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Video: The absurd portrayal of female athletes

Have you ever noticed when the Star Tribune takes a photograph of its all-metro high school sports teams, it poses boys differently than the girls?
by Bob Collins

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Twin Cities company saves a pilot in Arkansas

Cirrus, deservedly, is getting all of the credit for a happy ending in the sky yesterday, but BRS Aerospace, a company at South St. Paul's Fleming Field deserves a healthy share of it. They make the parachute system that saved a pilot's life.
by Bob Collins

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Where was everyone in yesterday’s election?

It's a bit hard to read the tea leaves this week on the subject of taxes, the new third-rail of politics in Minnesota and elsewhere.
by Bob Collins

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Detroit students serve homeless vets… as pallbearers

Detroit students serve homeless vets… as pallbearers

The University of Detroit Jesuit High School is providing homeless veterans something that the rest of the nation has refused to provide: a little respect. Unfortunately, they have to die to get it.
by Bob Collins

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Is there a good way to lay people off?

Gary Knell, the former boss of NPR who abruptly quit in 2013 because of an offer he couldn't refuse from National Geographic, might have set a new standard for clumsy layoff announcements. National Geographic is in the process of gutting its staff now that it's in the clutches of one Rupert Murdoch. The layoffs are underway today.
by Bob Collins

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We should all be more like millennials

This won't be the end of the discussion about what makes millennials different, but perhaps it should. A CNBC poll finds that, at least when it comes to work, millennials aren't much different, and there they are different, it's all to the good.
by Bob Collins

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Kimmel’s annual joke never gets old

Because what's the point of having kids if you can't make them miserable every now and again.
by Bob Collins

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Are we becoming less religious?

Are we becoming less religious?

The new Pew Research survey on religion in American life -- the first since 2007-- suggests the United States is becoming less religious. That's the headline anyway although it may overstate the shift from belief in god.
by Bob Collins

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Tree-stand mansions dot the forests

Tree-stand mansions dot the forests

Can you really call yourself a hunter if you have to sprawl in your deer-stand McMansion waiting for a buck to stroll by?
by Bob Collins

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A Timberwolves tribute to Flip

A Timberwolves tribute to Flip

Here's the video shown before tonight's Minnesota Timberwolves game honoring long-time coach Flip Saunders, who died last week of complications from cancer treatment.
by Bob Collins

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