-do list

Congress' agenda for 2014 extends from must-passed legislation and nominations to several maybes in a politically charged election year. MUST DO: —Senate confirmation of Janet Yellen to become chairman of the Federal Reserve. A vote is scheduled for...

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Dubai developer Nakheel to pay $1.1B debt in 2014

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The indebted builder of Dubai's palm-shaped islands says it plans to make early debt repayments of 4 billion dirhams, or $1.1 billion, this year. Nakheel said in a statement Sunday that strong real estate growth and improved...

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Selling social media clicks becomes big business

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore "click farms," where workers tap, tap, tap the thumbs up button, view videos or retweet...

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Wave of wearable gadgets expected at CES event

LAS VEGAS — Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart entrepreneurs and major manufacturers such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Sony certainly hope so. Gadgets that you snap, buckle or fasten to your body are already marketed...

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Plane slides off runway at NYC's JFK; no injuries

NEW YORK — A plane from Toronto slid into snow as it turned onto a taxiway after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, leading the airport to temporarily suspend flights from taking off and landing because of icy runways. No injuries...

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