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ATLANTA -- Home Depot is going the way of retailers like Crate & Barrel and Macy's by offering an online gift registry, but will brides and grooms be eager to snap up miter saws or pressure washers? Industry observers see it as a way for the Atlanta-based company to enhance its relationship with customers, even if it isn't a boon for the bottom line. The initiative will be formally launched today. The home improvement chain says it is banking on its research showing that more people are getting married later in life, perhaps for a second time, and already have small appliances, fine china, and cutlery.

The white-shirted missionaries of "The Book of Mormon" are headed to Boston next year, hunting for converts to a brand of musical-comedy lunacy that has made the show a smash hit on Broadway, while Joey, the noble steed of "War Horse," will gallop into town this fall. The slate for the 2012-13 season announced Monday by Broadway in Boston also includes a pre-Broadway world-premiere musical, "Tuck Everlasting," adapted from Natalie Babbitt's beloved children's novel; productions of "Memphis" and "Sister Act"; and return engagements by "Wicked," "Jersey Boys," and "Mary Poppins," all of which performed strongly at the box office during previous stints here.

Need a new dishwasher that won't break the budget? You can pay as little as $500 to clean your grimiest dishes of baked-on food. More good news: Some premium features, such as hidden controls and half-load wash cycles, are migrating down to the $500-to-$600 range. All the models Consumer Reports recommended are energy- and water-efficient. Efficiency, however, doesn't matter if you can't trust what you are buying to last. In the magazine's annual reader survey, there was a spike in repairs of models from Amana and Maytag, two Whirlpool brands, largely due to a recall involving the electrical failure of heating elements.

ORLANDO — The books and movies have long since wrapped up the epic tale, with Voldemort vanquished, Snape lionized, and the young heroes sending their own children off to Hogwarts. But the specter of Harry Potter will continue to dominate the landscape of central Florida for years to come. "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter brought millions of new visitors to Orlando," said Robert Niles, editor of the consumer website Theme Park Insider. "What we're seeing now is a competitive moment, and the Orlando parks are all trying to take advantage of the momentum.

By Gary Dzen, Boston.com Staff PHILADELPHIA -- Celtics coach Doc Rivers looked frustrated but not defeated after the Celtics lost Game 4, 92-83, Friday night. "I thought they came out and became more physical, and I thought we got into that instead of playing basketball," said Rivers. "I thought in the first half the execution was beautiful. We did all the right things. In the second half we just didn't do it. " The Sixers had 17 offensive rebounds to five for the Celtics.

At one point during her ecstatic performance Friday night at the Bank of America Pavilion, Donna Summer confessed she was a big fan of the original series of iPod commercials where silhouetted dancers rocked out with wild abandon. “That’s the way music makes me feel inside,’’ she said. It seemed clear that, thanks to Summer, the near-capacity crowd knew exactly what she meant. With the aid of a nine-piece band and three dancers, Summer took a 95-minute tour of her big-beat, hit-packed catalog and handily defended her “queen of disco’’ crown.

The Red Sox have released the schedule for 2012. Highlights include an April 20 matchup with the Yankees on the 100th anniversary of the first Red Sox game at Fenway Park. The Red Sox open the season at Detroit April 5, and play their home opener April 13 against the Rays. They will face the Phillies, Nationals, Marlins, Braves, and Cubs in interleague games. Click the image above to see a high-resolution image of the schedule.

I assumed I had seen it all with Liberty Mutual. Once you learn about the chief executive's $50 million-a-year compensation package, the fleet of corporate jets, the $90,000 flights to Hawaii, the tens of millions of dollars for senior managers, the board of directors that doesn't feel the need to utter one public word of explanation, what more can there be? But as we've seen, there's always more, a fact that was never more apparent than when I was flipping through a mound of permit applications, building records, and engineering drawings on file in the Boston Inspectional Services Department describing a construction project the company undertook last year.

Massachusetts General Hospital in the next few weeks will launch a large, long-awaited test of whether a controversial cutting-edge proton beam therapy is more effective than standard radiation treatment for prostate cancer. Proton beam therapy, a targeted and controlled way to administer radiation to a tumor, has become a flashpoint in the debate over health care reform. The expensive therapy is being used across the country and in some cases advertised directly to the general public before it has been deemed superior to standard radiation treatment, which costs about half as much.

The doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death has asked a judge to sequester jurors in the physician's upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial, citing coverage of the Casey Anthony case and the threat of information leaks on social media. The filing Thursday by attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray said information from those sources could interfere with the right of Dr. Conrad Murray to receive a fair trial. It cited the increased ratings for HLN and commentator Nancy Grace, who featured the Anthony case on her show on a nightly basis and believed Anthony was guilty.

WHO Dr. Jordan Smoller WHAT Smoller, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has just written a book called "The Other Side of Normal. " Q. You write in your book that psychiatrists are just starting to try to understand what it means to have "normal" mental health. Why is it important to understand normalcy? A. The biology of normal teaches us about both our everyday life and also mental illness.

The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy's grieving family faced off in court Friday over custody of her body, just hours before she was mourned at a wake at the estate where she committed suicide. Details of the legal dispute were sealed by a judge, but it came as the Kennedy and Richardson families were finalizing arrangements for separate memorial services for the 52-year-old architect and environmentalist, who hanged herself Wednesday. Mary and Robert Kennedy had been going through a lengthy, contested divorce.

The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations designed to reduce the number of inmates who suffer sexual victimization at the hands of other prisoners and prison staff. Anti-rape advocates and victims of prison rape, while saying the standards are not perfect, cheered the new regulations. The rules have been under development since Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003 to fight rape and sexual victimization in the nation's prisons, jails and halfway houses.