Facebook prices IPO at $38 per share

Facebook raised $16 billion in the biggest initial public offering by a technology company in history, pricing the shares at the top end of an increased range.

Curt Schilling firm to make $1.1m payment, may miss payroll

Gov. Lincoln Chafee said 38 Studios is paying the $1.1 million it defaulted on this month, while a company spokeswoman said it would be unable to make its payroll this week.

Court clarifies rules on drunken driving sanctions

The state’s highest court ruled that drivers who admit to sufficient facts, but are not convicted, cannot face increased sanctions under Melanie’s Law.

Super PAC abandons plan to link Obama to reverend

After the proposed $10 million campaign was leaked, Mitt Romney condemned it, even though Romney himself mentioned the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright in February.

Mashpee tribe, Taunton agree on casino payments

In addition to $33 million up front, the tribe also promised the city $13 million a year once — and if — the tribe builds and opens its $500 million resort casino.

From “Surviving Progress,’’ a view of Chongqing, China, one of the fast-growing urban areas in the world.

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‘Surviving Progress’ expertly made, intellectually muddled

This Canadian documentary is a slick jeremiad, writes Mark Feeney.

Elizabeth Banks (left) and Brooklyn Decker in “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.’’

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‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’ delivers

The writing is sharp and the performances bright, and there are laughs to be had for those who’ve been there.

Tadanobu Asano (left) and Taylor Kitsch in a scene from “Battleship,” inspired by the game of the same name.

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With ‘Battleship,’ ‘Transformers’ goes to sea

Hasbro’s corporate dreams of duplicating its success with that unabashedly toyetic franchise are precisely what led to “Battleship.”

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/05/17/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Obit Donna Summer.JPEG-07e61--90x90.jpg Disco legend Donna Summer dead at 63

The Dorchester native gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s, and released a number of albums that have reached gold or platinum status.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
June 29, 1944: Harvard President James B. Conant and Reginald Fitz, president of the Alumni Association, led graduates down the steps of Widener Library. With combined military and academic ceremonies illustrating – as Conant remarked in his report to the alumni – “the effect of total war on a university dedicated to the arts of peace,” Harvard observed its 293d commencement. In all schools of the university, Conant conferred only 251 degrees, the smallest number since 1875.

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Implant uses brain signals to control robotic arm
Burlington, MA., May 16, 2012: Kids at the Pine Glen School in Burlington check out their favorite smartphone and/or tablet apps for a story on apps for kids during the Memorial Day holiday. For Business section. Hiawatha Bray is the reporter. Photo by Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe.

Tech Lab

Apps to entertain kids on long car trips
Rafael Reif

MIT taps provost Reif as university president
Andrew Taylor with College Fashionista founder Amy Levin (left) and style blogger Shayna Straus at a clinic.

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12 tips for looking professional at a job interview
The pushcart vendors in Boston’s Haymarket district have resisted new approaches from pre-Big Dig ways.

Opinion | Paul McMorrow

Haymarket pushcart vendors need to embrace change

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes
MassArt fashion graduate Zachary William Allen with Sarah Atwood. Behind them are (from left) Nikita Washington, Caroline Wells, Jess Clements, and Shauna Matthieu. Allen says the designs were influenced by samurai warriors.

Style

Meet some of Boston’s top fashion graduates
Guacamole comes in a number of versions. The best is just avocado, cilantro, salt, and onion.

Dining Out

Painted Burro is raucous, fun, ready to party
The ruby slippers that Dorothy wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Story of Film’ is wildly ambitious

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Upcoming music events around Boston

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Kevin Youkilis has been on the disabled list, and may have to compete with Will Middlebrooks for his job when he returns.

If dealing Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox need to go young

The team is so far from contending that it needs to build prospect depth, Peter Abraham says.

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Medford Housing executive resigning under fire

Robert Covelle’s exit comes one year after allegations of widespread favoritism in hiring and contracting under his leadership.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes

Joan Vennochi

Warren’s voice against Wall Street gets tuned out
President Bush, right, met with the all-male joint chiefs and combatant commanders in 2007; there are still no women combatant commanders.

Juliette Kayyem

Urging women to Be All That You Can’t Be

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
The loss by LeBron James, left, Dwyane Wade and the Heat on Tuesday dropped Miami into a 1-1 tie with the Pacers in the second round of the playoffs.

Bob Ryan

NBA playoffs a big letdown so far

Jeff Jacoby

On health care, state doesn’t know best

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

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Charles Wheelan tells graduates to treat life more as a journey than as a race.

‘10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said’ by Charles Wheelan

He aims to offer solid, if amusing, advice to young people.

Politics

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Mitt Romney, RNC raise $40m in April

The total closes the fund-raising gap with President Obama and reveals a party coalescing around its presumptive nominee.

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Jobless rate lowest since 2008 as Mass. adds 2,500 jobs

April marked the fifth consecutive month of gains for the state. Employers have now added more than 31,000 jobs since the beginning of the year.

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Mary Richardson Kennedy grew up in Hoboken, N.J., the daughter of a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. She had two brothers and four sisters.

RFK Jr.’s estranged wife hanged herself

Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, an architect known for her philanthropic and environmental work who also was hit with drug and alcohol charges, was found dead Wednesday.

Style

MassArt fashion graduate Zachary William Allen with Sarah Atwood. Behind them are (from left) Nikita Washington, Caroline Wells, Jess Clements, and Shauna Matthieu. Allen says the designs were influenced by samurai warriors.

Top fashion graduates from Boston-area colleges

Amid all the cutting and sewing, we found some of the best work from this year’s crop of graduates.

“We were intrigued by the notion of taking this historic board game and making it into a box office worthy cinematic piece of art today.’’

Jameel Spencer, on  the new “Battleship” film

Magazine

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The Boston waterfront has arrived
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Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
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Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
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144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Warren’s message is also undermined by a Democratic president with a JPMorgan Chase account that’s worth between $500,000 and $1 million.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene