Parklets a work in progress after underwhelming debut
Gioivanny Valencia checked out the Jamaica Plain public parklet at 351 Centre St. in Hyde Square.

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Officials at the Boston Transportation Department plan to make the new minispaces more welcoming.

Marty Walsh, the mayor-elect, often doesn’t just skip the Y or the R in his new job title. He skips them both and says, “maeh.”

In Walsh, students of Bostonese have found their avatah

Martin Walsh demonstrates what many believe to be the strongest Boston dialect in the city’s mayoral history.

JOANNA WEISS

Gun debate hate

The obstacle to a constructive conversation about guns is not a lack of public interest, ideas, and legal boundaries; it’s that the subject can’t be broached without people going insane.

The Patriots’ Stephen Gostkowski was a starter and reliever on Memphis’s baseball team.

Patriots at panthers | 8:40 p.m.

Patriots’ Gostkowski pulls from baseball experience

Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski was a starter and reliever on Memphis’s baseball team.

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Fans sought shelter in the concourse area at Soldier Field during a severe storm during the first half of the Ravens-Bears game.

2 are killed by tornado in Illinois

Two people died as intense tornadoes and storms swept across the Midwest, causing extensive damage and prompting officials to delay a football game in Chicago.

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, spoke at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

Mother of Trayvon Martin speaks at Cambridge church

Sybrina Fulton spoke at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church of the grief she felt after her son was killed.

Boston medical teams going to the aid of typhoon victims

Doctors and nurses from Boston hospitals have joined the disaster relief effort in the Philippines following last week’s devastating Typhoon Haiyan.

British novelist Doris Lessing was photographed sitting on the doorstep of her house after she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in London in this Oct. 11, 2007, file photograph.

Nobel author Doris Lessing dies at 94

Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction.

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JEFF JACOBY

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Thanks to the changes already produced by the marketplace, a significant addition to the Civil Rights Act is superfluous.

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Jehuda Reinharz, former president of Brandeis University, has remained among the highest paid people on campus.

Colleges may foot big bills as presidents leave
Some girls cooled off in the Sea of Galilee, Israel’s main source of fresh surface water, in July.

In Israel, water where there was none
Wade Davis at New York’s Penn Station, en route to a recent speaking engagement at which he promoted acceptance of LGBT athletes in sports.

Gay ex-player tackles inclusion
MIT professor Ofer Sharone hopes his research will result in an understanding of how long-term unemployment affects people.

Helping the long-term unemployed
Eli Manning is having one of the worst seasons of any quarterback this year, and is on pace for the worst year of his career.

Sunday Football Notes

Manning suffering through poor season
Lance Armstrong in

movies

Armstrong film went from redemption to ‘Lie’
Cory Scott, a child wrangler for photo and video shoots, says he is “like a jester, concierge, cheerleader, counselor, and facilitator, all in one.”

On the Job

He keeps the working kids amused

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50 years later: Wound is still fresh

Smackdown!

Outlet shopping: Freeport, Maine, vs. Manchester, Vt.
The 1400-year-old Hagia Sophia is a museum now.

Travel

Istanbul: A world of spirits

The first significant change to Boston’s floop maps in decades would affect the Institute of Contemporary Art, which moved to this building in the Seaport District in 2006.

New flood map reaches deep into city

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Overview

Appreciation more important than pay, employees say

Each year, Massachusetts workers rank being appreciated as a key factor that determines how they feel about their jobs.

Sports

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Bills linebacker Manny Lawson chased Jets quarterback Geno Smith.

Bills force four turnovers, defeat Jets

The Bills intercepted the Jets three times and recovered a fumble as they stopped a three-game losing streak.

Metro

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Carlos Arredondo stood and cheered at the start of the Red Sox World Series parade at Fenway Park. He has become the face of Boston Strong.

Full-time role for Boston’s ‘comforter-in-chief’

Carlos Arredondo leapt into the fray on Marathon Day, and hasn’t stopped since.

Columnists

JOANNA WEISS

Gun debate hate

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Championing 2004 Sox’ claim as favorites

JOAN VENNOCHI

Pressure is on the Gaming Commission

Bob Ryan

The inherent conflict of football
It’s easy to see why Martha Coakley would make a good candidate for governor, Yvonne Abraham writes, thus making her campaign missteps all the more mystifying.

Yvonne Abraham

Unforced errors from Martha Coakley
It will be interesting to see if Michael Astrue can transform InVivo from a company fueled by hype to one focused on demonstrating effectiveness in humans.

Innovation Economy

Can InVivo live up to its hype?
A pedestrian passed in front of the Olympic rings up the street from Turner Field, which originally opened as the 85,000-seat main stadium for the 1996 Olympics.

Derrick Z. Jackson

An Olympic-size illusion

kevin cullen

Restraint gives way to humanity
President Obama.

SCOT LEHIGH

Is Obama up to saving his health law?

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom has software controls that are almost as advanced as those on a pro camera. You can fiddle with aperture, white balance, color temperature, and shutter speed.

Tech Lab

Sharper options for phone photos
Moving the whole Suffolk Downs casino project to its Revere property to get around East Boston’s opposition, shown by residents above, is legal. But that doesn’t make it right, writes Yvonne Abraham.

Yvonne Abraham

Hedging their bet at Suffolk Downs
Construction at the Filene's block downtown.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Fix the BRA; don’t break it

Nation & World

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John Lajara sorted through debris to find wood to rebuild his house in Tacloban, Philippines. He also has been searching for the body of his missing brother, Winston.

Hunt for missing in Philippines grinds on

The search for the missing— 1,179 by official count — has become a horrific daily activity for some.

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Rosemarie Sansone, president, downtown Business Improvement District.

Helping downtown business district get its groove back

As head of the downtown Business Improvement District, Rosemarie Sansone helps plan improvements.

Arts

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Dance Review

The Stephen Petronio Dance Company performs “Like Lazarus Did.”

Energy level rises and falls in ‘Lazarus’

Stephen Petronio Company’s “Like Lazarus Did” loosely explores ideas of birth, death, and resurrection.

Travel

The Old Constitution House in Windsor was originally a tavern.

Stories to tell: Vermont’s African American Heritage Trail

The Heritage Trail comprises 11 sites including nine museums with exhibits featuring video, audio, and guided, or self-guided, tours.

Books

Book review

‘The Valley of Amazement’ by Amy Tan

Tan’s intense and unsentimental new novel is akin to her breakthrough 1989 first novel, “The Joy Luck Club.”

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The Burroughs Newsboys Foundation was founded by Harry E. Burroughs to give Boston’s newsboys life experiences that would give them a better future.

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The state of extramarital affairs
The cover for the November 10 2013 issue

Just the right kind of cold
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Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
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A First Period home gets a second life

Ideas

“Researchers believe there’s something uniquely and inherently difficult about the in-law relationship itself — as one psychologist put it, ‘The problem is really structural.’”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the weird science of in-laws