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Patriots lose heartbreaker in Foxborough

The loss in a home opener was the first for the Patriots since 2001 and happened after Stephen Gostkowski missed a field goal with six seconds left.

Cardinals players celebrated as the Patriots’ last-second field goal sailed wide.

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Cardinals players celebrated as the Patriots’ last-second field goal sailed wide.

Tom Brady walked off the field at the end of the game.

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Tom Brady walked off the field at the end of the game.

Brady argued with referees in the fourth quarter.

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Brady argued with referees in the fourth quarter.

Tom Brady directed his troops in the first quarter.

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Tom Brady directed his troops in the first quarter.

Aaron Hernandez held his lower right leg after a first-quarter injury.

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Aaron Hernandez held his lower right leg after a first-quarter injury.

Brady looked for an open receiver in the first quarter.

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Brady looked for an open receiver.

Cardinals linebacker Paris Lenon tackled running back Stevan Ridley.

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Cardinals linebacker Paris Lenon tackled running back Stevan Ridley.

Brady conferred with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels on the sideline.

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Brady conferred with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels on the sideline.

Kevin Kolb of the Cardinals felt pressure from Chandler Jones.

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Kevin Kolb of the Cardinals felt pressure from Chandler Jones.

Kolb fumbled into the hands of Patriots safety Tavon Wilson after being tackled by Chandler Jones and Rob Ninkovich.

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Kolb fumbled into the hands of Patriots safety Tavon Wilson after being tackled by Chandler Jones and Rob Ninkovich.

Casey Chamberlain contracted anthrax in 2001 after opening a letter to Tom Brokaw while she was working at NBC.

Struggles remain for victim of anthrax attack

Casey Chamberlain wants people to remember that there were two sets of terrorist victims: those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, and those infected soon after with anthrax.

Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician who lives in Newburyport, has written a memoir about the accident that injured her son Neil Bornstein, now 27, and killed his girlfriend.

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After the crash

In 2003, Newburyport teenager Neil Bornstein suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident that killed his girlfriend. His mother tells the journey the entire family took.

Jacoby Ellsbury batted against the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

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Red Sox are blanked in Toronto

Jon Lester went seven innings, but was tagged for three runs in the seventh as the Red Sox failed to sweep the Blue Jays.

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Warren leads Brown by six points in new poll

The poll suggests a possible bump for the Democratic candidate following the two parties’ conventions.

Elizabeth Warren greeted Keith Lombard and his daughter, Saoirse, at the South Boston Street Festival.

Warren’s extended family split about heritage

Elizabeth Warren has never fully explained her assertion of Native American ancestry, and the Senate candidate’s extended family has mixed opinions on the question.

4 US troops killed by Afghan police officer

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Privacy is the price for lowering car insurance

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America’s first lighthouse guided vessels entering Boston Harbor from Sept. 14, 1716, and the lighthouse on Little Brewster Island was the last to be automated, in 1998.

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On board his Alicia Ann, Greg Walinski (left) said, “we don’t want sharks being killed only for their fins, but we aren’t doing that.”

Shark fin bans ensnare New England fishermen
NHL fans through the decades have become such enablers that they have, through their loyalty and/or addiction, shaped the thinking of Jeremy Jacobs and the other owners.

Sunday Hockey Notes

NHL sides must realize they’re in it together

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Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III completed 19 of 26 passes (73.1 percent) for 320 yards and two touchdowns, for a quarterback rating of 139.9.

Sunday Football Notes

Teams making QBs more successful by tailoring
As a point guard, Rajon Rondo is used to toting the basketball, but he wasn’t averse to heavier lifting during his one-week unpaid internship.

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Henry Cipolla (right), Lee Isensee (left), and Mohit Dilawari work at DogPatch Labs incubator in Cambridge on a start-up called Localytics.

Tech incubators taking root around Boston area

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Jukebox repair shop brings back memories of happy days

Style on the Street > For the Guys

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movies

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‘A Wilderness of Error’ by Errol Morris
Chris Yang at the Tannery’s Boylston Street shop.

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Madison Park Technical High has mayoral support.

Boston innovation high school off to rough start

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Sunday Basketball Notes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, one of the greatest centers of all-time, a historian, author, and one of the handful of athletes from the 1960s generation undaunted by the consequences of being politically active.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more of an open book

More than 23 years after his retirement, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer opens up about his long-awaited statue and his place amongst socially active athletes.

Metro

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Wes Johnson was looking to hitch a ride in Monson to the trailhead.

A town that steps up on the Appalachian Trail

The residents of Monson, Maine, are famous up and down the trail for opening their homes, their cars, and their wallets to hikers in need.

Columnists

In the Middle East, where governments routinely disseminate anti-Semitic hatred, many who viewed the “Innocence of Muslims” assumed the low-budget clip had to be sanctioned by the US government.

Joanna Weiss

Bigotry, both fringe and state-sanctioned
Chicago teachers went on strike last week.

JEFF JACOBY

Just as intended, teacher strikes hurt families

Yvonne Abraham

Death masks put a face on history

Christopher L. Gasper

Boston fans still have it good with owners

JOAN VENNOCHI

Getting kids to day care safely

FARAH STOCKMAN

Syria: the Assad family business

Innovation Economy

Start-up bets robot will transform US factories

Beverly Beckham

Adrian Walker

Remembering Bruce Bolling, a Boston visionary

Joshua Green

When up means down
Some see bike paths as part of a conspiracy to produce a one-world government.

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Recycling, tree pruning, and other assaults on liberty

Scot Lehigh

The way to better schools is around unions

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Henry Cipolla (right), Lee Isensee (left), and Mohit Dilawari work at DogPatch Labs incubator in Cambridge on a start-up called Localytics.

Tech incubators taking root around area

A growing number of business accelerators and incubators that have sprouted in the Boston area in recent years, helping the latest generation of technology companies take wing.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama’s campaign spent about $6 million to buy airtime for the new ad in the key battleground states.

Obama makes fresh push on economy in key states

President Obama launched an aggressive new effort to convince voters in the most competitive states that Republican rival Mitt Romney is risky for the nation’s recovery.

Nation & World

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Steve Klein, a California salesman who has protested at mosques, was listed as promoter of the controversial film.

Few details on funds for anti-Islam movie

An ex-convict, an insurance salesman, and a Christian charity were behind the production of a crudely crafted film that ridicules Muslims and the prophet Mohammed.

Arts

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Harry Partch playing instruments of his own invention.

Celebrating ‘Harry Partch Legacy’

Harry Partch, the startlingly original 20th-century American composer, is the focus of a rare three-day festival this week.

Books

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David Byrne (center) and the Talking Heads perform in New York in 1977.

‘How Music Works’ by David Byrne

Talking Head tells what he knows.

Travel

David Silverman, founder of the National Pinball Museum, has collected over 900 machines.

National Pinball Museum becoming a Baltimore draw

Sure, the game may have had its heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, but it lives on in the basements of enthusiasts, and in one Baltimore museum.

“White folks did not want to be identified as Indian whether they were one-eighth or one-half. In a short time, the reverse happened.”

Jerry Bread,  of the University of Oklahoma

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Opinion

“The flip side of American strength is the notion that our government is in total control — that it can make anything happen, even a movie that’s embarrassingly bad.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Those who design tests understand them as a guess about the future. We’re probing for certain qualities that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what we should really test