Microsoft unveils tablet to compete with Apple’s iPad

Microsoft’s Surface tablet, which will be available in two versions later this year, features a kickstand to hold it upright and a keyboard that is part of its cover.

Roger Clemens spoke outside federal court in Washington, D.C.

Roger Clemens acquitted of all charges in perjury case

A jury found the former Red Sox pitcher didn’t lie to Congress about using performance enhancing drugs.

Embattled RCC president agrees to step down

Roxbury Community College president Terrence Gomes retired amid questions about reporting of campus crime and financial aid delays.

Scott Brown accepts Kennedy debate with conditions

Senator Scott Brown said he will accept the debate on the condition Vicki Kennedy stay neutral in the election and MSNBC drop out as the sponsor.

MASS Design Group’s Michael Murphy (left) and Alan Ricks.

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The architects of a new kind of health care

The young architects behind MASS Design are bringing their philosophy to health-care projects around the world, from Rwanda and Uganda to Haiti and back home.

Thousands of people filled the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on the first day of the BIO International Convention, a global event showcasing some of the most innovative and advanced biotechnology in the world.

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FDA drug review proposal draws critics at BIO convention

The plan, unveiled today, aims to make the agency’s review criteria for new drug candidates more consistent.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio industry

Biological advancements have tremendous benefits to our health, energy supplies, and global food supplies. But there is a darker side to the bio-industry.

Daily Dose

Acupuncture closer to being widely accepted

The technique outperformed a placebo in a small but well-designed study focusing on measurable results.

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

The Action for Boston Community Development’s headquarters will be dedicated in honor of Bob Coard, a singular Boston personality who brought the agency stability.

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Valentine no longer in comfort of TV booth

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President Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine.”

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Panic sets in at the White House

Parents of slain student try to move on

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The long, strange quest to detect plant consciousness

Watergate remembered

Nixon man is suspect in bugging try
Drake performed at Comcast Center in Mansfield. His second album, released in November, became one of the biggest of 2011.

Music Review

Drake wows by sticking to the script
Cary Tedder and Jacquelyn Piro Donovan in “Hello, Dolly!’’ at North Shore Music Theatre.

Stage Review

Slightly shifted focus in ‘Hello, Dolly!’
After some games at Turner Field in Atlanta, kids get to run the bases.

Kid friendly

10 top US baseball parks for families

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Theater audiences are growing older

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Ryan Kalish, right, got a hand from Red Sox third base coach Jerry Royster in the seventh after hitting an RBI single.

Ryan Kalish is the winner Red Sox need

Kalish, who had a key RBI Sunday to help produce a win, brings a vitality to the lineup the Sox have lacked.

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Cornell Smith

No bail for suspect in slaying of NU student

Cornell Smith, who allegedly killed 22-year-old Rebecca Payne in 2008, was arraigned on first-degree murder charges.

Columnists

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio industry

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

Tech Lab Plus

SpareOne’s emergency cellphone gets high marks

Innovation Economy

Lighting the way for better bulbs

Dan Shaughnessy

Valentine no longer in comfort of TV booth

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Vulgar speech can’t be banned, but should be curbed

joan vennochi

Another Kennedy spin?

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Still a long way to go for gay youth

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

The word from dads at home

Dan Shaughnessy

Some bad vibrations at Wrigley Field
Verastem executives (from left) Robert Forrester, Robert Weinberg, and Christoph Westphal.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money
Actor Robert Young, the perfect dad in “Father Knows Best,” is surrounded by his television family.

Beverly Beckham

The things today’s dads do

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Scott Forstall, an Apple senior vice president, announced last week that in the fall iPhones would no longer carry Google maps but have Apple’s own system built in.

Apple enters battle with Google on mobile maps

Starting this fall, iPhones will no longer carry Google maps but instead will have Apple’s own map service built in.

Politics

Mitt Romney refused to say what he would do about President Obama’s immigration order if he is elected president.

Romney criticizes Obama’s immigration order

His relationship with Latino voters still tenuous, Mitt Romney refused to say whether he would revoke the order affecting more than 800,000 illegal immigrants.

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Head of Greece's radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras (left) shook hands with the conservative New Democracy party's leader and winner of Greece's general election Antonis Samaras during a meeting at the parliament in Athens on Monday.

Probailout coalition likely in Greece

An agreement to form a coalition government appears close, but negotiations were pushed to a second day.

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MUSIC REVIEW

Rascal Flatts (above, at the 2012 CMA Music Festival) headlined the annual Country 102.5 festival Saturday at the Comcast Center.

Rascal Flatts gets groups going at fest

The band headlined the Country 102.5 festival and its set was an 80-minute no-turbulence zone of radio hits.

Health and wellness

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“Physicians are led to believe that people should defer to their opinion, that they can make the decisions and they should not be challenged or reviewed,” said Dr. Lucian Leape.

Healthy doses of respect in medicine

Dr. Lucian Leape, a founder of the national patient safety movement, recently published two papers about respect in medicine.

“She won’t be forgotten, but it’s sort of too painful here. There are too many memories, too many places she used to go.”

Virginia Payne,  on her daughter, Rebecca, who was killed in her Mission Hill apartment

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“Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.”

John E. Sununu 

Ideas

“Bashar Assad was, relatively speaking, normal, even a bit of a computer nerd. I should know: I spent more time face-to-face with him than perhaps any other American.”

David W. Lesch,  on the making of a Syrian dictator