Romney wins in Puerto Rico

Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum and won all 20 delegates in the island’s Republican primary today, as the field prepares for Tuesday’s contest in Illinois.

Prudential Tunnel closed for NStar repairs

The tunnel was closed to traffic beginning at midnight while NStar crews work to bring it back to permanent power following last week’s Back Bay fire.

Participants in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade included characters from “Star Wars.”

Sunny St. Patrick's parade brings peaceful party

Relatively subdued, the sprawling event was helped by warm, cloudless weather.

Lawyer for Afghan suspect to visit with him Monday

The lawyer for the Army sergeant suspected in the slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers was preparing to meet him amid expectations that charges could be filed soon.

“Physical exercise works for many, many depressed people and seems to have lasting effects, especially if the exercise regime is continued,” said Dr. Irving Kirsch.

G Force

The placebo effect and depression

Dr. Irving Kirsch is associate director of the program in placebo studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

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Challenges behind prenatal exams

As the amount of prenatal screening choices grow, expectant parents are finding it harder to decide which tests are right.

Part of the Sanford Biggers’s installation

ART REVIEW

Music, memory, mystery on view

Smashed-up sounds make great sights in Sanford Biggers’s exhibit at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Don Draper played by Jon Hamm.

What could happen next on ‘Mad Men’

The show’s writers are notoriously stingy with details, but here are our predictions what could happen to our favorite characters — as well as what ought to.

“I don’t think it should be a cakewalk because of the name, of course. But I think he is going places and I would like a photo of him.”

Charlie Shapiro,  on Joseph P. Kennedy III’s race for Congress

Globe Insiders

To Grammar’s House

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/03/16/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/SPRINGCLEANING2.jpg Spring cleaning for grammar rules

Grammar’s House can get a bit cluttered sometimes, often with rules that are capricious, spurious, or flat-out erroneous.

Inside The Boston Globe

Elizabeth Warren presented a satirical magazine spread as US Senator Scott Brown watched.

In South Boston, breakfast roast is on the menu
Josh Crary (left) will run one leg of the Marathon with guide Doug Trudel.

Runners in it for the long haul

At Fort Point studios, artists feel betrayed

For the Kennedy clan, he is Generation Next

London getting up to speed for Olympics

Once a model, state medical board lags badly
While the team’s president/CEO may not have officially signed a new deal, Larry Lucchino said, “I’ve reached an understanding on it, for the most part. I’ll just leave it at that.”

Sunday baseball notes

Red Sox CEO Lucchino sees long-term role with team
Stone tools were found at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania that could be 15,000 to 17,000 years old..

Did the Solutreans settle America first?
Egypt protests

The Internationalist

The lost dream of Egyptian pluralism

Quincy Nang (right) waited to enter the Apple Store in Boston today to purchase the new Apple iPad.

In Boston, Apple fans line up for new iPad

St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some

Movies

Fans hope ‘The Hunger Games’ will deliver

Metro

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Tutor Annie Query talked with Malia Cajuste at the Match Community Day Charter School in Jamaica Plain.

Charter school focuses on teaching youngsters English

The mission of the Match Community Day Charter School in Jamaica Plain is to help youngsters overcome language barriers.

Business

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CNC machinist Computer numerical control machinists like Dustin Kellogg of Tell Tool make $50,000 to $100,000 a year depending on skill level and amount of overtime worked.

Manufacturers seek skilled workers

As manufacturing rebounds and becomes more technical in Massachusetts, skilled workers are now in high demand.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

The road to wisdom

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Not all was lost when Apple bought Quattro

Joanna Weiss | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

Zest up the memoir

Joan Vennochi | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

DiMasi should be so lucky

Gareth Cook

Why do nations fail?

opinion | Jeff Jacoby

On mandate, Romney plays both sides

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

Christopher L. Gasper

Throwing a net around the Bruins’ problems

Love Letters

Should they get engaged before the move-in?

Adrian Walker

Cooking as rehabilitation

opinion | RENÉE LOTH

Mass. assets aren’t rosy for everyone

Lawrence Harmon

A start-up center for Roxbury?

Nation & World

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An image taken off official Syrian television on Sunday shows damaged vehicles following a car bomb in Syria's second largest city of Aleppo, a day after two lethal blasts in Damascus.

Bomb explodes in Syrian city

A bomb exploded Sunday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and in Damascus the government cracked down on rallies marking the one-year anniversary of the uprising.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Put end to oil industry tax breaks, Obama says

President Obama said that Congress should kill tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and help develop alternative sources of energy.

Sports

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NFL notebook

Former St. Louis Rams wide receiver Brandon Lloyd had made no secret of the fact that he wanted to play for the Patriots.

Lloyd, Patriots agree to terms

The Patriots came to terms with receiver Brandon Lloyd, and also signed defensive end/outside linebacker Trevor Scott and receiver Anthony Gonzalez.

Travel

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Glasgow chefs put fresh accents on Scottish fare

Glaswegian chefs have taken creative liberties with fusty standards, swapped fried for fresh and, in the process, exchanged the title “cook’’ for “chef.”

Books

Book review

'Coral Glynn' by Peter Cameron

Characters follow twisting trajectories in this Gothic romantic comedy.

Arts

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The new Grousbeck Center for Students and Technology at Perkins School for the Blind.

Perkins School design addresses multiple senses

Graham Gund’s new addition to the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown brings together in one location a dazzling display of technology.

Magazine

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Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
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Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
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Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square

Opinion

“They say all things must end, but the wrangling over Mitt Romney’s support for an individual health insurance mandate persists without letup.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“If the Solutrean hypothesis becomes widely accepted, it would mean that the sea played a central part in human expansion. And in the matter of ‘who came first,’ it would mean that all the Americas have a new origin story to contend with.”

Gareth Cook