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June 1, 2012

Bidding slow for Iraq oil sites

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s government signed deals for only three of 12 oil and natural gas exploration sites offered in a two-day energy auction that ended Thursday, reflecting reluctance of foreign bidders to risk their money in unexplored areas. The auction was Iraq’s fourth since 2009 and was meant to attract foreign investment in the country’s […]
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June 1, 2012

People & EntertainmentMadonna brings show to Israel

JERUSALEM – Pop music star Madonna treated tens of thousands of ecstatic fans in Israel to the inaugural show of her “MDNA” world tour on Thursday, performing in a country where she has long claimed a special bond. The “Material Girl,” a devotee of a form of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah, danced, bumped, grinded […]
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June 1, 2012

Jobs recovery will speed up in Maine, says new forecast

Heavier hiring after 2012 will help jobs reach pre-recession levels by 2015, years earlier than predicted, analysts say.
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June 1, 2012

Dispatches

Scarcelli wins ruling over mother in housing dispute / Public art talk planned for tonight in Monument Square / Woman charged with stealing cemetery flowers . . . and more Maine news.
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June 1, 2012

Cruise ship arriving today as season opens

In all, 59 ships with up to 69,373 passengers are scheduled to visit in 2012.

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June 1, 2012

4 billion years till galactic smash-up

Don’t worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit — in 4 billion years. Astronomers in a NASA news conference Thursday said that years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope provide […]
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June 1, 2012

Maine Voices: On education, governor’s actions at odds with his words

The state's teachers hold out hope for a model in which excellence is recognized and rewarded.
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June 1, 2012

Election 2012: Hinck keys on workers, environment

Ninth in a series profiling the candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe. Jon Hinck was 24 and out of work in Seattle when a newspaper help-wanted ad caught his attention: “Sell advertising for a good cause.” The good cause was Greenpeace, a controversial environmental group that had emerged […]
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June 1, 2012

Another View: Egyptian election a historic milestone

But it's too soon to say whether it will be worthy of the revolution that made it possible.
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June 1, 2012

Another View: Experts don’t know court as well as ordinary Americans

Most people expect a result on the Affordable Care Act case based on politics, not precedent.