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Women gave public radio its ‘sound’

Women gave public radio its ‘sound’

Deep in the recesses of the World Headquarters of NewsCut, there is a picture on a wall of the original employees of Minnesota Public Radio. Young Garrison Keillor, Michael Barone, and Gary Eichten standing with three others. All of them were men. That's the way radio was back then. Men. It wasn't a place for diversity.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: A pause during war

1,000 Words: A pause during war

This picture from Aleppo has the world paying attention again. Photography can do that.
by Bob Collins

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You have to stand for something

You have to stand for something

Jerilynn Huber didn't have a prayer of succeeding in her protest, but at least she stood for something, or climbed for something.
by Bob Collins

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Family in viral BBC interview sets the record straight

Family in viral BBC interview sets the record straight

Robert Kelly wants you to know he loves his kids and he wasn't mad at them for making him into an Internet sensation.
by Bob Collins

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Couple aims to be first to hike Appalachian Trail with 1-year-old

Couple aims to be first to hike Appalachian Trail with 1-year-old

Bekah and Derrick Quirin intend to walk the entire 2,200-mile trail starting next week with their 1-year-old baby. They figure it might even be easier than staying home.
by Bob Collins

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The Totenberg violin returns to the stage

The Totenberg violin returns to the stage

It's unusual to read a story by NPR's Nina Totenberg that doesn't involve the U.S. Supreme Court; this one involves a violin. But Totenberg has a personal connection to the violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734. It was stolen from her father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, 38 years ago before it was recovered in 2015.
by Bob Collins

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What it’s like to kill someone with your car

For 20 years, Shane Snowdon didn't say much about what happened in 1997. Snowdon, a Cambridge, Mass., resident, has broken the silence now after reading a headline.
by Bob Collins

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When life gives you toads, make toad hats

When life gives you toads, make toad hats

Chris Newsome, of Jacksonville, Alabama, didn't think much of the toad on his porch one evening. But when it returned the next night, he figured it could use a little dressing up. Newsome likes hats, so he made a hat for the toad.
by Bob Collins

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After airborne crash, man makes himself at home in Alexandria

Apparently, locking your doors at night isn't a big thing in Alexandria, Minn. But after the Alexandria Echo Press story about a man who drove his car off an embankment, flew over 210 feet of open water, and came to rest on the ice of Lake L'Homme Dieu, it might not be a bad idea.
by Bob Collins

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Make no mistake, Iowans love their racist congressman

Make no mistake, Iowans love their racist congressman

Iowa Republican U.S. House Rep. Steve King isn't a newcomer to racist and bigoted comments. Yet won his last election with 64 percent of the vote.
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