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For $20, high school kids develop life-saving drug

A group of 17-year-old students in Australia has illustrated the obscenity of the U.S. pharmaceutical market. The boys created the active ingredient in Daraprim, the anti-parasitic drug used by malaria and Aids patients, which a U.S. company is currently selling here for about $750 a pill.
by Bob Collins

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There will be baseball in the spring!

There will be baseball in the spring!

The possibility that Major League Baseball owners would lockout players, raising the possibility that baseball would not return in the spring, ended overnight with word that the owners and players have reached a new collective bargaining agreement.
by Bob Collins

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A crash course in double standards in political affairs

A crash course in double standards in political affairs

Amy Koch tells The Daily Beast today that she's spent a lot of time in the last few years reading about the kind of political scandals involving affairs to see who tends to come back from these sorts of things and who doesn't. Women usually don't.
by Bob Collins

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Big Mac inventor dies

James Delligatti has died and he probably accomplished a lot more in his 98 years other than making a burger, but nobody's going to be talking about that today because Delligatti invented the Big Mac.
by Bob Collins

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A reporter’s farewell

Another long-time scribe has left Minnesota journalism. Steve Brandt has covered Minneapolis neighborhoods, schools, and government since 1976 and if he doesn't hold the record for longevity at local newspapers, he's got to be close.
by Bob Collins

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In NPR interview, Ellison battles ‘lock her up’ politics

In NPR interview, Ellison battles ‘lock her up’ politics

But if there's one thing we've learned from the presidential campaign, if you call someone a duck online, whether it quacks or not is irrelevant. What Ellison is facing is the next phase of the 'lock her up' mentality that has taken control of the nation's political debate and the media that tries to cover it.
by Bob Collins

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At cross-country meet, winning is secondary to sportsmanship

At cross-country meet, winning is secondary to sportsmanship

KARE 11's Boyd Huppert confirmed anew a long-held personal observation I've had over the years of watching high school sports. If there's an act of sportsmanship, it probably comes from the track-and-field kids, and it probably involves a female athlete.
by Bob Collins

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A teacher takes her own life

A teacher takes her own life

At far too young of an age, students in Litchfield are learning a painful lesson about life: Sometimes, depression leads people to take their own life.
by Bob Collins

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In Moorhead, racism rides the bus

A Moorhead school bus driver has been fired after he abandoned about 20 students at an industrial park last week. This is one of those stories, however, that goes beyond the initial telling, which didn't include why a school bus driver would abandon middle school students in his care.
by Bob Collins

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In battle of art at the Capitol, a question of what history should prevail

In battle of art at the Capitol, a question of what history should prevail

What exactly is our history, anyway? If we don't show portraits of Native Americans giving away their territory, or brave Minnesotans fighting at Gettysburg, what's the alternative? What other of this state's history is worth displaying in such a public room as the Governor's Reception Room?
by Bob Collins

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