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Taliban vow revenge after ‘inhumane attack’

US-led forces in Afghanistan have stepped up security after an American soldier allegedly shot to death 16 civilians.

Both sides rest in Mattapan massacre trial

Closing arguments in the 2010 murders of four people - including a 2-year-old boy - will be heard Tuesday.

Record warmth expected today

Boston could see another warm-weather record today, with temperatures expected to climb past 70 degrees.

Charter school’s layoffs raise ire

The Smith Leadership Academy charter school community in Dorchester was in an uproar following the layoffs of the principal and five other employees.

Santorum says Romney untruthful on health law

Rick Santorum accused Mitt Romney of not telling the truth about his support for a federal health insurance mandate based on Massachusetts law.

Midnight fitness class tailored to restaurant workers

Bodytalk Factory, a North End training studio, offers a new restorative and postural strength class at midnight on Sundays.

Suzie Dagenais, general manager at restaurant jm Curley, said she thinks restaurant workers sometimes falsely believe their jobs are exercise enough.

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Bodytalk Factory owner Astrid Bengston helped Suzie Dagenais, a restaurant general manager, during a late night fitness class.

To fit the unorthodox schedules of its clients, the fitness class meets only at midnight on Sundays.

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To fit the unorthodox schedules of its clients, the fitness class meets only at midnight on Sundays.

Suzie Dagenais, general manager at restaurant jm Curley, said she thinks restaurant workers sometimes falsely believe their jobs are exercise enough.

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Students are put through a series of exercises to loosen muscles and improve posture and alignment of the shoulder blades, spine, and hips.

Suzie Dagenais said she thinks restaurant workers sometimes falsely believe their jobs provide sufficient exercise.

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Suzie Dagenais said she thinks restaurant workers sometimes falsely believe their jobs provide sufficient exercise.

Bengston said the most common complaints from restaurant workers are tension in the upper neck and lower back and knee problems.

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Bengston said the most common complaints from restaurant workers are tension in the upper neck and lower back and knee problems.

Students made good-natured jokes and encouraged each other to stay with difficult positions.

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Students made good-natured jokes and encouraged each other to stay with difficult positions.

G Cover

Taking a break from eating

New research is looking at short-term fasting as a way to boost healing and fight diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer.

Bob Ryan

What to expect from NCAA Tournament

In theory, everyone wants to win the thing, but let’s get serious. The pool of conceivable winners is probably no bigger than six or seven.

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Boston, a Comedy Capital

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Inside The Boston Globe

MUSIC REVIEW

Van Halen, David Lee Roth still deliver

Brandon Wood, left, Draymond Green and the Michigan State Spartans won the Big Ten tournament on Sunday, and then earned the No. 1 seed in the West bracket.

NCAA Tournament

Road to the Final Four: Meet the teams

Teacher Katy Burns at work with Pedro Veras and Oscar Coello (right).

Deaf students new to US find their footing

A Modiv phone app and a hand-held scanner.

Smartphone apps may help retail scanning catch on

PocketFinder Personal GPS Locator by Location Based Technologies Inc.

tech lab plus

Samsung phone is hard to kill

Start-up aims to be the Twitter of video

Education-tech ecosystem grows in Boston

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Why Mitt Romney is going the distance

Drivers get a break as parking tickets decline

Former A’s closer Andrew Bailey once thought he was headed to Wall Street, but that was before he detoured to the All-Star Game and now Boston.

For Andrew Bailey, an unlikely road to Red Sox

Wynn built casino fortune with bold designs, tenacity

LONG GRAIN: Pad see ew with noodles from scratch and ingredients from nearby to Camden.

explore new england

10 meals worth the mileage

Metro

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DiMasi loses bid to stay in R.I. prison

A judge ordered former House speaker Salvatore DiMasi returned to a Kentucky prison.

Business

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Rahul Yarala is executive director at Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown.

Harnessing the winds of change

The sprawling Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown aims to help the wind industry develop turbines better able to survive blizzards and other tests of nature.

Columnists

JULIETTE KAYYEM | WEATHERING CALLS FOR US-IRAN CONFLICT

Tough poses in a political theater

Adrian Walker

Off course in Cambridge

Dion Waiters (above) and Syracuse are the No. 1 seed in the East.

Bob Ryan

What to expect from NCAA Tournament

Innovation Economy

Boston dreams head west

Joanna Weiss

Contraception, the economic miracle drug

GARETH COOK

Community chest

Although paralyzed, shooting victim Marcus Hurd, questioned by attorney John Amabile in Suffolk Superior Court last week, says he accepts the code of the streets.

Joan Vennochi

As victims accept ‘code,’ more victims are created

Jeff Jacoby

Medallion system shackles cabbies

LOVE LETTERS

Her boyfriend’s ex keeps calling and calling and calling...

Christopher L. Gasper

Seguin is causing idol talk

Adrian Walker

Church, lender need to talk

SCOT LEHIGH

Maybe it’s not Mitt’s fault

Nation & World

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Families released a paper lantern in Natori, Japan, Sunday in honor of victims on the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation last year.

Japan marks 1st anniversary of quake, tsunami

Grieving families gathered Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed almost 20,000 people and caused a huge radiation leak.

Politics

Cambridge couple gets prize-winning dinner with Obama

Mitch and Judy Glassman joined two other couples for dinner last Thursday at a Washington restaurant with the president and first lady Michelle Obama.

Sports

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Harvard draws No. 12 seed, to play Vanderbilt

The only suspense Sunday held for the Crimson was their seeding, opponent, and destination. They will open in Albuquerque on Thursday.

Arts

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Opera Review

Soprano Sarah Coburn as Rosina and baritone Jonathan Beyer as Figaro in Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘‘The Barber of Seville.’’

BLO returns to the familiar with amiable ‘Barber of Seville’

Unlike the more experimental BLO productions of “Carmen’’ and “Macbeth,’’ this one has no interpretive agenda for Rossini’s timelessly effervescent comedy.

Health and wellness

G Force

“So many people [in the Dominican Republic] are affected by arthritis — people who want to be able to walk without continuous pain, just to get a job,” said Dr. Mercedes Concepcion.

Mission of healing is joint effort

Dr. Mercedes Concepcion is a leader of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s annual, weeklong orthopedic surgery mission in the Dominican Republic.

Spring Style Magazine

SPECIAL MAGAZINE

Spring Style

The season’s freshest fashion feels airy and easy — think fluttery shapes, pretty prints, and nothing too structured or serious.

Magazine

The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Mar 11, 2012

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out

The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Mar 4, 2012

Putting college degrees to work

The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

Feb 26, 2012

24 hours in Kendall Square

The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Feb 19, 2012

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected

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