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THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015 BOSTONGLOBE.COMMETRO Metro Kevin Cullen Mission to Pluto enters nail-biting stage MIT professor is hoping for picture-perfect results today In praise of team players known lurking in the final moments," said Binzel, a member of the mission's science team. At approximately 7:49 a.m., New Horizons is expected to make its closest approach to Pluto, coming within 7,767 miles of its icy, rocky surface, according to NASA. But scientists won't learn for another 13 hours whether the mission was a success. Because the spacecraft can't make observations and transmit information back to Earth simultaneously, it will put all of its energy into focusing on Pluto's surface and collecting data as it zooms past, a sequence Binzel likened to a carefully choreo- NASA, Page B5 By Steve Annear GLOBE STAFF MIT professor Richard Binzel will be waiting with bated breath until he gets word Tuesday night that New Horizons, a NASA spacecraft set to sail by Pluto during its mission 3 billion miles from Earth, has done its job of capturing detailed images of the dwarf planet. When you're traveling at speeds of up to 30,000 miles per hour, he said, hitting something as minuscule as a grain of sand in outer space could destroy the vessel, ending a painstaking exploration that began years ago.

"You can't be sure there isn't something un On Saturday, Dick Flavin, the poet laureate of the Boston Red Sox, was on the same bill at Fenway Park with Brock Holt, whose versatility made him his team's only representative in baseball's All-Star Game. On Tuesday, a NASA spacecraft is expected to come within 7,767 miles of Pluto, which is 3 billion miles from Earth. PHOTOS BY MARY MURPHYPOOL Insurers' cost data websites lacking Health plans cite works in progress Report evaluates price transparency By Felice J. Freyer GLOBE STAFF The state's three biggest health insurers are doing a mediocre job of meeting a state requirement to give consumers estimates of what their care will cost, according to an evaluation being released Tuesday by the advocacy group Health Care for All. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mas-sachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Tufts Health Plan are obeying the law, but all need to step up their game online if they want to help consumers make prudent choices, said Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, executive director of Health Care for All.

"There was an awful lot of room for improvement," Whitcomb Slemmer said of the insurers' cost-estimating websites. "Not one was intuitive." For example, on each of the sites it was not obvious how to locate the page containing price information. Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim had no information about the cost of inpatient procedures. Blue Cross gave an estimate of the total cost of a service but, for most enrollees, did not specify how much the patient would have to pay. The price transparency requirement is a key feature of the state's landmark 2012 law that was intended to control health care costs.

With advance information about prices, the theory holds, consumers will shop around for the best value. Pricing is especially important to consumers as health plans increasingly require patients to pay a greater share of their costs. Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers are all required to pro-INSURERS, Page B4 Jody Tempest, daughter of Raymond Tempest, and his former wife, Jane, reacted to Judge Daniel A. Procaccini as he vacated Tempest's conviction for the 1982 slaving of Doreen Picard of Woonsocket. Man's murder conviction is vacated after 23 years Rhode Island judge rules defendant was deprived of his right to a fair trial "They bring folks in and give them a tour and a talk and I was just very struck by the kid," Flavin said.

"He's down to earth, not full of himself like some other ballplayers. He's like a Mr. Everyman." Flavin handed Holt a copy of his new book, "Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses," which hits the stores Tuesday and is, like Holt's improbable Ail-Star selection, one of the few bright spots in this so-far annus horribilis for the local nine. Holt looked at the book and looked up like a kid who just got a pro ballplayer's autograph. "What makes him special is that in a day and age of specialization, he can play every position," Flavin said.

"And he doesn't complain about being taken out of his comfort zone. He does what he can to help the team." Flavin says the Sox player that Holt most resembles is the late Billy Goodman. Goodman was one of the most versatile players of his generation, playing every position except pitcher and catcher. He had to back up Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr when he first made the Red Sox in 1947. A couple years later, he made the All-Star team as a first baseman.

In 1950, he lost his starting position and only got one back after Ted Williams got hurt in that year's All-Star Game. Goodman replaced Williams in left field and won the American League batting title with a torrid second half. Later, Goodman made the All-Star team as a second baseman. "That sort of versatility," Flavin said, "that adaptability, is rare." So is Holt's attitude, at least among millionaire athletes. But, in the real world, there are Brock Holts everywhere.

People who go to work every day and don't throw a hissy fit if they're asked to do something they didn't do the day before. Every office, where someone can fix the copier and talk to customers with equal aplomb, has a Brock Holt. Every school, where a substitute can segue from biology to Beowulf without missing a beat. Every hospital, every police station, fire station, ambulance depot, every DPW office. There are journeymen and women in every line of work, people who can do a little bit of everything in a pinch, somebody who goes the extra mile, and Brock Holt's selection resonates with them, with all of us.

When I asked people whether they knew a Brock Holt on their job, they didn't hesitate. There's a nurse, Susan Messer, who works the overnight shift in labor and delivery at Boston Medical Center. She defies sleep deprivation and gets smiles from everybody, patients and co-workers, at the worst of hours. Susan Messer is Brock Holt. There's a Boston cop named Billy Shaw, almost 30 years on the job and not a cynical bone in his body.

He has done everything from walking a beat in Rox-bury to locking up drug dealers to teaching in the academy. Every time he got settled with a partner, the bosses asked him to train a young cop, and he never said no, even though he could have. Billy Shaw is Brock Holt. There's a woman up in the Suffolk DA's office, Catherine Rodriguez, who is a paralegal, investigator, and victim-witness advocate. She produces the PowerPoint presentations that prosecutors use at trial.

And she could earn more playing concert piano if she chose. Cat Rodriguez is Brock Holt. When storms and disasters strike, and the TV cameras go live to that bunker in Framingham, there's a woman working behind the scenes named Christine Packard who keeps 10 balls in the air at the same time. As Governor Charlie Baker told me, "She makes everybody around her look better than we are." Captain Jim Welsh has done everything in the Boston Fire Department except drive their boat. He was a firefighter on Ladder 15 in the Back Bay, ran Rescue One downtown, did an administrative tour at headquarters, and now he's back in the field, on Boylston Street, CULLEN, Page B2 By Peter Schworm GLOBE STAFF PROVIDENCE A Rhode Island judge vacated the murder conviction of a man who has spent more than 23 years in prison, ruling Monday that improper police procedures and the suppression of favorable evidence deprived him of a fair trial.

Convicted in 1992 of fatally beating 22-year-old Doreen Picard with a lead pipe a decade earlier, Raymond Tempest gave a passing smile as Superior Court Judge Daniel Procaccini announced his decision to a hushed courtroom. Tempest's relatives burst into tears, and many embraced. "Raymond and his family waited 23 years for this day," Michael Kendall said from the courthouse steps after the hearing. "Obviously they are very pleased." Tempest was found guilty of beating Picard in February 1982 after she found him assaulting her landlord in the basement of a triple-decker in Woonsocket. TEMPEST, Page B4 Simone and Ron Picard Doreen Picard's parents and a relative, listened solemnly as the judge vacated Tempest's conviction.

SUSPECT SHOT Cause of monkey deaths retracted Journal says Harvard center may have neglected primates By Laura Krantz GLOBE STAFF A scholarly journal has retracted an article published last year that suggested monkeys at the New England Primate Research Center died of illness rather than neglect by their caretakers, the journal has announced. The journal, Veterinary Pathology, posted an explanation online June 4, saying the authors of the paper chose to retract it because new information suggests the monkeys at the Harvard Medical School facility may have instead had inadequate access to water. The retraction follows comments by the journal's publishers in April saying they were scrutinizing the paper after the Globe raised questions about its findings and the center's former director questioned the article's integrity, saying he believes that many of the monkeys included in the research had been treated in an inhumane PRIMATES, Page B4 SCOTT EISEN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE Investigators studied the car of a suspect who was shot by a police officer during an undercover drug operation Monday morning in Lynn. B3.