Pope Benedict says a weakened appreciation for marriage between man and woman has contributed to “grave social problems bearing an immense human and economic cost.”
March 2012
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New England braces for winter moth surge
Winter moths can cause massive defoliation, and have already been detected in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
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Solar storm not nearly as bad as could have been
When the storm finally arrived around 6 a.m. EST Thursday, after traveling at 2.7 million mph, it was more a magnetic breeze than a gale.
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In city where dogs run wild, no-kill shelter takes action
Detroit residents are abandoning their dogs because they can’t afford to keep them, creating “a homeless epidemic of these animals.”
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Survey ranks Google highly despite privacy fears
83 percent of the respondents rate Google as their preferred search engine – up from 47 percent in 2004
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Strong 3 months of hiring as US adds 277,000 jobs
Since the beginning of December, the country has added 734,000 jobs as the economy continues to gain strength.
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Bite mark was undoing of ex-policewoman in murder
There were no witnesses, no fingerprints, no gun and little forensic evidence when a woman was found slain 26 years ago. But there was a human bite mark on her arm — a bite that came back to haunt the killer.
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2 children found living in abandoned school bus
Child welfare agents in Texas are trying to unravel the story of a 5-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, whose home was a dilapidated vehicle at the end of a muddy, one-lane road.
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26 years later, LAPD detective convicted of cold-case murder
A quarter century after a woman’s murder, jurors took little more than a day to decide the killer was a former LAPD detective who was finally unmasked by her DNA.
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Robbery thwarted: Waldoboro bank locks doors on attempted robber
Employees of a Waldoboro bank prevented a robbery this week by spotting a suspicious man outside and quickly locking the bank’s doors so he couldn’t get in.