Facebook is key to year’s IPO market
If the social network goes public as anticipated, how it fares could influence whether many other companies - including nine in Mass. - take the leap this year.
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Smaller lineup of Republican candidates meet for debate
With just five days before a crucial primary, a narrowed five-person field will gather in Myrtle Beach tonight to desperately try to alter the trajectory of Mitt Romney.
In remembering King, speakers call for faith and action
Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Thomas Menino, and other speakers recalled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life today at an annual breakfast celebrating King’s legacy.
State Police DNA techniques unlock Mediterranean secrets
A Mass. archeologist is using crime-solving DNA methods to reveal what ancient Greeks carried in the clay pots they stacked in the hulls of ships.
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Opinion
Faith reduced to caricature
A once-marginal version of extremely conservative Catholicism has lately come into its own by linking up with far right-wing evangelical Protestantism, creating a powerful new political movement, writes James Carroll.
Jon Huntsman drops out, endorses Romney
The former Utah governor ended his bid for the presidency today. “I believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat Barack Obama,” said Huntsman.
Lucy Berrington
Is the American dream still available?
As the US appears to be falling short of its long-held aspirations, we can ask whether today's immigrants are arriving at the party as it's winding down.
“This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time in our nation’s history.”
Jon Huntsman
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With Gardner museum’s new wing, landscaping makes a statement
With fresh plantings, the museum grounds are treated like an art form.
Metro
Four-alarm fire damages Brookline apartment building
It took firefighters several hours to evacuate the brownstone and surrounding buildings and douse the flames in the Beacon Street building.
Politics
Huntsman’s exit from GOP race shows strength of Romney
Jon Huntsman’s decision to end his presidential candidacy underscores the emerging futility of the campaigns embodied by the remaining challengers to frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Business
Bioartificial organs may ease need for donors
Experimental trachea transplants could lead to a nascent synthetic organ transplant industry.
Sports
Plenty of bad blood between Patriots and Ravens
Based on their brief but intense history, there’s a lot of animosity between New England and Baltimore, who face off in the AFC Championship this Sunday.
Health and wellness
G force
The doctor prescribes clean air
Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston Medical Center, is an expert on asthma and air pollution.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
‘Alcatraz’ a new island of mystery
The island of “Lost’’ and the famous prison exist in different worlds, but “Alcatraz’’ has a drop of story DNA from previous J.J. Abrams efforts.
Ideas
“The problem, as Shoup and his allies see it, is that parking on the street is simply too desirable. Because spaces are so cheap, drivers have a powerful incentive to spend time hunting for them.”
Leon Neyfakh on the case for the $6 parking meter