GOP candidates make final Super Tuesday pitches

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul made their final appeals before voting in 10 states begins Tuesday.

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Boston Dynamics running robot sets speed record

A robot called Cheetah galloped 18 miles per hour, a new record for legged robots, the Waltham company said today.

John McCain calls for attacks on Syria

McCain calls for US to lead on Syria airstrikes

Senator John McCain became the first senator to call for airstrikes against Syria, saying President Obama has been too soft on the regime.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner provides a civilized experience

Aboard the airliner, which starts flying out of Boston next month, passengers are bound to notice the incredible amount of light that fills the plane.

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner made its Boston debut on Sunday in the Delta Hangar at Logan Airplort.

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Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner made its Boston debut on Sunday in the Delta Hangar at Logan Airplort.

LED lights run down the length of the plane on the ceiling.

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LED lights run down the length of the plane on the ceiling.

A view out the window from a 787 Dreamliner in flight.

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A view out the window from a 787 Dreamliner in flight.

The airplane starts flying out of Boston on Japan Airlines’ new nonstop route to Tokyo next month.

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The airplane starts flying out of Boston on Japan Airlines’ new nonstop route to Tokyo next month.

The windows dim and brighten at the touch of a button, allowing you to see outside even at their darkest.

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The windows dim and brighten at the touch of a button, allowing you to see outside even at their darkest.

The long, thin carbon fiber wings flex upward about 10 feet when the plane takes off to increase aerodynamics and fuel efficiency.

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The long, thin carbon fiber wings flex upward about 10 feet when the plane takes off to increase aerodynamics and fuel efficiency.

Last week at the Boeing plant in Everett, Wash., hundreds of workers scurried around four 787s in various stages of assembly.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner will start its US run at Logan

The fuel-efficient Dreamliner is making it feasible for airlines to try new long-haul flights. For Boeing, there’s a lot riding on the plane’s inaugural US route, Boston-to-Tokyo.

Wes Welker

Patriots put franchise tag on Wes Welker

The team moved to prevent Welker from reaching unrestricted free agency with the tag, a source said. His contact status is still unsettled, however.

“I don’t want anybody else to feel the way I felt. It scares me how young people start bullying others.”

Daniella Toussaint,  a Brighton High School senior

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Wes Welker

Patriots put franchise tag on Wes Welker

Globe wins digital design awards

Red Sox clubhouse abuse scandal grows

Woman tries for third kidney transplant

From the archives

The first Boston Globe
Instructor Garry Sanon leads a chair exercise class at Kit Clark Senior Services in Dorchester.

G Cover

Stopping age-related muscle loss
Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball’’ does not feature the E Street Band, but it does offer a full band sound as well as some loops and vocal samples.

ALBUM REVIEW

Familiar themes on Springsteen’s ‘Wrecking Ball’

tech lab plus

A new way to see broadcast TV

Wishing upon their iPads

Students collaborate on bullying issues
Paul Mullins

Q&A

Digging up the American consumer

4th Congressional District, meet Sean Bielat. Again.

Metro

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Kimani Washington, a witness in the Mattapan massacre trial, is shown an ammunition clip by lawyer John Amabile in this Feb. 22 photo.

Gun in Mattapan case found in home of key witness

A Boston detective testified today that a .40-caliber handgun linked to the Mattapan massacre was found in the home of the prosecution’s star witness, Kimani Washington.

Business

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Visitors will be able to see how the technologies function in real time.

A working model of efficiency

By year's end, energy research firm Fraunhofer CSE will transform 5 Channel Center into a laboratory of the world’s newest clean-energy technologies.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

NYPD stumbles in terror hunt

Dan Shaughnessy

Legends enhance Red Sox’ latest ‘new day’

Adrian Walker

Diehard neighbors vow to fight homeless housing

Bob Ryan

Celtics earn major points in win

Innovation Economy

Subscription offers new way to commission art
Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger who published revealing photographs that led to the resignation of Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, died last week at 43.

Joanna Weiss

Passing of a provocateur

Jeff Jacoby

Yes, colleges are full of liberal elites

Joan Vennochi

Youth vote no lock for Obama
The scoreboard is truly a blank slate, as Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester warms up before the first exhibition game ever at JetBlue Park, against Northeastern.

Dan Shaughnessy

A change, it seems, amid fastballs from Jon Lester

Gareth Cook

Bridge year

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Incubating ideas from the rank-and-file

Dan Shaughnessy

Valentine managing Red Sox a different way

Nation & World

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Riot police officers cordoned off an opposition rally at Pushkin Square in central Moscow today. The opposition protest drew about 20,000.

Thousands contest Putin’s victory at Moscow rally

Riot police arrested dozens of demonstrators after thousands gathered to protest election returns that showed Vladimir Putin easily winning the presidency.

Politics

Mitt Romney can make headway on Super Tuesday

Romney has a chance to win enough primaries and caucuses not to seal the nomination, but make it unlikely that his remaining rivals can do so themselves the rest of the way.

Sports

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Celtics Notebook

E’Twaun Moore, a rookie guard from Purdue, was believed to be a potential rotation player, but the vast improvement of Avery Bradley has relegated Moore to the inactive list.

Doc Rivers decides to shorten the Celtics bench

The Celtics coach made some big decisions over the All-Star break, with perhaps the most telling that he will rely on fewer players.

Health and wellness

G Force

Liane Young is an associate professor of psychology at Boston College.

Morality in making decisions

Liane Young, an associate professor of psychology at BC, recently won a national award for early-career scientists for her work studying moral decision-making.

Arts

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DANCE REVIEW

‘Weathervane’ a meld of sound, movement

At Tishman Commons in Wellesley College, the group behind “Weathervane’’ made the most of the space, visibly and aurally, with their windswept world premiere.

Magazine

The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square
The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected
The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide

Opinion

“When [gas] prices spiked in the ’70s, the ’90s, or the ’00s, politicians of all stripes were enchanted by gilded promises of synfuels, ethanol, and hydrogen. Today, it’s pond scum.”

John E. Sununu 

Ideas

“The story of St. John’s University reflects the power — and the threat — that such an education still represents to a proud nation that nevertheless hungers for new ideas.”

Patricia Wen  on the lost liberal arts university of China