NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music stars and fans joined together to urge prayers for Randy Travis on Thursday after he underwent brain surgery following a stroke at a Texas hospital. Travis remained in critical condition Thursday after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain Wednesday night, publicist Kirt Webster said. The 54-year-old Grammy Award-winning singer […]
2013
Posted inNation & World
Egypt’s Islamists digging in for long-term protests
CAIRO – Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Friday in cities across Egypt, vowing to sustain for months their campaign to restore deposed President Mohammed Morsi to power. Ten days after the military coup that toppled him, however, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its allies appear to have failed to bring a significantly wider segment of […]
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Alien planet’s color detected for first time
LONDON – Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside our solar system, a blue gas giant 63 light-years away. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team said the planet known as HD 189733B would look like a deep blue dot if viewed up close. While Earth […]
Posted inLife & Culture, Religion and Values
Reflections: God answers our prayers, but in ways we can’t begin to envision
Off-handedly, I am not sure how to measure my own prayer experience. Still, I do pray, confessing a “compass in my being” — steadying me with the conviction that Something of Ultimate Significance in the Universe…a Shadowy-Unknowable underlying creation…yet intimately acquainted with me…wills from me a reply. Christianly, I am persuaded by Jesus’ words, “Ask, […]
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Religion Calendar
Saturday Yard and bake sale with cookout, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., First Congregational Church, 167 Black Point Road, Scarborough. Craft and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., North Sebago Methodist Church, Route 114, North Sebago. Anniversary Mass, 6 p.m., celebrating the 40th anniversary of the ordination of Monsignor Michael Henchal, pastor of St. […]
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The Humble Farmer: To those compelled to help, whether it’s needed or not
The real heroes are people who admit they know nothing about whatever it is you’re trying to repair.
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Maine Voices: Rail transportation of hazardous materials is ‘a necessary evil’
Railroads move dangerous substances daily though populated areas, and they mostly ‘do it well.’
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Grief in Quebec as four more bodies discovered
Meanwhile, investigators look into which brakes were set before the locomotive and 72 tankers began rolling down a slope for seven miles.
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MIT acoustics pioneer Bose dies at 83
Amar Bose founded Bose Corp., a company known for the rich sound of its small tabletop radios and its noise-canceling headphones.
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Sweet nostalgia! Twinkies return to Maine, elsewhere
The iconic snack of the baby-boom generation arrives gradually in Maine stores, seven months after they disappeared.