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What’s likely to make news in 2012

Time to lift your gaze to the year ahead: The election, culture, technology, and more

By Bryan Marquard

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 01, 2012

Take a deep breath. Better yet, fill your lungs with short, sharp, staccato bursts of oxygen. If the year that evaporated at midnight was a prelude, you’ll need all the adrenaline you can get to face the next one. The year promises a heady mix of old-made-new and startlingly new turned suddenly old. As 2012 takes its first breaths, pause to consider some of what lies ahead, from culture to politics, technology, the economy, and sports.

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