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Patrick plans to eliminate toll collectors

The state is seeking to build a $100 million toll system that would be entirely electronic, Governor Patrick said today.

Judge replaces juror in Mattapan murder case

The judge discharged a juror after learning the juror had done ballistics research online and shared it.

Joy Griffin, 78, a retired teacher, lives at Linden Ponds in Hingham. “They went through so much more than I did,” Griffith says of older lesbians. “I was right on the edge where progress was made.”

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Learning how to care for LGBT seniors

A growing population of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered seniors face challenges different from their straight peers.

Christopher L. Gasper

Texans must prove themselves vs. Patriots

While the Patriots are looking for affirmation of their defensive improvement, the Texans are playing for the validation of their franchise.

Patriots defensive backs Kyle Arrington, left, and Aqib Talib could be under fire against a high-powered Texans offense.

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Texans at Patriots, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

Patriots’ keys to a win vs. Texans

The Patriots host the team with the NFL’s best record in Houston (11-1), and Jim McBride has the keys to the gameplan in his scouting report.

A wind turbine in Fall River.

Opinion | The Podium

Getting serious about the clean energy revolution

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative can help lower emissions, but only if we have the political will, writes Berl Hartman of the N.E. chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs.

Justice in the Shadows | Part 2

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With rights lacking, even for those with no record of crime, immigrants languish as pawns in a law enforcement system that is defined by secrecy.

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Marilyn Riseman has rubbed elbows with the connected since her youth.

Marilyn Riseman central to Boston’s chic society

Diversity Boston Roundtable

Boston diversity status check
Director Peter Jackson.

‘The Hobbit’ emerges

Meet the Fall All-Scholastics
Matt Schaub and the Texans enter Monday’s game with an 11-1 record.

Dan Shaughnessy

Texans have no chance
“There is a growing group of folks who are looking at this and realizing we don’t have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year’s end,” Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker said.

Hopes rise for a deal on tax rates
AnnMarie Duchon challenged pay inequity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Mass. lags on pay for women in the US

How to donate to Globe Santa
Ethan Gagnon, a student at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, used a digital Braille typewriter.

Braille gets a digital update
Joy Griffin, 78, a retired teacher, lives at Linden Ponds in Hingham. “They went through so much more than I did,” Griffith says of older lesbians. “I was right on the edge where progress was made.”

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Learning how to care for LGBT seniors
Above: Jessica Chastain in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Boston film critics pick ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ as year’s best

Holiday gift guide

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Tom Brady is a ‘MNF’ superstar

Brady, with a 12-4 career record, is one of the all-time best in Monday Night Football contests. Take a look at his history on Mondays.

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“We prayed for her all along,’’ said the Rev. Miniard Culpepper about Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren during an hourlong prayer session service for her Sunday evening at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Dorchester.

Black clergy give Warren prayerful Senate send-off

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren asked the city’s black ministers and church members to pray for her as she heads to Washington, D.C.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Qatar arms deals expose limits of US

Tech Lab Plus

Cheap Nikon Coolpix takes classy shots
Matt Schaub and the Texans enter Monday’s game with an 11-1 record.

Dan Shaughnessy

Texans have no chance

Adrian Walker

Worthy battle ends in victory

Palestinian construction workers in the Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, overlooking the area known as E-1 where Israel intends to build thousands of housing units.

James Carroll

Israel undermines its standing
CyPhy Works says its drones can’t be jammed by an enemy.

Innovation Economy

SolidWorks team reunites for new venture
Shohreh Moldenhauer and her son, Robert, at Children’s Hospital.

Kevin Cullen

A miracle story that needs just one more

Joan Vennochi

The Kevin White legacy after release of FBI files

Jeff Jacoby

Powerball’s other big winner: the taxman

Christopher L. Gasper

Texans must prove themselves against Patriots

Yvonne Abraham

Ban tackle football for players under 14

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Nafissatou Diallo (center) had Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault.

Strauss-Kahn, hotel maid settle lawsuit

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn settled a New York City maid’s sexual-assault lawsuit for an undisclosed sum, a judge said.

Politics

Union workers chanted at a demonstration in the Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., on Thursday. The crowd walked in during lawmakers’ debate of the right-to work bill.

Organized labor plans right-to-work offensive

Democrats and organized labor intend to make enactment of right-to-work laws as uncomfortable as possible.

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Ethan Gagnon, a student at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, used a digital Braille typewriter.

Braille typewriters get a digital-era update

The Smart Brailler has a computer screen and a text-to-speech feature to help the blind master a tool they may need to find a job.

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In “Dora: A Headcase,” Lidia Yuknavitch gives voice to a Freud patient who famously couldn’t speak, and presents her as a radical everywoman.

‘Dora: A Headcase’ by Lidia Yuknavitch

Yuknavitch gives voice to a teenage Freud patient who famously couldn’t speak, and presents her as a radical everywoman.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Are e-visits coming to a doctor near you?

Intermountain Healthcare is testing virtual health care visits, in which patients chat with a doctor from their iPhone or laptop.

Diversity Boston

Diversity Boston

Left to right: Tenneh Sesay, Mussuba Samati, Shanae Saddler, Penda Seck, Shanique Lewis, Alexandra Zuluaga, Makiz Nasirahmad, Ieisha Sampson, and La’Neece Byrd.

Teen perspectives on race and ethnicity

Young writers give their thoughts on whether divisions still exist based on skin color or ethnicity and whether discrimination is a factor in their lives.

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The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?
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5 inspired rooms
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Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter
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7 holiday styles that shine

Opinion

“The batterers don’t care about citizenship or sexual orientation when they terrorize their partners. Neither should Congress.”

Renée Loth on Congress stripping the Violence Against Women bill of protections for gays and immigrants.

Ideas

“Gift-giving has long been a topic of fascination for experts on human behavior...Their work has produced insights that cast an analytical--and helpful--light on the trials of our yearly quest to delight family and friends.”

Leon Neyfakh on the analyzed gift 

“I was just working. I wasn’t trying to go out there and have everything. I was just trying to live, day by day.”

Luz Tamayo, 28,  an illegal immigrant facing possible deportation