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Rod Carew needs a new heart

Rod Carew needs a new heart

Rod Carew is 70, a fact that's a cold bucket of water in the face for baseball fans who idolized the Minnesota Twins and California Angels hitter, one of the best pure hitters in the history of baseball. So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that his health is in peril, and yet it does.
by Bob Collins

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How are we going to survive Thanksgiving dinner?

Here's the Saturday Night Live skit that we talked about on The Current's Morning Show this morning.
by Bob Collins

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What makes a college ‘worth the money’?

A survey by a website that evaluates higher education choices has listed an area college on its list of colleges that aren't worth the money.
by Bob Collins

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The Christmas lights go out in New Richland

There's always that one home in many towns that's the must-see Christmas lights house. The newfangled computer-controlled lighting displays are now match for a guy who started with one display and then got carried away in an ongoing effort to make some people happy.
by Bob Collins

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The graying of the NPR crowd

The graying of the NPR crowd

The Washington Post says there's gnashing of teeth at NPR because of a problem that's been developing since it started on Feb. 26, 1970 -- people are aging.
by Bob Collins

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City hockey is a lost cause

What is happening to the state of hockey when a high school doesn't have enough players to put a team on the ice?
by Bob Collins

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New weapon in fight against terrorists: Kittens

The police in Brussels didn't find what they were looking for when they staged a series of raids looking for Salah Abdeslam, suspected to be one of the gunmen in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.
by Bob Collins

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And now, the National (hic!) Anthem

The temperature was in the teens with heavy frost in the metro today. There’s a blanket of snow in southern sections. So what we need is the sight of green grass and baseball. The hiccups are a bonus. (h/t: Ben Chorn)
by Bob Collins

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Fear dominating the home of the brave

The fact that a pizza shop owner was pulled from a flight at Midway Airport in Chicago because he was speaking Arabic, and that made another passenger nervous, isn't even the most surprising thing about the incident this week. We've heard it before and it's hardly surprising that we haven't evolved. It's the utter lack of logical thought that goes with the utter lack of logical thought.
by Bob Collins

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