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Photos: A walk through Mayo Clinic's healing art

Photos: A walk through Mayo Clinic's healing art

Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol and Alexander Calder never trained a doctor, performed surgery or cured a disease. But their art, on display around Mayo Clinic, still offers a kind of medicine.
by Catharine Richert

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Ann Patchett: 'Guess what, folks? We judge books by their covers'

Ann Patchett: 'Guess what, folks? We judge books by their covers'

Author Ann Patchett wrote her latest novel because she couldn't find any other book that captured "the big messiness that is modern family."
by MPR News Staff

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10 deaths, one day: A look at the youngest victims of gun violence

10 deaths, one day: A look at the youngest victims of gun violence

On average, seven children and teens are killed by guns each day in the U.S. Reporter Gary Younge picked one day -- Nov. 23, 2013 -- and profiled the ten boys who died on that date.
by MPR News Staff

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1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73

1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73

Pop singer Bobby Vee, who got his start in Moorhead, Minnesota when he was just 15, has died. He was 73.
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Out of this world: How artists imagine planets yet unseen

Out of this world: How artists imagine planets yet unseen

When astronomers spot a new planet that's too far away to be seen in detail, they work with artists to depict it. Space artists say they have a lot of freedom, but have to be careful, too.

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'Thrill Me' gets personal about life and writing

'Thrill Me' gets personal about life and writing

Writer Benjamin Percy has been on both sides of the divide between literary and genre fiction, and "Thrill Me" is both a meditation on the writing life and a passionate argument against that divide.
by Jason Heller

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Janet Jackson's first big hit album produced in Minneapolis

Janet Jackson's first big hit album produced in Minneapolis

"When I Think of You" was part of the phenomenal success of her breakthrough album "Control."

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Dreams do come true: Ruby slippers project passes $300K goal

Dreams do come true: Ruby slippers project passes $300K goal

The Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign last week to raise money to help preserve the slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas at the end of "The Wizard of Oz."
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Little Free Libraries robbed throughout Twin Cities

Little Free Libraries robbed throughout Twin Cities

While nobody knows yet who is behind the thefts and why, there has been speculation that the books are being stolen so they can be sold at local bookstores.
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