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Photos: Explore the 'World's Largest' across Minnesota

Photos: Explore the 'World's Largest' across Minnesota

Minnesota set a world record for largest paper ball recently, but Minnesota has long been host to many "world's largest" objects -- both official and self-proclaimed.

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Put on that coat! How to stay warm in subzero weather

Put on that coat! How to stay warm in subzero weather

Heading outdoors this week? Here are some tips to stay comfortable. And yes: It's pretty much what your mom told you.
by Nancy Yang

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Before the Internet, librarians would 'answer everything' -- and still do

Before the Internet, librarians would 'answer everything' -- and still do

The New York Public Library recently found a box of questions posed to the library from the 1940s to the '80s -- an era when humans consulted other humans for answers to their everyday questions.

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Women lead whiskey renaissance as distillers and new tipplers

Women lead whiskey renaissance as distillers and new tipplers

In the '90s, about 15 percent of whiskey drinkers were female. Now, according to Fred Minnick, author of Whiskey Women, women represent 37 percent of whiskey imbibers in the United States.
by Allison Aubrey

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Appeal of Airstream trailers endures

Appeal of Airstream trailers endures

The people who assemble those retro-looking Airstream campers at an Ohio factory can't build them fast enough these days to meet the demand.
by The Associated Press

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Appetites: Six tips for foolproof eggnog

Appetites: Six tips for foolproof eggnog

Amy Thielen, author of "The New Midwestern Table" and host of "Heartland Table" on the Food Network, shares her suggestions for excellent eggnog.
by Tom Crann

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Letters deliver annual tidings of joy, busyness

Letters deliver annual tidings of joy, busyness

Personal tidings from around the globe arrive in Fargo, North Dakota, each year where a communications professor eagerly receives them. Ann Burnett has collected holiday letters for about 15 years and counting.
by Ann Arbor Miller

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Eggs not always what they're cracked up to be

Egg cartons are often plastered with an array of terms that can confuse and even mislead consumers. Be a smart and informed egg buyer.
by Anders Kelto

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Yule have to try this gingerbread buche de Noel

Yule have to try this gingerbread buche de Noel

The recipe, Dorie Greenspan says, is an "ooh and ahh" dessert that's "just as good as birthday cake."

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