Boston University mourned three study-abroad students killed in New Zealand while visiting locations where “The Lord of the Rings” movies were filmed.

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Three students from Boston University were killed Saturday and at least five others injured when their minivan flipped in a New Zealand vacation town, according to the Associated Press. The students were traveling Saturday morning near the town of Taupo, part of a two-van convoy en route to hike the famed Tongariro Crossing. University authorities identified the dead as Daniela Lekhno, Roch Jauberty and Austin Brashears. A fourth student, Margaret Theriault, was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, officials said. Read full article > >

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Three Boston U. students killed in New Zealand van crash

Massachusetts is inching toward health-care legislation that, if successful, could overhaul how the state pays for health care — and save billions in the process . Both the Massachusetts Senate and House have released bills that aim to cut at least $150 billion in health-care costs over the next 15 years. They do so by setting a global cap on health-care spending, under which health-care providers get paid for the quality — rather than quantity — of medicine they provide. Read full article > >

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Massachusetts wants to cut $150 billion in health costs. Can it succeed?

Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. The so-called “Hot Dog Hooker” is out of jail. We'll let you relish in your own puns from here. – NY Post Sun, salt and lime sound like the perfect components for a margarita on the beach. In developing countries, they make up a recipe for cleaner drinking water. – NPR For a cool $25,000, you can dine among Mickey's most elite friends at Disneyland's exclusive members-only restaurant, Club 33. – LA Times Meet Craig Claiborne, the man responsible for America's appetite for restaurant reviews. – New York Times The dreaded four-word question: What’s for dinner, mom? – Boston.com

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Box lunch: Off-menu specials and the Disney dining elite

If the Washington Capitals have to face a Game 7, then let it be in Boston. There’s no better place for a visiting team that is haunted by its own playoff ghosts than a trip to New England, where curses revive themselves and any excuse for pessimism is greeted like a regional holiday. Read full article > >

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Capitals, Bruins seek to be team with demon advantage

This is precisely what the Washington Capitals wanted to avoid — another trip to Boston. Washington failed to take advantage of an opportunity to clinch a first-round series victory in Game 6 on Sunday at Verizon Center, falling, 4-3, to the Bruins in overtime . With Tyler Seguin’s game-winning goal 3 minutes 17 seconds into the extra session, Boston evened the series at three games apiece and forced a winner-take-all Game 7 on Wednesday at TD Garden. Read full article > >

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Stanley Cup playoffs 2012: Bruins edge Capitals in overtime to force Game 7

The Washington Capitals aren’t happy . In fact, they’re downright ticked off at the NHL’s decision to suspend forward Nicklas Backstrom for one game while the Boston Bruins remain unpunished for any of their indiscretions — real or perceived. Read full article > >

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NHL playoffs: Capitals, Bruins trade words in advance of Game 4 Thursday night

The Washington Capitals aren’t happy . In fact, they’re downright ticked off at the NHL’s decision to suspend forward Nicklas Backstrom for one game while the Boston Bruins remain unpunished for any of their indiscretions — real or perceived. Read full article > >

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NHL playoffs: Capitals, Bruins trade words in advance of Game 4 Thursday night

Faced with little public understanding of its modern mission, the U.S. Navy is reaching back 200 years to the War of 1812 in the hopes of bolstering its standing with the American people. This week it launches an ambitious, three-year commemoration to mark the bicentennial of the often overlooked war. Beginning Tuesday in New Orleans, and continuing through the summer in New York, Norfolk, Baltimore and Boston, tall ships and warships from around the world will parade through American ports. Read full article > >

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Can America wean its oil addiction by making mass transit free? New York Occupiers are suggesting precisely this. Mass transit Farebox revenue in New York, the nation’s largest mass transit hub, totals $4.5 billion a year, according to the city’s Mass Transit Authority. That’s a hefty number – until contrasted with U.S. taxpayer subsidies to the oil and gas industries of $41 billion a year. Just redirecting that subsidy would allow nine transit systems as big as New York’s to provide free ridership. And here’s the sweetener: Other transit systems are way smaller than America’s most populous city, so cities which could have free mass transit could number in the dozens. Think of it. Free transit in Chicago. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Atlanta. Boston. Washington D.C. Include your other favorite city(ies) here. What’s more, cutting off this cascade of federal dollars to the most profitable 1% of American industry would be popular. A recent Wall Street Journal-NBC poll found that three quarters of respondents favored”eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries” – a.k.a. cutting them off from the federal trough.

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Occupying the Subways

MOSCOW — The skies were sullen, the temperature freezing and the mood merry as the St. Patrick’s Day parade got underway Saturday, its 20th anniversary in Moscow. The Irish were everywhere, from Mansfield, Ohio (a Protestant chaplain in Moscow), Boston (an MIT professor starting a new university) and even Ireland (Philip McDonagh, the Irish ambassador). But the most ardent flag-wavers were hundreds upon hundreds of Russians, who share the Irish reverence for literature, love Irish music and apparently find few other opportunities to put on a kilt. Read full article > >

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Moscow celebrates St. Patrick

In York, Pa., he speaks of his father living at the local YMCA. In front of Toledo autoworkers, he calls himself the “son of an automobile man.” In Media, Pa., he is the “grandson of Ambrose Finnegan,” a Scranton ad man turned gas company worker. But he is also the great-grandson, on his mother’s side, of Edward F. Blewitt, a member of the Pennsylvania state Senate. On his paternal side, he is connected to Maryland through a great-great grandfather who sold produce and a grandfather whose transition from Baltimore kerosene salesman to Wilmington oil executive earned the family a temporary taste of wealth. His family was rich in Boston, comfortable in Long Island and broke in Scranton. One relative died in World War II, and another, “Old Man Sheen,” ran shipyards in Virginia. Read full article > >

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Joe Biden: Digging back into his roots to move Obama forward

Nerlens Noel is a 6-foot-10 basketball star considered the best prospect from the Boston area since Patrick Ewing and is hailed as the best shot blocker of his generation.

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Everybody Wants a Piece of Nerlens Noel

The District has one of the highest levels of income inequality among the nation’s cities, with the top fifth earning on average 29 times the income of the bottom fifth. Only Atlanta and Boston showed higher levels of income inequality in 2010, according to an analysis of census data by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute. Read full article > >

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Income inequality gap in D.C. one of nation’s widest

The year-end results are in from Boston Beer Co ., America’s largest craft brewer. Core volume was 2.5 million barrels, putting the makers of the Samuel Adams line neck-and-neck with Yuengling for the title of the country’s largest domestically owned brewer. Read full article > >

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Boston Beer Co. continues record growth