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Airstrike kills 11 Afghan children, officials say

The airstrike occurred during fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban militants that left at least 20 dead.

Kevin Garnett (right) and Paul Pierce (behind Garnett) are pictured on the floor two hours before the start of the game.

Wizards at Celtics | 6 p.m.

Garnett, Pierce to start tonight

Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce were named in the Celtics’ starting lineup. Both players have been off the court due to ankle injuries.

Will Middlebrooks celebrated in the dugout after hitting a home run off Dave Bush in the seventh inning, his third of the game.

Red sox 13, Blue Jays 0

Red Sox erupt in Toronto

The Red Sox hit six home runs, including three by Will Middlebrooks, and Jon Lester pitched seven scoreless innings.

Gronkowski has infection and could need more surgery

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski may have an infection in his left arm where he has already had more than one surgery.

Guests gathered last September for a dinner in a field at Pete’s Greens in Greensboro, Vermont; it was organized by Outstanding in the Field, which puts on farm dinners across North America.

Natalie Stultz

Globe magazine

Find a farm dinner and pull up a chair

New England has a wide variety of agriculture-related tourism options, and on-the-farm dinners using just-picked produce seem to be the trendiest right now.

Syrian rebel fighters posed for a photo after several days of intense clashes with the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria, in October.

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Should America let Syria fight on?

In an unsettling way of seeing the catastrophic civil war, a drawn-out conflict might serve the US interest.

TOM KEANE | Boston’s broken cabs

Change is coming, and it’s with smartphone apps

The solution to end Boston’s dysfunctional, corrupt taxicab system is not some new mix of stronger rules and tougher regulations. Rather, the system itself needs to be blown apart.

The Schifters plan to move their buildings back from the shore in a never-ending battle with erosion.

On Chappaquiddick, a battle against ocean erosion

A homeowner on the island is moving a large house inland in the face of precipitous erosion.

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South Boston politicians have fought to keep preserve the Marine Industrial Park for manufacturing, fish processing, and other blue collar work.

Quiet deal done on Boston’s last frontier
Jason Walker of CyPhy

Drone firms struggle for acceptance
Former Montreal Expos baseball player Warren Cromartie is part of an effort to bring back Major League Baseball to Montreal.

Sunday baseball notes

Montreal is exploring a major league return
Some of Mark Rappaport’s film materials are stored in the office of Ray Carney’s lawyer.

BU caught in middle as filmmaker, professor feud
Calle Cronk waits anxiously at her Norwell home for visiting nurse Pat Hayes (left) to draw blood and do other routine health checks.

Hope for Caroline | Norwell

Town rallies behind ill 5-year-old
Patrice Bergeron

Sunday Hockey Notes

Bergeron must weigh price being paid
Artistic director Anthony Trecek-King works with the Boston Children’s Chorus at the Institute of Contemporary Art, with accompanist Sarah Koonce.

family entertainment

Children’s Chorus crowns 10th year
Cycling siblings Tom and Laura DiNardo on the final day in Fitzwilliam, N.H., where the family noted the first sign for Boston.

A family bike trip from Montreal to Boston
The Golden Gate Bridge’s main towers are 746 feet high.

Cities in the States

Three days in San Francisco
It helps to move the ball around and tire your opponent out, says Paul Mathieson, the head squash pro at Dover Squash and Fitness in Natick.

On the Job

For coach, a ‘physical game of chess’

Does Boston need a CEO as mayor?
Paul Bernon and Sam Slater’s indie comedy “Drinking Buddies” was just picked up for distribution.

Young Massachusetts film producers finding early success

Sports

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David Ortiz was with the Red Sox before their Opening Day game at Yankee Stadium.

Ortiz scheduled to play extended game

David Ortiz, who is rehabbing a tendon injury, will play and extended spring training game Monday and could be with Pawtucket on Thursday.

Metro

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Bill Walczak brings a different sort of resume to a race thus far dominated by candidates who hold elected office.

Bill Walczak jumps into race for Boston mayor

The community organizer becomes the fifth major declared candidate in the race to replace Mayor Menino.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

An eloquence born of pain

JEFF JACOBY

Boston’s taxi industry deserves better

JOANNA WEISS

Left’s money play on the environment

Amazon’s same-day service is just the beginning of a new wave of experimentation.

Innovation Economy

Delivering a new threat to retailers
Tiger Woods

Christopher L. Gasper

Tiger Woods needs to win a major
Steve Lynch is right — he is not the pick of the Democratic party establishment.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Lynch, the party outsider

Bob Ryan

Frozen Four breaks from tradition
Maria Rindenello plays harp with Boston’s Discovery Ensemble.

RENÉE LOTH

The millennial generation, in A flat
Courtney Lewis, 28, is the music director and conductor.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Discovery Ensemble keeps the music alive
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino
Coach Norm Bazin has goaltender Conor Hellebuyck and the UMass-Lowell team in the Frozen Four.

Kevin Cullen

UMass-Lowell hockey is soaring

SCOT LEHIGH

What are Markey, Lynch promising to interest groups?

Nation & World

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Afghan forces rushed to the scene of car bomb blast in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.

6 Americans killed in attacks in Afghanistan

Militants killed six Americans, including a diplomat, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks on Saturday.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

President Obama

Obama says plan for budget is practical

The president said his soon-to-be released budget is not his “ideal plan” but offers “tough reforms.”

Business

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Fay Donohue, Susan Windham-Bannister, and Helene Solomon.

Career-defining moments of three top women executives

The Globe asked women business leaders to recount the decisions that made their careers.

Family Entertainment | Arts & Movies

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In “Tappin’ Thru Life,” Maurice Hines looks back on a passion for tap that began when he was tiny.

Maurice Hines reflects on past in ‘Tappin’ Thru Life’

The show traces Hines’s six decade-plus career and is a tribute to his brother Gregory, who died in 2003.

Travel

Essay

The author’s sons, Brendan, Aidan, and Evan Glenn, wearing the national dress, and the family’s driver, Kezang, right, head for school.

Shangri-la or not, Bhutan leaves you smiling

With weather that can freeze, soak, and bake you all in a day, Bhutan is a place of seeming contradictions.

Books

Book review

James Salter .

‘All That Is’ by James Salter

The book follows a man’s tumble through life from the deck of a destroyer to the deck of a weekend house in Long Island.

Magazine

The cover for the April 7 2013 issue

The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
The cover for the March 31 2013 issue

A living room design for grown-ups

The cover for the March 24 2013 issue

Azores, a perfect destination for Boston travelers
The cover for the March 17 2013 issue

Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?

Opinion

“No one imagines that City Hall should decide the number of bookstores or florists Boston needs; an official ceiling on the number of cabs is no less irrational.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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From the Archives | Photo gallery

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No matter how the fans are feeling about the Red Sox, devotees fill Fenway excited to cheer on the home team for the first game of each year.

Ideas

“Tax season doesn’t have to feel like a root canal. According to a group of tax scholars, Americans could just as easily take pride in paying our share, and the government ought to be trying to help get us there.”

Leon Neyfakh, on the joy of taxes