After an explosion in Iraq takes all his limbs, a soldier receives a rare double arm transplant.
2013
Posted inOpinion
David Ignatius: President Eisenhower’s 1956 Suez Canal crisis has its parallels today
His efforts to maintain an independent U.S. policy and avoid war are echoed in Chuck Hagel’s ideas.
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Posted inBusiness
Manufactured-goods orders jumped in December
Economists are encouraged, despite weak numbers in a category used to gauge business investment plans.
Posted inOpinion
Kathleen Parker: Facts show that ground combat is no place for women
Attacking the enemy requires physical and emotional capacities that women just don’t have.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Climate change deniers ignore proof of a rapidly heating planet
Eventually, the government will have to do something to respond to a man-made disaster.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voice: Time to smash the brass ceiling that thwarts servicewomen’s progress
Lifting the combat ban will allow women more chance to advance and reduce sexual harassment.
Posted inNews
New England Dispatches
Hundreds flee as blast fills Mass. building with smoke / U.S. suspects Rhode Island of violating disabilities act / Food sellers say Mass. college’s policies hurting business … and more news from around the region.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: City is right to question fire department’s size
Portland has more firefighters per capita than similar cities in the region, a study shows.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Girls’ Basketball Notebook: A year after going 0-16, Hyde ‘starts fresh’ at 13-0
Richard Polgar, the first-year girls’ basketball coach at the Hyde School in Bath, knew he had some rebuilding to do. The Phoenix had won only three games the previous two seasons, including an 0-16 mark in 2011-12. Beyond that, he said, “I didn’t want to hear or know much about last year. As I told […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the Editor: New prison won’t address crime’s causes
I sincerely hope that we do not build an expensive, new and bigger prison in Windham. True, the Maine Correctional Center is a hodgepodge of buildings, of which only two are relatively modern. However, simply to replace a prison without rethinking our addiction to warehousing people as our response to crime is recklessly foolish. Research […]