VATICAN CITY Pope denounces priests who question celibacy rule Pope Benedict XVI denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they were disobeying his authority to try to impose their own ideas on the church. Benedict made the rare and explicit criticism from the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica […]
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Nation Dispatches
LOS ANGELES Documentary on bullying gets new PG-13 rating The Weinstein Co. says the rating for the documentary “Bully” has been lowered from R to PG-13. The company announced Thursday that an edited version of the film will be released April 13 with a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA […]
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Narrower definition of autism proposed
Parents of mildly affected children worry that their kids will be left out and lose access to services.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor:Is Forefront project the right choice?
I was excited when I saw the renditions for the Thompson’s Point project in The Portland Press Herald on March 28. Then I started to look a little deeper. The plans include a 2,200-seat concert hall. Portland already has two such venues: Merrill Auditorium (1,900 seats) and the Portland Expo (1,904 seats). An 80,000-square-foot event […]
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Maine Voices: Pension tax cuts are fiscally irresponsible and poorly targeted
Under the changes, state revenues would decrease just as demand for services increases.
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Painkiller use around U.S. rises dramatically
Experts worry that the push to relieve patients’ suffering is leading to an addiction epidemic with few treatment options.
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Another View: Guns used in Massachusetts crimes are not a Maine problem
Maine’s traditions of gun ownership and self-defense give us our low crime rate.
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Google glasses put Web an eyelash away
The prototype offers numerous useful functions but also raises questions of safety and privacy.
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Another View: Feds should stop hogging the wireless spectrum
Rapidly increasing mobile data traffic requires government agencies to get out of the way.