Backlog in parole decisions follows overhaul at agency

Governor Patrick’s revamped Parole Board has voted to grant early release to 17 serious criminal offenders, but the panel has not notified any of the inmates or the victims’ families.

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Foxborough, Krafts battle over billboards

A disagreement over who controls two billboards near Gillette is part of a dispute that has damaged the 27-year relationship between the town’s government and The Kraft Group.

A vehicle crossing in Kyrgyzstan has monitors to detect nuclear materials that could fall into the hands of terrorists.

Nuclear security effort faces uncertain future

Obama administration officials, citing fiscal restraints and a need to reassess the campaign, want to cut funding for a major nuclear smuggling project by 65 percent.

Amanda Johnson at her workstation at the TripAdvisor office in Newton.

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Many employees abandon sitting while working

Once quirky outliers in the office, employees who prefer to stand at their desks and in meetings are multiplying in corporate America.

Cardinal heads to a changing Cuba

Cardinal Sean O’Malley prepared to accompany Pope Benedict XVI this week to the communist state, where the Roman Catholic Church has been reborn.

FDA working to trim hospital ‘alarm fatigue’

The FDA is intensifying its scrutiny of monitors and other medical devices in an effort to reduce the ‘‘alarm fatigue’’ that has been linked to hundreds of deaths nationally.

Martin Shires, marketing manager at NCR Corp., demonstrated how to use an ATM that employs videoconferencing technology.

Need a teller at the ATM? Push the button

After years of advances that have allowed customers to do their banking without human interaction, the next step in ATM technology could put people back into the picture.

“When you are standing up, you are on your best game; your switch is turned on.”

Venkat Kolluri,  chief executive of Chitika Inc.

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Inside The Boston Globe

Walt (right), with his brother Malcolm, made gluten-free cookies one Sunday. ‘‘I did so awesome,’’ said Walt, who was diagnosed with autism as a preschooler.

G Cover

How parents are changing autism research

tech lab plus

A little Wi-Fi router goes a long way

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Mourning is shared, and eloquently visible

Daily Dose

Training for a marathon? Consider chi running

For homeless families, hotel is a life in limbo
As the Supreme Court meets Monday to hear three days of arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature health care overhaul, Massachusetts’ own experience with reform will serve as a guidepost.

Health care battle focuses on Mass. model
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Ideas

The truth about the ‘code of the street’

GLOBE MAGAZINE

Spring Travel Special

War of words over Shutesbury library plan
For years, the Menino administration used the nonprofit to collect donations that were akin to rent payments from advertising firms, movie companies, and other commercial entities that used City Hall Plaza and other public land, taking in more than $250,000 in site fees since 2009.

Mayor Menino reveals donors to city charity
The power, the pure hitting are already there with catcher Ryan Lavarnway.

Sunday baseball notes

Lavarnway, Iglesias could offer major help for Sox

Madonna sticks to her guns on ‘MDNA’

Metro

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Choir members sang Sunday at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan, where some church members spoke about last week’s murder trial.

Congregations wrestle with results of Mattapan trial

Prayers for healing sounded as Mattapan residents went to church three days after an acquittal and mistrial in the 2010 slayings of four people in the neighborhood.

Business

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Bruins shoot for digital advantage with network

The new Bruins Digital Entertainment Network will bundle all of their digital, mobile, and social online assets under one brand.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

A new ocean passage, with not enough rules

Yvonne Abraham

Mattapan verdict shows jury system works
Excited supporters cheer when Mitt Romney arrives for a campaign stop at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Rockford, Ill., in March.

Jeff Jacoby

Young voters should flock to GOP

Joan Vennochi

Romney’s Fehrnstrom problem

Gareth Cook

Inconvenient truth

Joanna Weiss

A calculated risk for at-risk kids

Innovation Economy

Mobile payment app aims to create loyalty

Christopher L. Gasper

Power struggle may weaken Red Sox

BOSTON CAPITAL

Bay State Banner publisher’s two hats in bank-church dispute

LAWRENCE HARMON

The case for orphanages

SCOT LEHIGH

The economy, generically oversimplified

bob ryan

For Wisconsin, depth leads to despair

Nation & World

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Lawyers cram for epic review before Supreme Court justices

Lawyers have been training intensively for the upcoming three days of marathon Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law.

Politics

Political Notebook

Rick Santorum says La. win shows he’s viable candidate

The Republican presidential candidate asserted the results show he is a strong contender for the GOP nomination and it is the Romney campaign that is “desperate.’’

Sports

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Bruins 3, Ducks 2

Marty Turco earns first win for Bruins

The Bruins poured three goals down on the Ducks to take a 3-2 victory and wrap up their three-game West Coast trip with a 2-1-0 record.

Health and wellness

G Force

Dr. Ira Byock

Finding a better way to die

Dr. Ira Byock, director of the Palliative Care Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, has just written a new book called ‘‘The Best Care Possible.’’

Arts

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DANCE REVIEW

José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s Sybil Geddes and August Pozgay in “Pagano y No,’’ danced to the music of Aruán Ortiz.

José Mateo inspires ‘Of Worlds Apart’

Mateo’s choreography is vivid, inflecting his contemporary ballet aesthetic with folkloric influences, and Friday night’s performances were solid.

Magazine

The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Montreal: Full of chic charm
The cover for the March 18 2012 issue

Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Putting college degrees to work

Opinion

“If global warming had a number it might be about 660, the anticipated vessels that will traverse the Bering, and pass St. Paul, in 2012 alone.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Even people with no direct experience with street life — whose exposure to the criminal underworld comes mainly from “The Wire” — have a sense that it is governed by its own set of rules and ethics.”

Leon Neyfakh