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Fires continue burning in BWCA

Fires continue burning in BWCA

A fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the largest in years, continues to spread. It now threatens to force some property owners off their land.
by Bob Kelleher

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Hot weather fuels BWCA fire

Hot weather fuels BWCA fire

Gov. Tim Pawlenty travels to northeastern Minnesota Sunday to check on a fire that's burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

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Race and the hurricane

Race and the hurricane

In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush acknowledged that the disaster laid bare the persistent racial inequalities in America, but Bush strongly rejected the idea that the federal government's response to Katrina was somehow racist. Social critic Michael Eric Dyson was not convinced.

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Chernobyl's shadow

Chernobyl's shadow

It was 20 years ago that a nuclear reactor blew up at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in what became the worst nuclear disaster in world history. Even after two decades have passed, the health effects of Chernobyl are still a subject of debate.

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The journalistic response to Hurricane Katrina

The journalistic response to Hurricane Katrina

The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes recognized two Gulf Coast newspapers for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina, but National Public Radio's Michele Norris says that not all the journalism that came out of the storm was stellar.

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Red River still rising

People will be sandbagging and shoring up dikes Monday in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Gov. Pawlenty has called on 135 National Guard troops to help bolster flood preparations in that area as the Red River keeps rising. MPR's Bob Reha updates the situation from Moorhead.

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Bird Flu - Come fly away

Bird Flu - Come fly away

The H5N1 virus has killed people in seven countries and infected birds in more than 40 nations. Reporter Nikki Tundel freaks out host and self-proclaimed hypochondriac Mary Lucia with the latest update on the bird flu.

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Residents debate the future of New Orleans

New Orleans' population is growing again, due to the return of most of Tulane University's student body. But some criticize the rebuilding plan for the rest of the city as discriminatory against the city's poorer, African-American residents.

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Hurricane Katrina: a look back

One of the biggest stories of 2005 was undoubtedly Hurricane Katrina. And the story continues as the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast rebuilds itself.

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